Lesson Plan
Become Entomologists
- Grades: 3–5, 6–8
Invite your students to learn more about the insects that inhabit Earth. Collect books about insects from the library and visit sites such as insects.org and insectimages.org to see amazing images of hundreds of creepy crawlies. Then have each student or pair of students choose an insect to study. Students can make detailed drawings of their insects, as Brian Selznick did, to be collected in a class book. Or they could construct models of their insects from wire, bits of clay, aluminum, and other recycled “junk” to display in a Museum of Natural History–style “hall of insects.”
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- Subjects:Language Arts, Science, Insects

