Curated OER
"The Good, The Bad, and The Smelly."
Students explore insects' use of pheromones and beneficial insects versus insect pests.
Curated OER
Termite Lab
Students examine insect behavior in a lab activity. Students explore the idea of chemical specificity and the reactions of termites to a chemical found in their trail pheromone. Students watch a demonstration with termites before...
Curated OER
Environment: Insects and Pesticides
Students classify bugs as pest or non-pests and identify ways to control them. They also examine the three levels of pesticides by reading the labels. Students complete charts of signal words on pesticide labels.
Curated OER
Termite Biology
Students explore the physical characteristics, distribution and habitat of termites. The lesson focuses on the termite as a social creature contrary to most other insects.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sweaty T Shirts and Human Mate Choice
This video segment from Evolution: "Why Sex?" explores the "sweaty T-shirt experiment," which showed that humans may unconsciously be drawn toward a specific kind of genetic variation in a mate.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Go and Stop? Ant Traffic Signals
Have you ever stopped to watch a trail of ants moving back and forth between a food source and their nest? Have you ever wondered how they establish their trail? You've probably read that ants use chemical signals to communicate with one...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Floral Arrangements
Explore a few of the ways plants pollinate each other in this video segment from Sexual Encounters of a Floral Kind.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Science of Attraction
Romantic chemistry is all about warm, gooey feelings that gush from the deepest depths of the heart right? Not quite. Actually, the real boss behind attraction is your brain, which runs through a very quick, very complex series of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Diminished Sensory Input and the Enjoyment of Food
This is a five-question quiz pertaining to the passage "Diminished Sensory Input and the Enjoyment of Food."
Michigan Reach Out
Newton's Apple: Why Do Bees Sting?
Lesson plan that explains why bees sting, how bee societies are organized and an activity for learners to learn how bees communicate using pheromones.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Expedition Panama: Champion Chompers
Compare and contrast the weightlifting abilities of ants and humans and graph the results, and investigate the roles ants and fungi play in the forest ecology.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Chemical Communication
This site deals with many animals' use of chemical communication or pheromones to communicate. Includes examples and pictures.