Full Description
The Cricket Chronicles presents an extensive integrated unit of study focused on that familiar insect—the cricket. Teachers are given a complete guide and reproducible worksheets for elementary and middle school students. With more than 30 different activities on crickets, students learn science content and skills including:
·Taxonomy
·Anatomy
·Ecology
·Marking and recapturing techniques for estimating population size
·Reading biological distribution maps
·Caring for living organisms in the classroom
Many activities involve hands-on science investigations; others incorporate reading, writing, and using graphic organizers to compare crickets to kids and other insects.
This book includes learning logs to help students complete all activities and assist the teacher in assessment. Technological applications are also included such as cricket songs, which can be downloaded and played in the classroom. Everything a teacher needs to know or do to successfully teach this unit is covered in The Cricket Chronicles, which is designed for classrooms of any size and is an original and fun alternative to the typical science curriculum.
See also:Challenging Science and Literacy Activities for K-9 Students - The Cricket Chronicles, Teacher Edition
Contents
Chapter 1 Finding Crickets & Describing Cricket Habits
Chapter 2 Respecting Crickets
Chapter 3 Counting Crickets That Live in Your Schoolyard
Chapter 4 Counting Crickets Again & Collecting Crickets
Chapter 5 Designing & Creating Cricket Habitats
Chapter 6 Reading about Crickets
Chapter 7 Comparing Kids and Crickets
Chapter 8 Looking at Crickets
Chapter 9 Constructing Models of Crickets
Chapter 10 Reading More about Crickets & Using Cricket Words
Chapter 11 Coloring Cricket Body Parts
Chapter 12 Identifying Cricket Story Parts
Chapter 13 Finding Cricket Habitat Preferences
Chapter 14 Cricket Connoisseurs
Chapter 15 Thinking about Feeding Crickets & Feeding Crickets
Chapter 16 Lifestyles of Crickets
Chapter 17 Measuring and Comparing Leg Lengths
Chapter 18 Jumping Crickets
Chapter 19 Singing or Chirping, Chirping or Singing
Chapter 20 Chirping Crickets
Chapter 21 Reading about Chirping Crickets: Fact and Fiction
Chapter 22 Readers' Theater: Crickets on Call
Chapter 23 Cricket Life Cycles
Chapter 24 Molting Nymphs/Aging Crickets
Chapter 25 Crickets in Our Country
Chapter 26 Crickets around the World
Chapter 27 Naming Crickets
Chapter 28 Cricket Conference: A Humanities Symposium
Chapter 29 Cricket Conference: A Scientific Symposium
Chapter 30 The Singing Insects
Chapter 31 Songs of the Singers
