Collect and organize quantitative information into charts, graphs, and tables. Read and interpret graphs, charts, and tables. Begin to investigate the use of odds, probabilities, and likelihoods in describing hereditary traits. Establish a mealworm culture in your classroom. Cockroaches and Things has a section on caring for a mealworm culture.
Mealworms show metamorphosis.
Ask each group of students to draw a series of pictures depicting the life cycle of the mealworm. When the drawings are complete, ask them to meet with another group and compare their products. Contact a grade one teacher and ask whether you can survey the members of her class with respect to the same traits. Repeat this for a grade 11 class. Possible traits are shoe size, little finger length, wrist circumference, pulse rate, and eye colour.