Insects – Foss Science Stories
Intro
Table of Contents and Glossary pg. 24:
Read through the chapter titles and page numbers, then read selected pages and ask students to identify which chapter they think it is found in. What clue words did they hear?
Read through the Glossary page (24) and discuss the meanings and subheadings for Life Cycle.
Guided reading begins looking for answers to specific questions within a range of pages:
Pgs. 4-5 Name some places you might find insects.
Reread a sentence to prove your answer to us. Everywhere, in air, in water, in the Arctic snow, in the desert,
on a tree trunk, on mountaintops, in jungles and rainforests.
Page 6 What does it mean to be a pest? They bother us or destroy things.
What do some insects do
that makes them pests to us?
Eat our clothes,
buildings, crops, and us, by biting.
Page 7 Name some ways insects are important
to people.
Insects are food
for birds and other animals, frogs, bats…
Insect Shapes and Colors
Pages How can an insect’s shape or color
help it?
8 – 11 look like a leaf, thorn or
stick
bright colors and special
markings can mean that an insect will taste bad or can make the eater sick
Give an example.
Use the pictures to help explain your answer.
Pages What kinds of body
parts, does an animal need to be an insect?
12 –13 3 body sections: head, thorax, and abdomen
6
legs or 3 pairs of legs
antennae
1
or 2 pairs of wings
Pages Which of these are insects?
How can you tell from the photos?
14 – 15
Pages Name the 4 stages of
life an insect will go through in its lifetime.
16 – 18 egg, larva, pupa, adult
Were those named in the
order in which they happen in real life?
Pages Read
page 19 and guess what the larva will grow into before you
19 – 20 turn
the page.
page 21 Insects that don’t go through the four
stages we mentioned before,
have a different name
when they hatch from an egg…what are they
called? nymphs
Pages Read to find out ways in
which insects can be the same and can be
22 – 23 different.
SAME: 3
body parts and 6 legs and hatch from eggs
DIFFERENT: wings or no wings, 1 or
2 pairs of wings
antennae
feathery or smooth,
Leg length and
design, how they use their legs.
AFTER ALL IS READ AND
DISCUSSED:
If you could choose
to be one of the insects in this book for a day, which one would you choose?
Write at least 3 more sentences telling the reasons you would want to be that
insect.
Tell what it can do
or what you like about its looks and how it lives and moves.
Further research:
Using a triple T
chart, and the following categories, sort the insects in this book.
1. Helpful to people
2. Harmful to people
3. Both helpful and harmful