It has been provided for use in educating students about the wonders of the insect world. Our objectives are to develop new integrated education materials that foster the use of live insects as teaching models and to offer teacher training in background information about arthropods and how to use them in the classroom. Students exposed to use of microscopes. They are asked to make specific observations and to transfer those observations by drawing.
Students learn that a wide variety of organisms undergo metamorphosis.
Ants for Teachers As any TEFL theory book will tell you. We need to help the students develop the many different reading skills and strategies such as gist reading, reading to confirm expectations, reading for communicative tasks etc. This unit was developed as an introduction to the world of insects for grades two to three. Although insects may be covered in greater depth in these grades, this unit is intended only to introduce children to insects in order for them to learn about insects in as many fun ways as possible. This page was last updated March 26, 1999.