Teacher Resources Terrific Topics. Each theme incorporates lesson plans across all Learning Areas and contains suggested resources, activities, assessment ideas and Internet sites. Once you have subscribed to MacquarieNet , type in your password, click on For Teacher's to go to the Teacher's Staffroom, choose the Primary Staffroom and click on Lesson Plans and then the Learning Area, in this case Science and English . This lesson looks at common bugs and discusses those we should avoid and how they are a part of our environment. Uses picture talks, a student worksheet and craft activity.
Students read a newspaper article about a restaurant that serves insects.
Their task is to prepare the menu for a meal made from assorted bugs. The three minibeasts episodes are due to be rebroadcast in the second half of 2001. This program explores Australian animals and looks at their physical features, food, habitat and social groupings. Butterflies , Ants , Spiders . They keep a spider log, conduct a group research project and present their findings to the class to become a spider expert.