This topic quest was designed for Mrs. Barr's First Grade class at Sallas Mahone Elementary School by Lauren Freeman, a Valdosta State University preservice teacher.
| Do you like insects? What is
your favorite kind of insect? Did you know a cockroach can live
up to nine days without its head? There are many exciting things
to
learn and/or do with insects. All of these fun websites below will give
you interesting facts about bugs and the things that they do. One
of the websites will even give you some receipes for cooking and eating
bugs. Yummy! Have fun browsing! |
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There are so many different
kinds of insects! There is so much to learn about those different
insects. Go to this site and search about any kind of bug that
you wish. |
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Do you want to find out all about those small
little insects that are
always crawling or buzzing around? This site will give you all
sorts of interesting
information about
insects. |
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Do you think a roach is yucky? Wait until
you learn about these
cockroaches. This site is called The Yucky Roach World. |
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Can't get enough information about bugs?
This very detailed Encarta
Encyclopedia will tell you anything and everything about
insects. |
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Do you just love bugs and want to know everything
there is to know
about them? Encyclopedia
Smithsonian gives you likes to all sorts
of websites with information about bugs. |
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Do you want to learn all about earthworms?
This site will tell you
everything you need to know and more. |
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Want to learn how to
build an ant farm? This site will give you
directions on building the perfect ant colony. |
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Anyone hungry? Want to learn how to make
chocolate covered
crickets? Go to this site to learn about recipes that
involve bugs! |
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Do you find earthworms, beetles and other creepy
bugs
interesting? Then join The
Bug Club! |
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Do you like to tell creepy silly jokes that will
make your friends and family giggle for hours? Learn all sorts of bug jokes
at
this site. |
| Mission Imagine that you are a student in Miss DoodleBug's class. She has asked you to do a bug collection project. This collection must contain many different kinds of bugs to make an excellent grade. In order to have a bug collection, you must first know about many different insects. Use the websites above to learn all about different insects and where you can find them. After visiting the websites and learning all about bugs, go to this website where you can see a picture of a bug collection. 1) First visit the bug collection
website and look at the picture of the bug collection.
2) In this step draw a picture for Miss DoodleBug of ten different insects that you would like to find for your big collection. 3) Write the name of each bug under the picture. Think of an interesting fact that you learned about each insect as you are doing this step. 4) Make sure that your imaginary bug collection drawing is bright and colorful. 5) Turn your beautiful picture into Miss Freeman so that she can show it off on her teacher website. |
 Lauren's Land of Lollipops |
 lafreema@valdosta.edu |
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TopicQuest Lesson Plan |