Teacher Preparation:
- Set up terraria or containers for the ladybird beetles several days before class activities begin. Identify and prepare a place in the classroom for the insects to live. Avoid areas with direct sun, air vents or cold drafts. Responsibility for the animals can be given to students if you wish.
- Gather advertisements from various magazines (i.e., sports magazines and entertainment magazines). Check at used book stores or ask students to bring in magazines from home.
- Two collages are constructed in Activity 1 which is used throughout the lesson. One chart is planned for this lesson (Activity 5). Two discussions are recorded on butcher paper (Introduction and Activity 1). Prepare bulletin board space or other wall space for displaying graphs and charts throughout the lesson.
- Take care when guiding discussions about drug, alcohol and tobacco addictions. Sensitive experiences may emerge from students (i.e. alcoholism, drug abuse, death, domestic violence).
- Gather remaining materials and books (see Bibliography).
Materials:
- Ladybird Beetles - 2 for each team
- Gallon jar with small bottle cap with cotton soaked with honey water
- Scissors
- Recycled magazines
- Writing paper or individual student journals
- Butcher paper
- Construction paper
- Glue
- Art supplies (for Activity 3: egg cartons, pipe cleaners, buttons, bottle caps, colored paper, paper clips, popsicle sticks, etc.)
- Valerie Scho Carey, Quail Song; Russell Hoban, A Bargain for Frances; Gallimard Jeunesse, The Ladybird Beetle and Other Insects, A First Discovery Book; Mercer Mayer, The Pied Piper of Hamelin; Jay Williams, Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like.
- Any supporting fiction and non-fiction literature which may not be suggested in the bibliography.
Ladybird beetle Information Sheets
Ladybird beetle Rearing Sheets
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