Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Web Of Life - Overlapping Food Chains

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars perform an activity in which they discover what happens when food chains overlap in an ecosystem and discover the three components of a food web.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Household Pests

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders discover the various habitat requirements for assorted household pests from ants to wasps. They conduct various activities including researching the life cycles moths, cockroaches, and mosquitoes
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Insects

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders brainstorm and identify several types of common insects. They play bug bingo, building bugs and an insect tree, observing real insects in the classroom and examining some of the things insects make.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Adopt-An-Insect Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a school-wide insect collection investigate the insect world. For this project, each grade level "adopts" specific orders of insects, collect specimens, create classroom collections, and complete related activities.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Adopt-An-Insect Bingo

For Students 5th - 8th
In this biology activity, students select twenty-five terms relating to insects to complete their bingo card as listed on the sheet. Then they match each name or family with its correct description.
Handout
Other

American Mosquito Control Association: Mosquito Life Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the life cycle of mosquitos, from the egg to adulthood, including the environment necessary for each stage.
Handout
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Life Cycle of a Mosquito

For Students 2nd - 8th
Gives a basic explanation of the life cycle of a mosquito along with some facts about this insect.
Website
Canadian Wildlife Federation

Hinterland Who's Who: Mosquito

For Students 9th - 10th
Get the facts about mosquito. Besides finding a detailed description of these pesky insects, you'll also learn about some of their unique facts and characteristics. Also included in this Insect Fact Sheet on mosquitoes is information on...
Handout
Other

Cc: A Classification System for Mosquito Life Cycles

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth discussion on the classification systems of mosquitos: discusses the classification of Bates and Pratt and proposes a new classification system.
Website
Other

Alameda County Mosquito Abatement: Life Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion on the general characteristics of the mosquito, its feeding habits, flight habits and life cyle.
Activity
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Mosquito

For Students 1st - 6th
An illustrated diagram of the Anopheles mosquito. Get detailed information on its life cycle, mosquito bites, and more.
Handout
Other

Tom Moore, Mulrennan Research Center/ Mosquito

For Students 9th - 10th
The first section describes the general characteristics of the mosquito
Activity
University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: Mosquito Bytes

For Students 9th - 10th
A general description of the life cycle of the mosquito. Includes inforation on why they need blood and how they breed.
Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Pond Life Animal Printouts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Filled with printable pages of both plant and animal pond life, Enchanted Learning features fact sheets with color pictures.
Handout
Rutgers University

Rutgers Center for Vector Biology: Mosquito Biology

For Students 9th - 10th
This page covers the life cycle, habitats and other details about mosquitos.