Category: Entomology: Insects
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$2.50Buy NowA great resource to display and to get students hands-on putting together their own life cycle of the ladybug!
⭐Benefits of this resource:
- -Low prep – print and use/
- -Children learn about the ladybug life cycle both visually (poster) and in a fun and hands-on way as they color, cut and glue (worksheets).
- -Can be used to introduce the life cycle, or as a review/assessment to check understanding.
- -Encourages fine motor/scissor skills and sequencing.
- -Differentiated can be achieved by deciding if students are allowed to have the poster as a reference when completing their own life cycle.
- -Finished worksheets can be inserted into an interactive notebook.
⭐What else is included?
- -2 Life cycle posters (Color and Black/White) You can always allow students to color the b/w poster and keep.
- -2 student pages (worksheets). Students will color and cut out the 4 stages of the ladybug life cycle from the first page and glue in the correct sequence on the second page.
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$3.50Buy NowThis Science / Biology resource provides colorful posters and worksheets for 3 stages of a butterfly’s life cycle: caterpillar, chrysalis, adult butterfly.
Each stage of life comes with a poster (labels showing the parts) and the following 3 worksheets:
#1: Students will label a picture of the specific stage and are given the names of the parts they are to label
#2: Students will label a picture of the specific stage but are not given the names of the parts (as they should have those memorized)
#3: Students are to both draw and label the specific stage. Parts they are to label of given.What parts are labeled for each stage?
- caterpillar: head, thorax, simple eye, mandible, walking leg, abdominal segment, proleg, anal proleg
- chrysalis: cremaster, abdomen, spiracle, wing, metathorax, mesothorax, antenna, prothorax
- adult butterfly: back leg, middle leg, front leg, spiracles, forewing, antenna, hind wing, veins, compound eye, ocellus, anus, proboscis, labial palpus
BONUS: All pages are also included in B/W format!
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$1.75Buy NowThis Science resource will teach students the Life Cycle of a Butterfly and includes:
- * 2 color posters of the life cycle (1 with added details)
- * 1 b/w poster (for students to color),
- * 4 picture/information cards for each stage of the life cycle
- * 3 life cycle worksheets
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$6.25Buy NowStudents love studying insects and the ‘common’ ant may not be seem so common after this unit! Ants have some unique capabilities and there are more than 10,000 known ant species around the world. This resource is an interactive, hands-on Science project that will engage your classroom in student centered learning.
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$1.50Buy NowThis Science article teaches students facts about the monarch butterfly! This resource includes 2 pages of informational text and 3 student activity pages.
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$2.00Buy NowThis Science – Language Arts resource with have students creating their very own mini-book of the life cycle of a butterfly!
Knowledge students will learn: The book will begin with the butterfly laying an egg on a leaf and continue as a caterpillar begins to grow in the egg, hatches and begins to eat. Students will learn what the caterpillar eats and that it is a type of larva. As the book progresses, students will write about the caterpillar building a cocoon and it’s life as a pupa (and a chrysalis) before emerging as a beautiful butterfly!
On each page, students will … read the text, draw a picture and then write (copy) the written text.
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$1.50Buy NowEasy to use, print and go, insect note cards for your students to use! Perfect for any Science / Biology classroom studying insects (entomology). This is a set of 4 note cards. On each, students will draw and name the insect as well as listing where the insect lives, what it eats and one interesting fact.
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$2.00Buy NowThis is a downloadable copy of the book.
About the book: This book was written in 1923 by Leonard Haseman and can be a good tool to use when beginning to study insects. -
$2.50Buy NowThis resource is a print and go resource offering 18 coloring pages of insects plus a couple creepy crawlies! Each page has a large picture to color and the name of the ‘bug’ in font that are also ready to color.
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$3.00Buy NowThis 21 page resource will take students step by step through a guided identification process for invertebrates. This key is designed for 6th – 12th grades.
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$3.00Buy NowSpiders vs Insects – Science Investigator Mini-Unit has been designed to teach 2nd & 3rd grade students about the differences between these creepy crawlies!
This resource includes 2 levels of informational text (for differentiation) – reading comprehension questions for both, a couple drawing and labeling activities, a Venn diagram (compare and contrast), a crossword puzzle, a cooperative group (or partnership) activity and a short opinion essay question. Answer Keys are provided.
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$2.00Buy NowHelp your students learn about insects with their very own 12 page mini-book! This is a perfect tool to use as a study aid as it includes important facts about insects such as…the four things all insects must have: 3 body parts, 2 antennae, 6 jointed legs and an exoskeleton. This little book will also give examples of creepy crawlies that are not insects, how some insects have 1 or 2 pair of wings, how some are helpful and some are harmful. At the very end of the book, students are asked to draw their favorite insect.
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$1.00Buy NowThis is a small (15 page) old handout to help students learn basics about insects and how to mount them when creating an insect collection.
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$1.25Buy NowStudents love entomology! What is that bug? Some may use the term MINI-BEAST. Is it an insect, a spider, a slug? “I found this bug in the woods, but what is it called?” To help answer student questions like these, here is an easy to use PICTORIAL IDENTIFICATION KEY!
Woodland minibeasts included on this picture guide: snail, worm, larvae (pupae), slug, beetle, earwig, aphid, weevil, harvestman, spider, woodlouse, centipede and millipede (all common creepy crawlies found in the woods)
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$3.00Buy NowWant student to investigate a variety of different types of insects? This K-W-L resource includes 13 different KWL worksheets so that students (individually or in cooperative groups) can use as they study different bugs and creepy crawlies. Perhaps they want (or you want) the focus to be on insects that hop or ground dwelling insects. What if their study should focus on beetles only or butterflies and moths? Not only will you get worksheets for a variety of specified ‘types’ of insects but I’ve also included some that can be tailor designed to what you or your students choose to study!
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$4.00Buy NowButterfly Life Cycle Unit is a 49 page cross-curricular unit offering Language Arts, Science, Math and Art activities! By the end of your study, students will know all about the life cycle of the butterfly.
What is included? Puzzles, posters, worksheets (for tracing, matching, coloring, and completing the life cycle), coloring pages, songs, life cycle mini-book (for students to complete) and even a craft project.
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$3.50Buy NowA cross-curricular (Science / Literacy – Writing) product that will have students creating their very own mini-books detailing the life cycle of a ladybug!
Knowledge students will learn:
- -The ladybug is a beetle
- -Mother ladybugs lay tiny yellow eggs in clusters under a leaf
- -When the larva hatches, it eats. What do ladybugs eat? Students will find out!
- -What the ladybug pupa looks like before attaching itself to a leaf
- -The pupa grows, molts and changes…emerging as a ladybug!
Students will:
- -Read the text
- -Draw a picture
- -Write (copy work) the written text.
Benefits of this resource:
- -Low prep – print and give to students
- -Children learn about the ladybug life cycle while reading, drawing and writing
- -Encourages fine motor skills through coloring and writing plus scissor skills as the cut out each page along the dotted lines
- -Encourages reading skills as students read and copy the text
- -Finished book can be a keepsake Science mini-book and added to end-of-the-end portfolio.
What is included? 11 ready-to-use student pages
⭐⭐Use along or with: Ladybug Life Cycle | Posters and Worksheets
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$2.25Buy NowTWO ready to use Venn Diagram Science activities for students to use to compare 2 or 3 insects. On each, students will list the insects they will compare and contrast, draw a picture of each and then complete the Venn Diagram.
Extend the activity by asking students to write a paragraph or short report about their discoveries!
