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Insects
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*Insects
*Fingerplays/Songs
Insect Parts
(tune: It Ain't Gonna Rain No More)
An insect has three body parts,
No more, no less than three:
Head and thorax, abdomen -
It sure makes sense to me!
The head has mouthparts well designed
And compound eyes as well.
Antennae sense the world around:
They feel and hear and smell.
The thorax is where legs are joined
Three pairs, six legs in all;
Two pairs of wings, or one, or none,
To fly or jump or crawl.
The abdomen is where are found
The systems that it needs
To breathe, to reproduce, digest
The food on which it feeds.
An insect has three body parts,
No more, no less than three:
Head and thorax, abdomen -
It sure makes sense to me!
Hug a Bug
Hug a bug,
Hug a bug,
But don't EVER
hug a bee!
It might sting
your nose,
your hand,
or your knee.
*Art
Camouflage Insect
Place out a variety of materials for the children to use (egg
cartons, pipe cleaners, tissue and construction paper). Have the
children create an insect with the materials. When done take the
insects outside and hide them. Whose insect is hardest to find? Why?
Paper
Mache Insects
*Things to
Do-Other Sites
Make A Simple Bug Catcher
Make
Your Own Compound Eye
Use egg cartons to make compound eyes.
Cool
Bookmark to Print and Color
BUG-GO
Print the game cards to play a Bug type of bingo game.
*Sites to See
Gordon's Entomological Home Page
Informatin and care sheets on insects.
3-D
Insects
Virtual insects see them big without a microscope.
Insect Safari
Play "Name The Bug" game. Free insect lessons for grades K-6.
*Bees
*Songs/Poems
Every Insect
By Dorothy Aldis
Every insect (ant, fly, bee)
Is divided into three:
One head, one chest, one stomach part.
Some have brains.
All have a heart.
Insects have no bones
No noses.
But with feelers they can smell
Dinner half a mile away.
Can your nose do half as well?
Also you'd be in a fix
With all those legs to manage:
Six.
Buzzing Bees
Bees, Bees, Bees, Bees
Buzzing in bushes and buzzing in trees
Buzzing around, wherever they please
There's nothing so sweet
As sweet as a honey bee.
The Swarm of Bees
By Elsa Gorham Baker
One little honeybee by my window flew;
Soon came another - then there were two.
Two happy honeybees in the apple tree;
One more bee came buzzing up - then there were three.
Three busy honeybees starting to explore
Another bee came to help - then there were four.
Four laden honeybees flying to the hive;
They were joined by one more bee - then there were five.
Five tired honeybees with the others mix;
Now there's a swarm of them - a hundred times six.
Buzzy Bee at KiDiddles
*Things to
Do
Beehive color page
Bees and Birds color page
Bumblebee color page
Bee Happy color page
Bonnie Bee Rhyme color page
*Sites to See
Africanized Honey Bees on the Move Lesson Plans (Grades K-12)
The University of Arizona Africanized Honey Bee Education Project
Honey Bee Printout
Bee Unit Lessons K-3
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