Insect Lifecycles
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Video: Insect Lifecycles
Students learn about simple metamorphosis, complete metamorphosis, and the entire insect lifecycle. Includes live close-up footage of a painted lady butterfly, waxworm moth, silkworm, milkweed bug, and more. Detailed animations give students a unique perspective of the world's largest animal group.
Student Application
Explore the amazing changes, called metamorphosis, insects go through from eggs to adults.
Learning Objectives
- Students will identify the characteristics of an insect. Insects are small animals with a head, a thorax, an abdomen, and six legs. All insects start their lives as eggs. These eggs can be different colors, shapes, sizes, and patterns.
- Students will understand the process of metamorphosis. The change that occurs when an insect e...
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Supporting Activities
- Pasta Lifecycle: Use pasta to show the lifecycle of a butterfly. Use cavatelli for the caterpillar, small circles for the eggs, shells for the chrysalis and bow ties for the butterfly. Glue them onto a piece of construction paper folded into 4 parts. Draw arrows to define the stages of the lifecycle. Have students label each phase.
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