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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Insect Crafts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An extensive list of elementary insect crafts. Each activity contains a list of everyday materials, and detailed instructions.
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Website
abcteach

Abcteach: Insects

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the insect world using activities and lesson plans that emphasize cross-curricular learning.
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Website
US Department of Agriculture

Us Dept. Of Agriculture: Agricultural Research Service: Not All Bugs Are Bad

For Students 2nd - 7th
Find out who an entomologist is and how they are using good bugs to control the population of bad bugs. Resource by Agricultural Research Service.
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Other

Hummingbird Educational Resources: Ladybugs and Insects

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is a resource for any teacher looking for some ideas to use to complement a unit on bugs. Scroll down for songs, center ideas, crafts, science discovery, math ideas, dramatic play ideas and much more!
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Should We Eat Bugs?

For Students 9th - 10th
What's tasty, abundant and high in protein? Bugs! Although less common outside the tropics, entomophagy, the practice of eating bugs, was once extremely widespread throughout cultures. Insects hold promise for food security and the...
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eBook
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Science Education Center: Expedition Insects [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Giant deadly hornets, gorgeous fluttering butterflies and stealthy crawling stink bugs: readers cannot tear their eyes away from these fascinating creatures. They can discover these and more mesmerizing world insects in Expedition:...
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Other

Aes: Bug Identification

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive resource can be used to identify the order of an insect.
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Handout
Earth Life

Wonderful World of Insects: An Introduction to the 32 Orders of Insects

For Students 9th - 10th
A very thorough look at the world of insects. This site examines the 32 orders of insects and gives a complete explanation of the characteristics of each order. Text is supplemented with pictures.
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Activity
Staten Island Children's Museum

Staten Island Children's Museum: Bugs and Other Arthropods

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Fun family projects relating to insects.
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Interactive
Scholastic

Scholastic: Monster Bugs

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Here are a couple of fun games where you can mix and match bug bodies, legs, wings, and heads to make your own "monster bug." There is also some fun trivia as you play!
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Control of Insects

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Ladybugs won't hurt you. But they are dangerous to some other insects! Ladybugs eat plant-harming bugs known as aphids. Since they have an appetite for aphids,...
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Website
Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum: Insects and Spiders

For Students 9th - 10th
As an online exhibit from the Natural History Museum, this site examines many different subtopics stemming from a study on both insects and spiders. Several of the subtopics include spider bites, bumblebees, moths, edible insects,...
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Insects Quiz

For Students 3rd - 6th
Take an interactive quiz over insects. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Backyard Bugs

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This video segment from Wild TV takes a closer look at backyard bugs, their habitat and characteristics. [2:48]
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Interactive
National Pest Managment Association

Pest World for Kids: Sort the Bugs

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A fast-paced game where you must eliminate the insects by sorting three types of bugs into jars, hitting flies with a fly swatter, picking ticks up with tweezers, or vacuuming up stink bugs.
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Interactive
National Pest Managment Association

Pest World for Kids: Bug Builder

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Create an ant, a bee, a spider, a cockroach, or a bug of your own design. Use the camera feature to save it to a gallery, and even email it to yourself.
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Handout
Ed Koday

Web Archive: Ambush Bug

For Students 3rd - 8th
Ambush bugs are predators which normally lie in wait for prey. They have front legs fitted for grasping, much like that of a praying mantis. They commonly sit on a flower waiting for insects attracted to flowers. Goldenrod is a favorite...
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Other

California Science Center: Build a Bug! [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Build an edible bug with this activity from the California Science Center. Make good choices based on what you learn about the body, wings, and legs.
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Lesson Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: Tuneful Bugs and Birds

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Arts Edge at the Kennedy Center provides this lesson plan for teachers of ESOL students that integrates music into language arts. Students create their own poetry while listening to music about bugs and birds.
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Other

Dennis Kunkel Microscopy: Most Wanted Bugs

For Students 9th - 10th
Sneak a peek at the mug shots of some popular bugs.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: The Greatest Show on Earth (Starring Some of the World's Smallest Animals)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Teachers can download this teaching package that discusses insects and insect adaptations. Students will enjoy the hands-on activities described in the lessons. Teachers will appreciate the student handouts provided, as well as the list...
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Unit Plan
Museums Victoria

Museum Victoria: Bugs

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn what insects are, how they live, how they find food, how they defend themselves, and how they affect humans. Organized into several articles accompanied by high-quality photos and video, this online exhibit provides...
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Handout
Ed Koday

Web Archive: Milkweed Bugs

For Students 3rd - 8th
Adults are 9/16 to 10/16 inch long, black, and colorfully marked with reddish-orange on the head, sides of the pronotum (part of the thorax), and the wing covers. They have a Y-shaped head marking and two wide crossing orange bands...
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eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Animals: The Busiest Bugs I Know

For Students K - 1st
Read about all the work that bees do and why they are so important to humans. Includes audio narration in 15 additional languages with text in English.

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