First graders participate in a variety of activities related to bees and ants.

Students use metaphors in order to see commonly experienced objects, events, and people in new and more meaningful ways.

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...

Young scholars study the binomial system of naming organisms. They are given a name of an organism and they must draw a picture of what they think the organism looks like. Then they research the organism, find what it really looks like,...

Students discover the characteristics of insects. They explore insects through cooperative learning, group projects, hands on activities, and poetry. They gain knowledge of insect life cycles, habitat, and physical characteristics.

Students role-play how animals and plants depend on and help each other in symbiotic relationships. Working in pairs, they role-play the animals' relationship. They may also choose to draw pictures of these partnerships.