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What is An Insect?

For Teachers K
Students investigate the concept of an insect. They conduct research about six different insects and identify the different body parts. Students look at the life cycle of the developing monarch butterfly. They also use the library to...
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Insects

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this insects worksheet, students review, define and discuss nine key insects related to science and circle each one in a word search puzzle.
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Painted Balsa-Foam Butterfly

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars research a butterfly and create butterfly art. In this visual arts lesson, students choose a specific butterfly to research and create a Balsa-Foam butterfly of the same species. Young scholars use Balsa-Foam, modeling...
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Insect Crossword Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this insect crossword puzzle learning exercise, students complete a crossword, using clues about insect parts, habitats, physical appearance and so on.
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Insect Anatomy

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Students explore the anatomy of an insect. In this activity the characteristics of insects, students explore parts of an insect. Students gain knowledge through pictures and charts showing insects and their body parts. Students will...
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Insect Food Chain & Camouflage

For Teachers K
Students use art work to demonstrate their understanding of the insect food chain and their ability to camouflage themselves. In this insect food chain and camouflage lesson, students determine what type of animals feed on insects. They...
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Interesting Insects

For Teachers 2nd
Students discover the characteristics of insects. They explore insects through cooperative learning, group projects, hands on activities, and poetry. They gain knowledge of insect life cycles, habitat, and physical characteristics.
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Eyewitness Insect Video Quiz

For Students 5th - 7th
In this insect worksheet, learners answer 12 multiple choice questions after watching a video about insects. Topics include structures of insects, characteristics of insects, termites, crickets and beetles and the process of metamorphosis.
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What Is Your Favorite Insect?

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this insect survey worksheet, students utilize tally marks as they survey their classmates, teachers, parents and friends on what their favorite insect is.
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Milkweed & Monarch Butterfly Mania Word Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this word search about milkweed and monarch butterflies worksheet, students use the words in the word bank to discover the words printed forward, backward, and diagonally. Students find 20 words.
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Insect Word Search

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this insects word puzzle worksheet, students examine the 9 insect-related words and names in the word bank and locate them in the word search puzzle.
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Insects Accordion Book

For Teachers K - 1st
In this insects accordion book, pupils read two pages, "1 butterfly, 2 grasshoppers." There is room on each page for students to illustrate. Pupils fold and glue the pages after they cut them out.
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Word Search: Insects

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this word search worksheet, students locate fifteen words related to insects. Words include beehive, ant, wasp, spider, and ladybug.
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Are You an Ant?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students investigate different insects in their backyard. In this insect lesson, students read the book Are You and Ant? and apply the reading to their backyards. Students create a list of animals that begin with the the letter A an make...
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Magical Metamorphosis

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the life cycle of the butterfly and the process of metamorphosis through the creation of painted life cycle habitat. They place each part of the cycle in the correct location through the use of a visual diagram.
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Arthropod Life Cycle

For Students 2nd - 6th
For this arthropod life cycle worksheet, students will use a diagram showing the 4 stages of butterfly metamorphosis to complete a table describing each of the stages.
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Butterfly

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
For this animal facts worksheet, students will read information about butterflies including what they eat and where they live. Then students can color a picture of a butterfly.
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Monarch Migration

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly. They experiment with various tools to simulate the mouth parts of insects, conduct research, record their observations of butterflies hatching, write a play, complete...
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Blending Butterflies

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create camouflage butterflies. In this camouflage lesson plan, students read about the different types of camouflage. Each student in the class chooses a spot in the classroom and creates a camouflaged butterfly. They hang up...
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More Spring Poems: Fluttering Butterflies

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this literature based learning exercise, students read the poem "Fluttering Butterflies," color the picture, underline the rhyming words and then on the lines provided, write the rhyming words on pages two through four several times.
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How Far Can a Butterfly Fly

For Teachers K - 1st
Students draw a picture of their favorite insect and describe. Students make a paper art project ladybug and write a story about it. Students map areas where certain insects are more prevalent. Students count dots on ladybugs and record.
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From Caterpillars to Butterflies: Life Cycles

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to a read aloud of the Eric Carle's, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and talk about the life cycle of caterpillars. They draw illustrations of the life cycle and compare it with the life cycle of another familiar...
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Adopt-An-Insect Bingo

For Students 5th - 8th
In this biology worksheet, learners select twenty-five terms relating to insects to complete their bingo card as listed on the sheet. Then they match each name or family with its correct description.
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How a Caterpillar Becomes a Butterfly

For Teachers K - 1st
Student role play and draw the various stages an insect goes through to become a butterfly. They discover the different stages of how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. Students read The Very Hungry Caterpilla by Eric Carle.