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Buzzing is BEE-lieving
Students investigate insects. In this insect lesson, students explore various insect models and identify the characteristics of each. Students observe insects outside and tally how many insects they observe.
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Plan, Do, Review...What's Bugging You?
Learners explore insects through literacy, In this literacy lesson plan, students discover the characteristics of ladybugs and gain information from the text, "The Grouchy Ladybug". Learners go on a "bug hunt".
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The World's Smallest Animals
Young scholars create instruments to capture different types of insects. In this The Greatest Show on Earth: The World's Smallest Animals instructional activity, students compare the attributes of certain insects and record the data on a...
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Classifying Plants and Insects
Art and science come together in a instructional activity based on Flower Still Life by Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder. Learners classify plants and insects in the painting by color, leaf shape, size, reproduction,...
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Insect Inquiries
Students explore the topic of insects. In this biology lesson plan, students develop a curiosity about the insect world. Students will collect and observe insects native to the area.
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The Magic School Bus in a Beehive
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students dance the Honey-Bee-Bop to communicate the location of hidden flowers.
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The Magic School Bus Gets Ants in Its Pants
Young scholars learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students observe ants doing some tasks by making them a temporary indoor home.
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Activity Plan 5-6: Bugs, Bugs, Bugs!
Students become entomologists for a day. In this life science lesson, students go on an insect hunt and investigate insects and their homes. This leads to the creation of an insect by each student. Lesson includes a take-home activity...
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Arthropod Coloring
In this arthropod worksheet, students compare and contrast the different animals found in the Phylum Arthropoda: insects, arachnids, and crustaceans. Students complete 8 fill in the blank statements and color illustrations.
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Arthropod Rhymes
In this arthropods worksheet, students read rhymes about arthropods and use the science terms they have learned to answer the question following the rhyme. This worksheet has 12 fill in the blank questions.
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Interesting Insects
In this insects worksheet, students read about insects and then answer the 10 questions pertaining to what they just learned. The answers are on the last page.
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Bugs Worksheet - What Bugs Do
In this bug themed worksheet, students will examine seven bugs and seven descriptions and then determine which bug matches each description.
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A Bug's Life
In this biology worksheet, learners create a presentation for a museum about the children they encounter during their journey as an insect. They identify the types of food the insect eats and its habitat. Students also describe their...
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Birds & Caterpillars
In this biology worksheet, students explain the use of camouflage as a defense mechanism. Then they list examples of insects that use camouflage to protect them from predators. Students also identify and name other types of defense...
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Insect Report
In this insect report planning worksheet, students choose an insect, research facts, and begin to write a report. Students draw a diagram of its life cycle.
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Inventing Insects
Students explore the world of insects and discover what it might be like to live like one. They create an insect with physical characteristics and demonstrate how it moves. Students also compare and contrast insects to spiders and how...
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The Insect World
Middle schoolers investigate how insects communicate since they cannot use their mouths for producing sound like humans can. In small groups, they devise a way to make an insect-like sound using body parts other than their mouths or...
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Creepy, Crawly Critters
Students study characteristics of insects by creating models from an assortment of materials. They create rubrics showing what an insect must have and create an insect, using a bag of materials. They cut out the puzzle insects included...
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Bugs
Young scholars participate in an after school program that promotes communications skills, hypothesizing, exploring, recording of data, leadership roles and making comparisons. They explore the world of insects, where they come from, how...
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Insect Body Parts and their Functions
Students explore all the parts of an insects body and assess their specific functions. They review an extensive vocabulary list of terms and then relate the parts of an insect to those of a human being. Dragonfly Poetry is also taught...
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Insect Monitoring
Students practice the scientific method in the classroom, either in preparation or as a substitution for real-world field experience. They examine a simulated biodiversity research situation, using a "mini-plot" or
sampling square...
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Create An Insect
Students create a new species of insect. They create a list of insect characteristics and use this as a springboard to draw an insect of their own. Students write a brief descriptive paragraphs about their insect, giving particular...
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Smile...you're on Insect Camera!
Students study insects. They go on an outdoor insect outing and look for insects in a variety of places--in the air, under rocks, on leaves, in water, etc. They record information about the insects they find, including habitat, weather...
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Metamorphosis
Young scholars complete a unit about the insect metamorphosis process. They read and discuss a handout and sequence the events of metamorphosis for a variety of insects. Students also view and hold a tobacco hornworm, and complete a...