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- - - - Activity: Learners to make a list of all the insects they can think of and then find pictures of those insects using the internet and magazines and then classify the pictures into the 7 different groups of insects (Resource Center,2021).
      - Beetles, Bees and related insect (bees, ants and wasps), Bugs, Flies (fruit and house flies), Butterflies (butterflies and moths), Crickets and Dragonflies (Gaeng,2023).
  - - - Vertebrates and Invertebrates, three body segments (head, abdomen and thorax), jointed legs attached to the thorax, number of legs (6 or 8), antennae on head, compound or simple eyes and wings (Study.com,2022) (TheSchoolRun,2023).
      - Activity: Learners will find more pictures based on their list for the different insects activity and then use the new pictures they have found to classify each insect into the different characteristic categories of insects (Resource Center,2021).
  - - - Using their observation skills and learning to draw scientific drawings (Guieu,2016).
      - Activity: Learners will get the chance to choose an insect that they would like to observe and draw. They can either find a living insect or they can use a plastic toy insect that they will look at and draw a scientific drawing about with the right labels and layout of the drawing (Guieu,2016).
- - - - Insects help with pollination, making food and products like lac, beeswax and dyes, population control, medicinal uses and recycling (Smithsonian,1996) (University of Nebraska-Lincoln,2023).
      - Activity: I would plant flowers that are already flowering for the class to have a flower garden and it means they have an opportunity to see how insects help with flowers growing which makes our environment around us smell nice, but to show them that if insects pollinate and help the flowers, that they do the same thing when it comes to crops that are planted that will eventually result in our food that we will eat which shows that insects do help us.
  - - - Insects are harmful as they are agricultural pests, cause injuries due to their bites and stings, they spread diseases, they damage buildings and infrastructure, destroy crops and cause soil erosion (Kelby,2021) (Naroju, nd).
      - Activity: I would find and play the learners a video or a few videos that will show them and make them aware of the fact that some insects can be harmful to people, for example I would play them a video of what a swarm of locusts can do to a crop yield which can harm us because it means that the amount of food available reduces because of the crop that was lost.
- - - - Beetles, Bees and related insect (bees, ants and wasps), Bugs, Flies (fruit and house flies), Butterflies (butterflies and moths), Crickets and Dragonflies (Gaeng,2023).
      - Activity: The primary school is having an insect-themed week but don't have any insects to decorate the classrooms. Using the technology design process (Investigate, design, make, evaluate and communication) the learners will need to make any insects they want as long as they all make different insects to put up around the classroom for insect week (Graney,2020).
  - - - Aquatic, Grassland, Desert and Semi-desert and Forest habitats, sticks/ logs and bark, leaves, rocks and flowers (Pre-K Printable Fun,2015) (Museums Victoria,2023).
      - Activity: We have realised that we haven't seen many insects on our school campus and so to fix this problem, using the technological process (investigate, design, make, evaluate and communication) the learners will make a bug hotel to increase the number of insects we have on our school campus (RedTedArt,2023).