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INSECTS
What is an insect
Invertebrate animal is an animal without a vertebrae (does not have a backbone or spine (Australian Museum, 2020).
An insect is a small invertebrate animal (Australian Museum, 2020).
Observing invertebrate and vertebrate animals
Show pictures of invertebrate and vertebrate animals, eg grasshopper &
Characteristics of Insects
Insects have 6 legs
Identifying and observing an insects' body parts
Learners identify the body parts of an insect fr
Insects have three body parts. a head, thorax, and the abdomen (Britannica Kids. n.d).
Thorax- (middle) Has three pairs of legs. Some insects one
or two pairs of wings.
Abdomen- (bottom) Contains organs that digests food.
Head (top)- contains (feelers) antennas, mouthparts, and eyes.
Types of Insects
Various types of insect such as, ants, grasshoppers, butterflies, flies, mosquitos, moths, wasps, beetles, bees, (Robinette and Semrad, 2002).
Observing and identifying different types of insects
Show figurines of different types of insects
Habitat
observing and investigating
Learners observe insects and their habitat in the school garden.
Insects can be found almost everywhere on earth such as land, water, forests, mountains, and deserts (EduRev, 2026).
Useful/harmful Insects
Learners compare helpful and harmful insects by putting the pictures into the correct coumn.
Some insects are helpful such as bees for pollination, and some insects are harmful such as mosquitos (EduRev,2026).
comparing and commnunication
Insect locomotion
observing and identifying
Insects move in various ways, such as walking, running, jumping, flying, climbing, burrowing, and swimming (Rahman, 2024).
Learners will go out in the school garden and observe the way insects move.
Life cycle
Learners observe the life cycle of a caterpillar
Most insects go through stages called metamorphisis
observe
Diet
What do insects eat? Insects eat plants, animals, and a variety of other things (Britannica. n.d)
Behaviour
Some insects hide by blending in with their surroundings to protect themselves (Britannica Kids. n.d.)