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Insects A-Z!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Alphabet insects! Who has ever heard of such a thing? Get ready because your class is going to research insects that start with a specific letter of the alphabet. In small groups, they'll use the Internet and reference texts to locate...
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Caterpillars and Climate: How Temperature Affects Feeding Rate In Insects

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Do you eat more when you are hot or when you are cold? Young scientists observe the eating pace of two caterpillars at different temperatures. The differences in endotherm and ecotherm animals' ability to adjust to temperature change...
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Invent an Insect

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
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...
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Conservation in Small Spaces: Plant-Insect Interactions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore ways that plants and insects impact each other, identify how different types of mouthparts allow insects to use plants in different ways, and design an insect and a plant to demonstrate mutualism.
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Imaginary Insect Zoo

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this science instructional activity, students create an imaginary zoo. Students write information about their imaginary insect, including its name, how it eats, hears, seeing, smells, and eats.
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Bug Me While I'm Eating!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners explore nutritional value of insects as food, and compare the nutritional value of insects with that of their favorite foods by completing a table.
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The Happy Game: Insects

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young students will love learning with this fun and animated game. They feed the 'Happy Head' by answering questions about insects correctly. This game would be great as a science review or as a way for students to test what they know...
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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.
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Adopt An Insect

For Students 4th - 5th
In this insect worksheet, students choose a specific insect and complete a page with facts, diagrams and answers to questions. Students will need to research adaptations, defensive structures and scientific name.
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Insects

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
It's a fact: kids love bugs! With this lesson, young learners explore reading informational texts and conducting research while learning about their favorite insects. Spark learners' interest by reading a book about one kind of bug and...
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My Flip Book About . . .

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Print these as two-sided handouts from which elementary entomologists can make a flip-style book about beetles (or a variety of other animals that are available as well). They research the habitat, food, and other interesting information...
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Insects!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore the diet of insects. In this "insects" biology lesson, students take a nature walk and collect various natural materials they think may be eaten by insects. Students sort and classify these materials into three diet...
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Insects

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders research an insect and creates a brochure on that selected insect. Each student develops a Venn Diagram comparing similarities and differences between moths and butterflies.
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Facts About an Insect

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this insect worksheet, students choose a particular insect and do their own research. Students fill in the form that asks what the insect eats, where it lives and some interesting facts.
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A Bug's Life

For Students 6th - 8th
In this biology worksheet, students create a presentation for a museum about the children they encounter during their journey as an insect. They identify the types of food the insect eats and its habitat. Students also describe their...
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Survival Strategies and Adaptation in Insects

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate insects and their adaptations that help them survive. For this survival strategies lesson, 3rd graders view photographs of insects and discuss the adaptations that each one uses to survive, including camouflage...
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Bug's Eye View

For Teachers K - 5th
Investigate the life of bugs and how they interact with the environment in this integrated science and language arts lesson. Young scientists construct mini environments in cages in order to make observations. This data forms the basis...
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Importance of Nutrition

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Prepare your class members for the performance task assessment on nutrition with an activity that asks class members to rank images of foods from least nutritious to most. Participants also offer reasons for why they ranked the foods the...
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Mimicry: Other Insects That Resemble Bees

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students design a conceptual experiment to test whether mimics actually benefit from the fact they resemble other organisms or objects. They define the term mimicry. They focus on insects that resemble bees and wasps.
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Insects

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter i, and eat raisins that represent ants all to learn about insects. For this insects lesson plan, students also observe an ant farm and play follow the leader.
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If I Was A Insect? Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this insect activity, students answer questions as if they were a specific insect. They tell which insect they are, what other animals they see, what they eat, what their biggest threat is, and how long they will live.
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Organizer
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Adopt-An-Insect: Scavenger Hunts 1, 2, and

For Students 7th - 12th
In this insect scavenger hunt worksheet, students use the charts to keep track of the 52 insects they attempt to find as they complete 3 scavenger hunts.
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The Leaf Cafe

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students explore, research and study about the common local insects that eat leaves. They demonstrate their assessment of plant-eating insects by creating a Leaf Cafe. Each student also makes a chart showing which insects eat other...
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The Dragonflies of Summer

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
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...

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