Read Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban. Teacher records on butcher paper. In teams, carefully remove mealworms and place on a piece of paper with food. Have the students observe mealworms and record observations in their journals.
Return mealworms to their containers of bran flakes and observe their behavior.
Listen to the students' questions and have the teams choose one question that they want to find out the answer to. Carefully place mealworms in the light half of the empty containers and observe. Allow 5 minutes for each trial and time to record observations in their journals. Have the students report to their teams and present their findings to the class. Make a bar graph for the class representing what the mealworms did in the containers using either the page of mealworm pictures provided or mealworms cut out by the students.