Activity Sheets:
Fly drawing for Activity 2
Flies for cut-out arts and crafts
Good Grooming Habits for Closure Activity
Teacher Preparation:
- Obtain materials for the fly trap. Prepare the fly trap pieces for easier assembly by the students. If your students can tie knots, you do not need to use paper clips. Follow steps 1, 2, and 4 on the How to Make a Fly Trap Information Sheet.
- Check the area around the school before the field trip for good areas to set up the fly traps. Avoid areas with poisonous plants, venomous animals and treacherous terrain (Activities 1 and 2). If you have trouble attracting flies, place the trap near the cafeteria food dumpster, horse stables or other areas frequented by flies.
- Secure access to a refrigerator or ice chest for chilling the flies (Activity 2).
- Print and make copies of Fly drawing for Activity 2. Print, make copies of, and cut Flies for the chart used in Activity 3. Print and make copies of Good Grooming Habits chart after filling in the "What to do" column from the students' ideas (Closure Activity).
- One graph is planned for this lesson (Activity 3). Three discussions are recorded on butcher paper (Introduction, Activities 2 and 3). Prepare bulletin board space or other wall space for displaying charts throughout the lesson.
- Gather remaining materials and books (see Bibliography).
Materials:
- Plastic soda bottles
- String
- Hole punch
- Heavy scissors
- Drawing paper, pencil, crayons
- Butcher paper
- Magnifying glasses and/or lens
- Glue stick
- Absorbent cotton balls
- Raw meat (bait) (see Information Sheet)
- Jim Ayelsworth, Old Black Fly; Marshall McClintock, A Fly Went By.
- Any supporting fiction and non-fiction literature that may not be suggested in the bibliography.
Fly Information Sheets
Fly Rearing Sheets
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