Students create glow in the dark simulated lightning bug jars after reading stories about fireflies.

Learners investigate insect camouflage and mimicry. In this animal science instructional activity, students discuss how camouflage helps an insect survive. Additionally, learners use the included template to color and cut illustrations...

Students discover how to locate books on meadow and pond animals and research them. Students discover how to locate fiction/story books about the animals mentioned in the counting book read. Students discover how to locate by author,...

Students create instruments to capture different types of insects. In this The Greatest Show on Earth: The World's Smallest Animals lesson, students compare the attributes of certain insects and record the data on a chart. After catching...

A cute folktale from Bali tells the story of Gecko, Elephant, and Buffalo, and Gecko's struggle to sleep. After reading Go to Sleep, Gecko, learners focus on comprehension questions, singing and learning about geckos, building...

Students investigate some of the 'mysteries' of the animal, marine and insect worlds, and create student books explaining their findings to younger students.

Students participate in a theme study while teaching primary students basic skills according to Individual Education Plan (IEP) goals in Reading, Math, and Writing. The lesson is concerned primarily with the concept of insects.

Students play instruments that reflect sounds in the story: hoots, toots, creaking, shrieks, clacking, crunching, whooshing, etc. They make vocal sounds from the story: whispered, sniffled, sigh, giggled, croaked, laughed. The...

In this science worksheet, students examine 4 pictures in a row and circle the invertebrate that is different from the others. There are 4 rows of pictures. Answers are provided upside down on the page.

This simple lesson plan is designed to introduce young scholars to the qualities of fireflies.