Full Description
Here is an extensive integrated unit of study focused on that common and familiar insect-the cricket. In this edition, teachers are given a complete guide and reproducible worksheets for elementary and middle school students. With over 30 different activities on crickets, students learn science content and skills including:
·Taxonomy
·Anatomy
·Ecology
·Mark and recapture techniques for estimating population size
·Reading biological distribution maps, and
·Caring for living organisms in the classroom
Many activities involve hands-on science investigations while other activities involve reading, writing, and using graphic organizers to compare crickets to kids and other insects. This book includes learning logs, which can serve as an assessment tool for the teacher and technological applications 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 this teacher edition. It is perfectly 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, Student Edition
Contents
Chapter 3 Finding Crickets and Describing Cricket Habitats
Chapter 4 Respecting Crickets
Chapter 5 Counting Crickets that Live in Your Schoolyard
Chapter 6 Counting Crickets Again and Collecting Crickets
Chapter 7 Designing and Creating Cricket Habitats
Chapter 8 Reading about Crickets
Chapter 9 Comparing Kids and Crickets
Chapter 10 Looking at Crickets
Chapter 11 Constructing Models of Crickets
Chapter 12 Reading More about Crickets & Using Cricket Words
Chapter 13 Coloring Cricket Body Parts
Chapter 14 Identifying Cricket Story Parts
Chapter 15 Finding Cricket Habitat Preferences
Chapter 16 Cricket Connoisseurs
Chapter 17 Thinking about Feeding Crickets & Feeding Crickets
Chapter 18 Lifestyles of Crickets
Chapter 19 Measuring and Comparing Leg Lengths
Chapter 20 Jumping Crickets
Chapter 21 Singing or Chirping, Chirping or Singing
Chapter 22 Chirping Crickets
Chapter 23 Reading About Chirping Crickets: Fact and Fiction
Chapter 24 Readers' Theater: Crickets on Call
Chapter 25 Cricket Life Cycles
Chapter 26 Molting Nymphs/Aging Crickets
Chapter 27 Crickets in Our Country
Chapter 28 Crickets around the World: So Many Ways to Say "Cricket"
Chapter 29 Naming Crickets
Chapter 30 Cricket Conference: A Humanities Symposium
Chapter 31 Cricket Conference: A Scientific Symposium
Chapter 32 The Singing Insects
Chapter 33 Songs of the Singers
