STEM Insect Lessons For Kindergarten
One of my favorite parts of teaching kindergarten is how easy it is to incorporate STEM into the curriculum. Kindergartners have a natural curiosity about the world around them and a love of the natural world. My Science Center is one of the easiest areas in my classroom to prep and one of my student’s favorite places to be during the day!
And it is so easy to incorporate that science into other academic areas in my classroom, making STEM a truly cross-curricular type of teaching!
As part of our insect explorations, my students make observations about plastic insects in the sensory center, and observations about real insects that they have brought from home for our “Bug Zoo”.
During our Insect STEM explorations we practice sorting with pictures of insects, we play concentration with insect pictures (to develop working memory), we hunt for insects during recess, we label insect parts, we make insects out of shapes (and other insect art), and we construct two different types of insect traps in order to determine which one will work better.
We play math and reading games with an insect twist, sing insect songs, play insect PE games, and much more!
If you would like to try these activities in your classroom, you can find them below. You might also like to try other great STEM products.
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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
© Kindergarten Kiosk
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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
Kids love insects -- get them writing using our ready-made Insect Webquest!
Looking for an easy way to teach your students the report writing process? Use this insect report information writing activity to help your students write an informational insect report they can be proud of! Help students meet the Common Core Writing Standard for informational text with this Insect Research Project.
Table of Contents
Insect Facts
Vocabulary Word Wall
Insect Labeling Worksheet
Research Organization Charts
Research Activity For Publication
Appearance
Life Cycle
Habitat
Food
Predators and Prey
Interesting Facts
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Magnification Skill Lessons
Insects
Teach students how to use magnification tools through these fun and developmentally appropriate activities.
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
© Kindergarten Kiosk
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Bee Book Study and Writing Activities
This bee book study unit is a great way to meet important common core standards in literacy and informational text using the book The Very Greedy Bee by Steve Smallman, along with an non-fiction title on bees.
All lessons are easily adaptable to students from Pre-K through 1st grade. The lessons are fun and engaging and cover many areas of language arts. All lessons can be carried over to more than one day, depending on the time you have available.
*If you don’t have a copy of The Very Greedy Bee, or a nonfiction Bee book, they can be found readily on Youtube.
Contents Include:
Lesson #1 Prediction
Lesson #2 Inference
Lesson #3 Character Traits
Lesson #4 Story Elements
Lesson #5 Adjectives
Lesson #6 Non Fiction
Lesson #7 Celebrate
Lesson #8 Extend Through Art
© Kathy Crane Kindergarten Kiosk
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Insect Writing and Literacy Center Activities
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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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