[Free Registration/Login Required] This site shares the fable of The Grasshopper and the Ant. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...

"The Ants and the Grasshopper" is a one page, fable about grasshoppers who played all summer while the ants worked gathering food for winter. When winter came, the grasshoppers were hungry. It is followed by questions which require...

This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast by R.M. Ballantyne (1884), an illustrated children's novel.

"Grasshopper Green and the Meadow Mice", written in 1922 by John Rae, has been digitized and made available by the Rosetta Project. This 24 page book is appropriate for intermediate readers.

In this lab experiment, you will observe the external anatomy of a grasshopper, determine the sex of a grasshopper using external anatomy, and collect statistical data on grasshopper length. You will also be asked to describe the...

Hop to it! See several images and facts of grasshoppers. Click on the images for more information.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It contains questions and teacher guides and...

The importance of planning is the moral of this tale, written both in its traditional version and in a more modernized rendition.

This is a simple animation that shows an outline of a grasshopper. Different systems can be clicked on to show the different organs. This could be very helpful prior to dissections!

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The interactive tutorial examines entomophagy (insect-eating). Some examples of bugs you can eat are witchetty grubs, silkworm pupae, and grasshoppers. The activity consists of a printable version and interactive version.

Cartoon drawing of green grasshopper.

Two Striped Grasshopper

Two Striped Grasshopper

This site presents the full text of Rudyard Kipling's book, "The Jungle Book." Content includes a brief summary.

Work your way through the moral tales of Aesop. Table of context provides links to traditional tellings and modernized versions. Videos and original illustrations help tell the stories.

Colorful pictures display various types of insects. You can hear the correct Spanish pronunciation and see the correct spelling by holding your mouse over the picture.

A very comprehensive site from pedagonet.com that includes lesson plans on insects for all ages and grade levels. Students will enjoy learning about insects as you employ these engaging lesson plans in your own classroom.

This site provides an extensive collection of photographs of insects.

Explore the fascinating stories of insects and the roles they play in our lives. Check out the photos and descriptions, learn how they help humans, find some great educational resources, and much more.

A very comprehensive site that includes insect lesson plans for ages 3-18 and links to a syllabus, course material, activities, and related resources.

Here you can read a brief biography of Richard Lovelace, then read several of his poems.