Ladybug Lesson Plans

Help build young scholars' understanding of living things with the tools provided in this comprehensive life science resource. Including a total of nine lessons that cover topics ranging from plant and animal life cycles to heredity and...

Those lovely ladybugs are so cute, and so very useful! Use a short unit to explore insect anatomy, the ladybug life cycle, and the help ladybugs provide organic farmers. The unit is comprised of four short thirty-minute lesson plans that...

Young entomologists construct three types of insect traps—pitfall, pollinator, and panel—before setting their traps out and observing what they caught. They then observe what types of insects the different traps attract.

Third graders keep and report records of investigations and observations of ladybugs utilizing tools like journals, charts, graphs and computers. They discover and study the life cycle of ladybugs and complete a KWL chart about ladybugs.

Students study ladybugs. In this life science lesson, students collect ladybugs from the schoolyard and explore their characteristics. Students illustrate pictures of ladybugs.

Students receive paper butterflies from all over the world. For this Gotta Go! Gotta Go! lesson plan, students realize that plants and animals have life cycles, and that life cycles change for different living things. Students also...

Students explore the wonders of bugs. In this bug activity, students examine various types of bugs. Students make crafts, sing songs, discuss nutrition, and investigate different types of insects.

Young scholars use a variety of objects to integrate the arts into their learning experiences. In this arts lesson, students can create everything from animals to bookmarks to human body models, they use these crafty ideas to help them...

Students research the migration of monarch butterflies. In this monarch butterfly lesson plan, students read the book Buddy Butterfly and His Cousin. Students use a map of North America to trace the migration of the butterfly.