Additions

Additions: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

Extensions

Talk about crickets as pets in parts of the world. Read other stories from other cultures and myths about crickets.
Have the students pretend they are crickets.
If the crickets are local (not bought), include the students in a release activity. The crickets can be carefully carried outside to an appropriate habitat and released. The crickets can be "wished a safe life" and thanked for the time they spent in the classroom.
Play "Build an Insect" (or Cootie) using dice. The students take turns throwing the die to draw insect parts one at a time until the insect is complete
Use multi-media and let students build an insect together in teams or individually.
Have pairs of students trace each other and then cut out the image, label and hang up around the classroom.

Words with Special Meanings
(for understanding only, not to be tested)

Abdomen: the name of the stomach region.
Antenna (plural, antennae): a pair of appendages on the head of an insect used as sensory organs.
Compound Eyes: the special eyes of an insect that are made of many, many tiny lenses.
Exoskeleton: a hard protective covering on the outside of an insect's body. It is a skeleton on the outside.
Hypothesis (hypotheses, plural): a tentative explanation for a question that can be tested using experimentation
Observe: to look at and pay special attention to what something does, what it looks like, and how it changes
Predict: to guess what you believe will happen
Thorax: the name for the chest region of an insect. An insect's legs are attached to its thorax.

Bibliography
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Hoberman, Mary Ann. Bugs. New York: Viking Press, 1976.
Hogner, Dorothy Childs. Grasshoppers and Crickets. New York: Thomas Crowell Co., 1960.
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Kimmel, Eric A. Why Worry?. New York: Pantheon Books, 1979.
Levine, Gloria. Cricket in Times Square: A Study Guide. LRN Links, 1987.
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Mizumura, Kazue. If I Were a Cricket.... New York: Thomas Crowell, 1973.
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Selden, George. The Cricket in Time's Square. New York: Ariel Books, 1960.
Selden, George. Cricket in Times Square. New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1970.
Simon, Seymour. Discovering What Crickets Do. New York: McGraw Hill Book Co., 1973.
Stevens, Carla. Catch A Cricket. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 1961.
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