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INSECTS
NATURAL SCIENCE
Classification of insects:
• An insect is a small animal with six legs.
• Some insects have wings
• E.g.: Ants, Butterflies, beetles and flies
Characteristics of insects:
• Joint feet (jointed foot)
• An exoskeleton (hard external cover)
• Segmented body
• Ventral nervous system
• Digestive system
• Open circulatory system
CLASS ACTIVITY: Identify the characteristics of an insect amongst other animals characteristics
Different types of insects:
• Ant, bees and wasps -Hymenoptera
• Beetles, weevils -Coleoptera
• Butterflies and moths -Lepidoptera
• Caddisflies- Trichopteran
• Cockroaches – Order Blattodea
• Crickets, grasshoppers and katydids – Order orthoptera
CLASS ACTIVITY : Identify the type of insect and place in the correct family/group
SOCIAL SCIENCE
How insects help us :
• Insects keep other pest insects in line
• They help pollinate crops and flowers that we rely on as food
• Insects are sanitation experts
• They clean up waste so
dung beetles collect dung so that the word is not overrun with dung
How insects can harm us
• Insects each natural fibres and destroy wooden building materials
• Some insects are poisonous:
• Fleas
• Fire ants
• Hornets
• Monarch butterfly
• Bullet ant
• Insects also ruin stored grain which means that there will be a shortage in food
TECHNOLOGY
Observing and drawing an insect:
o Looking at the structure of an ant under a magnifying glass
o Identify the :
• exoskeleton
• antenna
• wings( if the ant in the picture has wings)
o count how many feet the ant has
o identify the kind of ant
CLASS ACTIVITY: draw and label an insect that has wings
The construction of an ant hole/mound :
• ant mounds are a combination of soil, sand and clay
• they are built by the worker ant
• they start by removing soil above the ground to create a tunnel
• then they excavate during tunnelling the nest chamber construction
• the soil is then moved above ground ,creating the mound
CLASS ACTIVITY: Attempt to create an ant mound from clay, sand and soil
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