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Insects
Natural Sciences
Sub-Topic 1: Different Types of Insects
Activity: Hunting for a Bug - Give the learners different types of toy animals and insects and ask them to classify and sort the different insects and animals
Concept 2: Fly, Mosquito, Butterfly, Locust, Grasshopper, Cockroach, Bee, Beetle etc.
Concept 1: What are insects? TheSchoolRun (2023) states that an insect is a tiny animal that has a body divided into three segments, it has six legs and usually has two pairs of wings.
Sub-Topic 2: Characteristics of Insects
Concept 2: Different Shapes and Sizes of Insects - Some insects can fly and some insects are larger than the other. Such as a ladybug is tiny whereas a grasshopper is larger in size.
Activity: Label the Ant - Give each learner a clear picture of an ant with arrows pointing to each part of the body and ask the learners to label each body part by observing the diagram.
Concept 1: Parts of an insect: Antenna > Head > Eyes > Thorax > Abdomen > Leg < Wings
Sub-Topic 3: Life Cycle of an Insect
Concept 2: How does an insect grow?
Concept 1: Life Cycle of a Butterfly - Egg > Larva/Caterpillar > Pupa/Chrysalis > Adult Butterfly
Activity: Life Cycle of a Butterfly on a Cardboard - Ask each learner to bring pictures of a butterfly life cycle and provide them with circular shaped cardboard large enough for them to stick each picture in a cycle diagram with arrows and get them to make it as attractive and colourful as they like.
Technology
Sub-Topic 2: Different Shapes and Sizes of Insects
Activity: Ask the learners to build and mould different insects of their choice out of clay or play dough.
Concept 1: Some insects are smaller than the other.
Sub-Topic 1: Where do insects live?
Concept 1: Where do insects live? Bees live in hives and produce beeswax and honey
Activity: Get the learners to design a 3D Insect Kingdom on a durable board
Sub-Topic 3: Investigate what food insects eat
Ask the learners to design a poster with the different food that insects eat.
Concept 1: Insects eat stems, roots, flowers, fruit etc.
Social Sciences
Sub-Topic 2: How do insects harm us?
Concept 2: How do some insects help us?
Bees are the largest pollinators in the insect kingdom and they assist in producing honey and increasing the food diversity on the whole according to UN Environment Programme (2022).
Activity: Ask the learners to sort the insects names you provide them with into two column named harmful & harmless.
Concept 1: Which insects can be harmful? According to Basu (2023), The following insects are the top most dangerous in the world, fleas, blister beetles, louse etc.
Sub-Topic 1: Where do Insects live?
Activity: Provide the learners with a worksheet with colourful pictures of about five different insects and their homes. Ensure it is shuffled. And get the learners to match the insect to their home.
Concept 2: Do insects live in a kingdom? Some insects work harder than the other whereby there are king and queen insects according to Britannica Kids (2023).
Concept 1: How do insects live & survive?
Britannica Kids (2023) states that insects live world wide. Some insects prefer to live in groups while other insects prefer to live alone. For example, bees live in groups in bee hives. And they survive off pollen, water and shelter.
Sub-Topic 3: Adaptation of Insects
Concept 2: Some insects have other forms of protection such as hard shells to help them survive in certain habitats for example, some insects sting as a defense mechanism.
Activity: Get the learners to research at home where different types of insects live and adapt and populate them on an A2 poster.
Concept 1: Behaviour of an insect - Most insects protect themselves by becoming a type of camouflage according to Britannica Kids (2023).