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Those Busy, Buzz'n Worker Bees

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students research information on worker bees. In this insect lesson, students review the body parts of insects and how bees find flowers. They discuss compound and simple eyes and the life cycle of a worker bee.
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Create Your Own Insect

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In insect worksheet, students read the facts about insects. Students then use the insects and create their own insect including all the body parts listed.
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Parts of an Insect

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this online interactive parts of an insect activity, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions regarding the information included in the provided paragraphs.
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Interesting Insects

For Teachers 2nd
Students discover the characteristics of insects. They explore insects through cooperative learning, group projects, hands on activities, and poetry. They gain knowledge of insect life cycles, habitat, and physical characteristics.
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Insect Anatomy

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this insect anatomy worksheet, students utilize a word bank to label the six parts of an insect: abdomen, antennae, head, legs, thorax and wings.
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Word Unscramble: Insects

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this insect word scramble, students try to decipher 15 insect words. There is no word bank in this word scramble puzzle. All words are insect names.
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A Bugs Life: Diary of an Insect's Metamorphosis

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play games to learn about the life stages and metamorphosis of different insects. In this insects lesson plan, students discuss the life of insects, and then play matching, vocabulary, and memory games.
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Parts of an Insect

For Students K - 1st
In this science learning exercise, students read about the three parts of an insect. Students also analyze a labeled picture of an insect that shows its mouth, antenna, head, led, thorax, and abdomen.
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The Young Virginia Gardener: Garden Pests and Problems-Insects

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this garden pests and problems worksheet, students read about insects and research what insects use their antenna for, comparing 2 or 3 different types. 
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Is it an Insect?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students identify insects based on their characteristics. In this insect characteristics lesson, students study the 3 images of the millipede, housefly, and woodhouse insect. Students complete the insect characteristic chart.
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Name That Part?

For Teachers K
Students name the basic body parts of an insect.
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Activity Plan 5-6: Bugs, Bugs, Bugs!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars 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...
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Termite Biology

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore the physical characteristics, distribution and habitat of termites. The lesson focuses on the termite as a social creature contrary to most other insects.
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Insect Introduction

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate insects and non-insects by creating their own definitions. They complete a series of activities relating to insects.
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Ant Bodies

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students name the three parts that comprise an insect body. In this ant lesson plan, students make connections regarding the curiosity of insects as it touches upon the students' personal perspectives. Students then observe ants in class...
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Arthropod Coloring

For Students 9th - 12th
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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Arthropods, Insects, Arachnids, and Crustaceans

For Students 6th - 10th
In this biology worksheet, students read about arthropods and some of the different species that fit into this classification. They then answer 13 questions about what they just learned. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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A Bug's Journey

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the artwork of John Baldessari that was inspired by a 16th century drawing of a beetle. They analyze a drawing of a beetle, discuss the insect's characteristics, and write a story from the perspective of a bug. Also,...
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Bees and Wasps

For Students 4th - 6th
In this biology activity, students look for the details that are common to the insects. Then they label the parts for the two diagrams.
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Diversity of Arthropods

For Students 9th - 12th
For this arthropods worksheet, students will review the characteristics of the different types of arthropods including spiders, ticks, crustaceans, millipedes, and insects. Students will also understand the difference between complete...
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Insects: Grasshoppers

For Teachers K
Students examine grasshoppers as they practice following instructions. In this biology lesson plan, students identify the characteristics of grasshoppers and the functions of grasshoppers' external body parts.
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Animals

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the ways in which animals differ. They discuss the characteristics of insects and spiders. Students identify the characteristics of insects and spiders. They compare and contrast insects and spiders.
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Arthropod Coloring Worksheet

For Students 6th - 10th
In this biology worksheet, learners color and label the different parts of arthropods. They complete 63 short answer and fill in the blank questions on arthropods.
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Arthropod Rhymes

For Students 9th - 12th
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.