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Activity sheets:
"Pill Bugs Roll Up"
"Insect and Human Safety Song"
Activity Sheet
Teacher Preparation:
- Prepare container for the pillbugs, grasshoppers or stink bugs several days before lesson begins. Identify and prepare a place in the classroom for the insects to live. Avoid areas with direct sun, air vents or cold drafts.
- Use small groups as Activities 2 and 3. School volunteers, parents or student teachers are helpful to facilitate the activity with the students.
- When gathering arthropods for this lesson, make sure the arthropods demonstrate the behavior (i.e., grasshopper spitting up brown liquid; pillbugs (not sow bugs) rolling up in a tight ball and stink bugs releasing an odor when touched or squeezed). Suggestion: Have older students collect them and you check for the behavior. Plan an additional activity if the arthropods do not cooperate. Let the animals rest a day and try the experiment again.
- Record the three discussions on butcher paper (Introduction, Activity 1 and Activity 4). Prepare bulletin board space or other wall space for displaying the chart throughout the lesson.
- Gather remaining materials and books (see Bibliography).
Materials:
- One container for each kind of arthropod including food, shelter and other items listed on rearing sheet.
- Drawing paper
- Crayons
- Grasshoppers (one for class with teacher demonstration or one for each group of 4-6 students with adult assistance)
- Pillbugs or stink bugs (one for each group of 4-6 students)
- Magnifying glasses (one per group)
- Joanna Cole and Jerome Wexler, Find The Hidden Insect; Ermanno Cristini and Luigi Puricelli, In The Pond; Little Red Riding Hood; The Three Little Pigs; Arthur Dorros, Ant Cities; Ed Young, Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood from China; Verna Aardema, Bimwili and the Zimui; John Wood, Nature Hide and Seek Jungles; Ruth Heller, How To Hide A Butterfly; Anne Carter, Molly in Danger.
- Any supporting fiction and non-fiction literature that may not be suggested in the bibliography.
Grasshopper Information Sheets
Grasshopper Rearing Sheets
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