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INSECTS, Creating their own compound eyes with egg cartons, paper bowl,…
INSECTS
Natural Sciences
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What do insects eat
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Insects eat roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, pollen, spores, sap and other plant parts or plant secretions
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Adult mosquitos feed on nectar from from flowering plants. Female mosquitos feed of human blood, bird blood and small mammals
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Technology
Observing
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Activity
Walk around the school grounds and observe the different insects around.
When they find one, they
capture it and place it in the plastic container.
Thereafter ask them to draw the insect and label the insects body part.
How insects survive
Discover why flies are so fast and difficult to catch.
They have compound eyes to help see small movements
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Social Sciences
How some insects harm us
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Bed bugs and mosquitoes bite humans and suck blood, causing many diseases. Mosquitos feed off our human blood and can leave mosquito bites that can be itchy,
Activity
Create a poster titled "Staying Safe from Harmful Insects." Draw or place pictures of each harmful insect and write down the safety measures next to them. Encourage the learners to draw what they think would happen if a specific insect had to harm them.
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Habitat of insects
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Hives as a Habitat
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Animals make unique structures called hives, where many insects live together.
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Terrestrial Habitat
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These mounds are made using mud or soil, water and the saliva secreted by the insects.
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Activity
Walk around the school grounds and identify the different habitat and what insects you would find in those habitats.
Creating their own compound eyes with egg cartons, paper bowl, bubble wrap, scissors and glue
Divide the class into groups of 4. Each group must cut the egg carton into 12 individual cups. Then glue the egg cups to the bottom of the paper bowl.
They then cut the bubble wrap into 12 hexagons so it represents the lenses and glue one
lens to the bottom of each cup.
Once each group has completed its compound eye model, ask each child to answer the following questions --->
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Provide the learners with ice cream sticks, pipe cleaners, large and small flower templates, lab paper for wings, and powder or finely grinded chalk.
- Have the learners make their bee with the ice cream stick, lab paper for wings. Cut the pipe cleaners in half and use the pipe cleaners to hold the wings down to a stick. The stick represents the insect’s body and the two ends of the pipe cleaner form the insect’s legs.
2.Put the powder or grinded chalk in the middle of the large flower. The learners will then gently tap the feet(pipe cleaners) in the powder. They will then discuss what they see after tapping it in the powder,
- The learners will then have their bee fly to the smaller flower and tap the excess powder.
This will show they how pollen is transferred from plant to plant.
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Get the learners to take a walk around the school grounds and identify the different insects. Students can use a magnifying glass if needed