Appropriate for grades 1-3 with help from cross age tutors. After visiting the Insects Home Page, students study the anatomy of an ant and show they can interpret information from diagrams. In their journals, students draw an ant with correctly labeled body parts to show their understanding of a reference book on ants. Appropriate for grades 1-3 with help from cross age tutors. Students print a copy of the recipe to paste in their journals.
Students also create their own food recipes which is inspired by their favorite bugs.
The final product for this unit is a whole-class activity in which the students write and illustrate their own ant stories and then read them aloud to the class. Performance Standards Specific criteria for evaluating each product may be found at the end of each student activity. Please take a minute to complete the Teacher Evaluation .