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'Don't Let the Bugs Bite' Word Search
In this bugs word search learning exercise, learners locate and identify 25 insect-related words within the word search puzzle.
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab: Words Beginning with Q
In this vocabulary worksheet, students select the word that best completes the sentence. They are challenged by the difficult words that begin with "q."
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Bees Word Search
For this bees worksheet, students analyze 10 words in a word bank that pertain to bees. Students find each word in a word search puzzle.
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Conducting Research: Analyzing a Variety of Sources to Capture Information about My Insect
From picture to words. Scholars analyze a picture of an ant and then list two facts they observed and any questions that may arise. Expert groups from the previous instructional activity then look at a diagram about either an ant or...
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Making Inferences About Informational Text: Science Talk on How My Insect Contributes to the Rainforest Ecosystem
We need to talk. Learners participate in a science talk by discussing the idea of how insects are important to the rainforest. They record notes about their conversations as they talk. For homework, pupils add to their field journals.
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Taking Notes and Citing Quotes from Text: Gathering Information on our Rainforest Insects
In other words. Scholars practice using paraphrasing and quotes. They partner in pairs to write a paraphrase for an information text strip. Individuals then use their skills to paraphrase information from the text Fire Ants.
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What Category do I Best Fit Into?
Use this pre-reading exercise to help learners sort familiar objects into categories. For each of these three sets, they draw a line from the object to the category in which it belongs. There are two categories for each set. If...
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Butterfly, Butterfly: Teaching Vocabulary
Kindergarteners practice new words through listening to and reading the science book Butterfly by Jenny Feely. The teacher will first choose words that are essential for understanding the text. Then, using pictures in the text,...
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Handwriting Practice-insect Words
In this handwriting practice with words worksheet, students practice cursive writing by copying 5 words. There are lines provided for practice. This does not appear to be traditional U.S. or DeNelian style.
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Insect word chop worksheet
In this insect word learning exercise, students put parts of words together to make words having to do with insects. Students put together 10 words.
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Inventing Insects
Students explore the world of insects and discover what it might be like to live like one. They create an insect with physical characteristics and demonstrate how it moves. Students also compare and contrast insects to spiders and how...
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Insect Study: merit badge
For this insects worksheet, students use their workbook to answer short answer questions about insects. Students complete 11 questions total to get their merit badge.
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What Kind of Habitat Does Your Insect Live In?: Graph
In this insect habitat bar graph worksheet, students will ask their classmates what kind of habitat their insect lives in and record the responses to complete the graph.
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How Does Your Insect Move?: Graph
In this insect behavior bar graph worksheet, students will ask their classmates how their insect moves: does it walk, swim, fly or jump? Then students will record the responses to complete the graph.
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Insects and Bugs
Students recognize the difference between insects and bugs while making connections to personal experiences. In this insect and bug lesson, students complete a pre-assessment to demonstrate prior knowledge, then gather information...
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Beneficial Bug Scavenger Hunt
Going on a scavenger hunt sounds like a great way to spice up any lesson plan. To better understand how beneficial insects are, the class goes outdoors to search for and observe a bug that has big benefits. Included in the lesson plan...
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Inside Out Vocabulary Words
Vocabulary words from Francisco Jimenez's autobiographical novel, The Circuit, are featured in a 17-slide PowerPoint presentation that not only provides definitions for the words but also illustrations and photos to provide context.
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"Ing" Words as Descriptors
This clever lesson plan has your students listen to story about bugs, work together to brainstorm list of "ing" words that describe bugs, create t-chart of words, choose words to place in poem template to create class poem about bugs,...
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Growing Caterpillars
Explore multiplication through caterpillar study. Learners will view a caterpillar video clip and work with a group to determine how much they would weigh if they grew to be 3,000 times their size as does the caterpillar. They will...
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Word Unscramble: Insects
In this insect word scramble, young scholars try to decipher 15 insect words. There is no word bank in this word scramble puzzle. All words are insect names.
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Insects
Pupils study the characteristics and basic needs of insects. They compare and describe similarities among insects. They examine the body structure, covering, and movement of insects and also, examine insect life cycles in this unit of...
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Word Search: Insects
In this word search worksheet, young scholars locate fifteen words related to insects. Words include beehive, ant, wasp, spider, and ladybug.
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Word Search: Ladybugs
In this insect word search worksheet, students find 13 words pertaining to ladybugs. There is a word bank provided for this puzzle which is shaped like a bug.
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Insects!
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...