During this webquest the students will learn about various kinds of insects, where they live, what they eat, and how they reproduce. Resources needed for the unit include Internet access, printers, live insects for display, and various art supplies. They creep around scaring grown-ups. Spiders especially like scaring mommies. It's a natural reaction to be frightened of some insects.
Many insects have the ability to harm people, and many insects look very menacing.
However, many large insects are not harmful at all. They are often found, at least with a little searching, in homes, yards, around building foundations, basements, crawl spaces, flower or vegetable gardens that are NOT heavily sprayed with pesticides, around lights at night, near streams and lakes, abandoned fields, parks, and forests. During the webquest you will be gathering information about an insect of your choice. You will be working in groups of three to find out where they live, what they eat and how they reproduce. After the information is gathered you will come back together to give the class a report with a diagram of the parts of your insect.