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Insects - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Class activity: Discuss with the learners the different insects they know of and make a list with them writing the insects they name on the chalk board. Remember to mention the characteristics to ensure that what they name are insects. Now let learners complete a worksheet where the group animals that are insects and those that are not.
- - - - Metamorphosis
        
        Incomplete metamorphosis: When some insects hatch from eggs, the young look like small versions of the adults of their species, this is the incomplete metamorphosis process. The insect grows and gets new covering eventually becoming an adult. Cockroaches, lice and grasshoppers go through this kind of growth process.
        
        Complete metamorphosis: This happens in four different stages. Once the eggs have hatched they begin a life in the form called larva, this is the growth phase. Larva spend a lot of time eating. Then it enters a resting stage called a pupa. This is the transformation phase where the pupa's body changes a lot. The insect is in a hard shell called a chrysalis and it is where it grows its adult features, including legs and wing. Once this stage is complete, the a fully formed adult emerges from the chrysalis. Butterflies, moths and bees are some insects that develop this way.
        
        Class Activity: The Life Cycle of a Butterfly: For the activity you will use a cardboard, paper cutouts of a leaf, a butterfly, a caterpillar and a chrysalis. A mark, paint(with paintbrushes), a small stick, scissors and wood glue.
        First get the learners to paint the butterfly, caterpillar, leaf and the chrysalis. Once they are done painting and they have dried learners can cut them out. Then on the cardboard they can begin to glue the elements starting with the leaf in the top left corner, then the caterpillar in the top right corner, the stick and chrysalis in the bottom right corner and the butterfly in the bottom left corner. Then on the chalk board you can show the learners how to label them and where to put the arrows to complete the life cycle.
- - - - Class activity: Making Egg carton ants: For this activity you will need Egg cartons, piper cleaners, paint(with paint brushes), scissors, glue and small white circle cut outs. Now let learners cut up the egg cartons for the body of the ant, 3 pieces in a row. Then let them paint the ant either black or brown. Once dry using the scissors help the learners make 3 hole on either side of the middle part of the egg carton ant body. Then two hole in the head of the ant. Now put 3 pipe cleaners through the holes you made in the middle part for the ants legs and 1 pipe cleaner in the head to make the antennae. Lastly glue the two small white circle paper cut outs under the antennae for the eyes of your ant and now the ant is complete.
  - - - Helpful Insects: Helpful insects help with keeping pests away from our gardens by eating the other insects, like ladybugs. Some insects are food for other animals. Other insects help spread something called pollen from male plants to female plant to help the female to make seeds. Butterflies help spread pollen but bees are the biggest distributors of pollen. And some insect make valuable products. For example we get honey from bees, we get silk for insect larvae and we get dye from insects called Cochineal bugs.
      - Harmful Insects: Some insects can be harmful to humans and other animals. There are some insects that can destroy crops and plants, they also eat and destroy wood, clothing and carpets. An example of that is termites that eat wood. There are some insects that can sting or bite humans and animals, like wasps or hornets. And there are other insects that can spread disease to human and other animals, like mosquitoes.