Extensions Role play being grasshoppers interviewed by student reporters. Use the Grasshopper Puzzle from National Wildlife Federation's Incredible Insects. Make soup as the closure activity and include measuring, planning and cooking as part of the activity. Words with Special Meanings (for understanding only, not to be tested) Diet: what a human or other animal eats. Five Food Groups: dairy, meats and fish, grains, fruits and vegetables. Hypothesis (hypotheses, plural): a tentative explanation for a question that can be tested using experimentation. Nutrition: the study of diet and food. 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. Bibliography Bailey, Jill. The Life Cycle of a Grasshopper. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1990 Barrett, Judy. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1978. Dallinger, Jane. Grasshoppers. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications, Co., 1981 DuBois, William P. Bear Circus. New York: Viking Press, 1971 Grasshoppers and Crickets. East Sussex, UK: Wayland Publishing Ltd., 1979 Helfer, J.R. How to Know the Grasshoppers, Cockroaches and their Allies. Dubuque, IA: William C. Brown Co., 1963 Hoban, Russell. Bread and Jam for Frances. New York: Scholastic/Harper and Row, 1962. Hogner, Dorothy Childs. Grasshoppers and Crickets. New York: Thomas Crowell Co., 1960 Hutchins, Ross E. Grasshoppers and Their Kin. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1972 Incredible Insects. Washington DC: National Wildlife Federation, 1986 Kimmel, Eric A. Why Worry? New York: Pantheon Books, 1979 Lobel, Arnold. Grasshopper on the Road. New York: Harper and Row, l978 Piers, Helen. Grasshopper and Butterfly. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1975 Porter, Keith. Discovering Grasshoppers and Crickets. New York: The Bookwrights Press, 1986 Ryan, Will (adapted by). Grasshopper and the Ant: An Aesop Fable. With cassette. Chatsworth, CA: Alchemy Communications, 1987 Sushiela, L.C. Ant and the Grasshopper: A Love Story. Hollywood, CA: Running Water, 1990 Turner, Ann. Grasshopper Summer. Mahway, NJ: Troll Associates, 1990 Watts, Barrie. Grasshoppers and Crickets - Keeping Minibeasts. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc. Wyler, Rose. Grass and Grasshoppers. J. Steltenpohl (editor). New York: Outdoor Science Series - Messner, 1990

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