Six Insect Legs

How can you tell if a creature is an insect? Count its legs! Youngsters identify how many legs each human, ladybug, and butterfly has, as well as compare and contrast other their characteristics in order to draw conclusions about each...

The best thing about dragonflies is that they make great topics for informational texts. Get those readers excited with a fun and interesting insect-related text passage that can help them increase their comprehension skills. As children...

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...

Insects are like little aliens living all around us. Explore fun and interesting insect facts by having the class read a short informational paragraph. The paragraph focuses on how we are similar and different to insects and includes...

Upper elementary schoolers learn to identify insects by their leg count: six legs each! They study the boxes of insects and write multiplication sentences to find the total number of legs in each group. It's a natural real-world...

Young scholars find and classify insects. They collect insects, study them with a hand lens and identify its body parts. Afterwards, they discus various types of insects and thier Orders such as beetles, butterflies and moths,...

Students name the three parts that comprise an insect body. In this ant instructional activity, students make connections regarding the curiosity of insects as it touches upon the students' personal perspectives. Students then observe...

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.

Explore biology by researching adaptation. First, learners research and define a list of insect vocabulary terms and discuss the benefits of each insect characteristic. They then utilize a worksheet to create their own insect and share...

Students examine how some insects change colors as they move to camoflauge themselves. Using the internet, they examine their favorite one more closely and make an outline of the body on construction paper. To end the lesson, they add...