Insects -- School-age
Insects
Poem/Songs
Bugs Come Out In Spring
Tune: "When the Saints Come Marching In"
Oh when the bugs come out in spring
Oh when the bugs come out in spring
I want to be outside watching
When the bugs come out in spring
I'll see some crawl; I'll see some fly
I'll count how many go marching by
I'll watch and see how many I know
Of the bugs that come out in spring.
Insect Defences
Camouflage Insect
Insects belong to the animal kingdom and are called arthropods. Many animals use camouflage and mimicry to avoid being eaten by predators - or even to catch prey.
A camouflaged insect has a natural resemblance to an object or an apperance to something else. A camouflaged insect coloring or patterns matches its background making it hard for a predator to see it.
Mimicry is when different animal species look alike. A mimicking insect will copy a dangerous insect. The mimicry can either be in coloring, shape, movement, sound or odour. The animal will mimic other animals to fool and escape from predators.
Animal Tricksters Video
Art
Insect Camouflage - make a cardboard caddisfly.
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?Make
Make Your Own Compound Eye
Use egg cartons to make compound eyes.
Cool Bookmark to Print and Color
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, BeesBuzzing in bushes and buzzing in trees
Buzzing around, wherever they please
There's nothing so sweet
As sweet as a honey bee.
Things to Do
Africanized Honey Bees on the Move Lesson Plans (Grades K-12)
The University of Arizona Africanized Honey Bee Education Project
Video
