Grooming is a Good Thing

Flies

	Grade Level:	Kindergarten
	Health Topic:	Hygiene
	Subjects:	Health, Science, Language Arts, Math

Time of year: Spring, Fall

Overall Objective: The students will demonstrate an understanding of hygiene by observing and recording insect grooming, and by predicting its importance. They will construct a fly trap, use it to collect house flies, and observe the flies grooming. They will compare and contrast the fly's grooming techniques and their own.

Set-up
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Lesson Plan
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Set-up Includes teacher preparation and the materials needed for the lessons. Also, has links to pertinent activity sheets.		Lesson Plan Outlines and suggests how to carry out the lessons with relevant links to activity sheets.
Additions Offers extended options for the lessons, important definitions, links to activity sheets, and a bibliography.		Table of Contents Return to the table of contents for all lesson plans.