Choose an Insect

Prepared by Caroline Stetter Neel, Extension Specialist

Activity Description

Library or Internet Research
Age Group: Can be adapted for elementary through high school.
Class Time: Initial discussion and preparation one class period (55 minutes).

Objectives

1. Students will use books, encyclopedias, magazines, and the Internet to discover certain facts about an insect of their choice.
   
2. Students will write a short report addressing important facts about particular insects' lifestyle.
   
3. Students will present their findings to the class.
   

Academic Expectations

• 2.2 Identify, analyze, and use patterns such as cycles and trend to understand past and present events and predicg possible future events.
  
• 2.3 Identify and analyze systems and the ways their components work together or affect each other.
  
• 2.4 Use the concept of scale and scientific models to explain the organization and functioning of living and nonliving things and predict other characteristics that might be observed.
  
• 2.5 Understand that under certain conditions nature tend to remain the same or move toward a balance.
  
• 2.6 Understand how living and nonliving things change over time and the factors that influence the changes.
  

Choose an Insect

(Student Handout)

Name _____________________________

CHOOSE AN INSECT

Introduction: 10 points