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Explorit's Animal Quiz

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this animals learning exercise, students complete a five question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about animals. This quiz has questions about mammals, insects and birds.
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Life in a Log

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners identify insects living in rotting logs. In this decomposition lesson, students observe pieces of a rotting log, they look at the insects that have inhabited the log and create a chart that shows their findings.
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Investigating Crickets and Their Body Parts

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the body of a cricket. In this biology lesson students use tools to gain information about the insect the cricket. Students observe and identify features and describe how these features help the cricket live in...
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Spider Anatomy Lesson: Is It a Spider?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students review information on a website which shows different types of spiders. They sort images of spiders from other insects. They create their own spider out of materials and share them with their classmates.
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Butterflies Crossword Puzzle

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this science instructional activity, students complete a crossword puzzle by writing in words related to the life cycle of a butterfly. Students review ten vocabulary words on this instructional activity.
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Fun with Flowers

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students make observations of flowers. In this life science instructional activity, students look at flowers, then draw and color their favorite flowers. Lesson includes extension activities.
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Natural Gardening

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students study the effect of pesticides on plants and insects. In this gardening lesson, students discuss the importance of insects. They define pesticides, evaluate their effectiveness and the problems they might cause. Students...
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Garden Pests & Problems: Toad Town

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this garden pests & problems toad town worksheet, students read and follow directions for building a home and a pond for a toad to help with insect control in a garden.
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What's Bugging You?

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this insect worksheet, students answer short answer questions about insects using an internet hunt. Students answer 14 questions total.
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Water Quality Survey

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the differences in the water quality of a stream and complete water testing.  In this water quality lesson students collect aquatic insects and identify them. 
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Forensic Entomology: What the Blowfly Saw

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners read a paragraph describing various insects and decomposition rates, then fill in the table indicating when the three insects arrived or left the body. They write paragraphs explaining when the person died, and how they know.
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BioKeys

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars identify insect (and plant) specimens using the online resource Biokeys. They record the data that they collect in their notebooks. Students use identification characteristics and features that are shared and unique...
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The Pests of Summer

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students research insects that act as pests during the summer months. They investigate how to protect themselves and their homes from these pests. They study the life cycle of the cicada.
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All About Lakes, Rivers, and Flyfishing Too

For Students 7th - 10th
For this insect and fish story writing worksheet, students draft a story that includes a setting, characters, problems, and events from the perspective of an insect or fish. In addition, students locate 51 science terms in a word search...
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"The Aquatic Fish Foods"

For Students 5th - 12th
In this insects worksheet, students access a website to answer questions about the different types of insects that are food for fish. This worksheet has 10 short answer questions.
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From Flower to Fruit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how flowers have essentially four parts. They learn both the male and female reproductive parts of the flower, then explore self-pollination and pollination by insects and other animals.
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Children's Health

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils learn the basic parts of an insect, where they like to hide indoors, and how to safely get rid of them. They assemble the cockroach body and cut it out of a brown bag. They attach pipe cleaners as legs and attennae. They then...
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Coevolution: A Simulation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students participate in a demonstration in which they must attempt to suck liquid from varying containers with straws of varying sizes. They discuss the concept of coevolution and see why this activity illustrate the coevolution of...
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Vertebrate History in Rocks

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read the noted section in their science textbooks and respond to 4 short answer and 3 fill in the blank questions regarding fossils embedded in rock formations.
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Lake Ecosystem in the Shoal Area

For Students 6th - 12th
In this lake ecosystem worksheet, students draw a picture of a lake, including weeds, small and big fish, aquatic insects, and micro organisms.
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Birds, Bees and Butterflies

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students complete a variety of activities surrounding science, music and art.  In this nature and animals instructional activity, students sing songs, color a picture of make a butterfly, listen and dance to music, make a butterfly,...
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Ecosystems and Climate

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners examine climatic effects on ecosystems. They plant tomatoes and observe the differences in plant growth with differences in light. They create picture collages of plants, animals, and insects found in each climate of the U.S.
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Life Cycles

For Teachers 2nd
Using computers, Students work in small groups and progress through the roles of Explorer, Researcher, Designer, and Evaluator as they study the life cycle of plants, insects, butterflies and frogs.
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Quiz: Animals of the Desert

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this science worksheet, students complete a 10 question multiple choice quiz about desert animals. The answers are provided with explanations upside down on the page.

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