Build a Bug City Stem Insect Project
During our thematic study of insects, I challenged students to build a bug city at the Construction Center. It's amazing to me to watch what the students come up with when given a task! As I watch students work with the blocks and other materials I have provided, their work is a clear demonstration of their level of critical thinking. For example, these pictures show what two of the groups were able to construct.
Notice how they have built up from the table, how they have made nooks for individual bugs, even how they have sorted the bugs by type to let bugs of the same family "live" together.
It is of great importance to have activities such as this available in the classroom or home school settings, because hands are so important to our brains! By using hands to build, to touch, to explore, we form connections that help us not only to understand the world around us, but to think about the world around us.
Here are some other skills the children are developing by working at the Construction Center:
--Respecting the work of others
--Making choices and decisions
--Negotiating ideas
--Using creative, divergent thinking
--Dialoguing and problem solving
--Determining how real objects fit together
--Experimenting with the properties of physical objects, such as gravity, weight, stability, and balance
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This Insect thematic unit is strategically linked to academic core standards. It is divided into areas of literature, media, music, art, literacy activities, math activities, worksheets, science activities, creative writing, word wall words, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. Studying insects has never been so much fun.
Literacy Activities:
Fly Away Fly: Letter Identification
Fly Away Words: Sight Word Recognition
Buggy Bug Match: Sight Word (or Alphabet) Match
Bug Rhymes: Matching Rhymes
Ladybug Spots: Recognizing Words in Speech.
Letters Buzzing In My Name: Recognizing/Writing Letters In Names
Independent Activities
Trace & Write Letters A-Z
Math Activities:
Catching Insects: Sorting
My Bug Collection: Addition
Bug-a-Boo: Geometric Shapes
Construct a Bug: Exploring Probability.
Bugs Count: Developing Number Sense
Science Activities
Creating an Insect Zoo
Insect Memory: Matching Identical Insects.
Insect Observation: Observing Features
Insect Magnification:Using Scientific Tools
Independent Activities
Insect Body Parts
Songs/Fingerplays
Freddy Flea
The Firefly & Other Insects
The Bees
Guided Reading Books
The Insects- Level A
The Insects- Level C
Little Ladybugs
Writing Prompts/Word Wall
Our Insect Zoo
All About Lady Bugs
Insect Word Wall Words
Art Projects
Ladybug Ladybug
My Insect
Baby Bumblebee
Paint a Bug
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Help young children become writers by having a weekly writing center that is filled with learning activities that is easy to set-up and change with the them.
Contents:
Can, Have, Eat, Live, Art: Key Elements Headers
Key Details-- Writing Prompts
Label-It I Can -- Anchor Chart
Label-It Student Worksheets
Make a List I Can -- Anchor ChartChart
Make a List Student Worksheet
Insects Word Wall
Write a Story I Can -- Anchor Chart
Write a Story Prompt Worksheets
Write The Room -- Anchor Chart
Write The Room Worksheet (Sight Word)
Write The Room Word Cards
Write the Room Worksheet (Alphabet)
Write the Room Letter Cards
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STEM Skill Lessons
Insects
Students love to explore creepy crawly insects. Give them the opportunity with these fun, developmentally appropriate lessons!
Fulfills next generation science standards!
Contents Include
Build An Insect Zoo
Catching Insects
Insect Memory
Insect Observation
Insect Magnification
Insect Body Parts
Ladybug, Ladybug
My Insect
Insect Trap Engineering
Baby Bumblebee
Painting Bugs
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