LETS LEARN ABOUT INSECTS

 

 

Insects are arthropods (a type of invertebrate, animals that lack a backbone). All insects have a hard exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax, and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae. The legs (and wings, if applicable) are attached to the thorax. Insects breathe through holes called spiracles. Insects hatch from eggs.

 

 

INFOHIO Databases

 

http://www.infohio.org/er/secure/ebscoanimals.asp

EBSCO Animals

Click on the EBSCO rectangle.

Type in the name of your insect and click on  Search.

 

 

http://www.infohio.org/er/secure/ebscosearchasaurus.asp

Search-A-Saurus

Click on the Search-A-Saurus rectangle.

Click on Encyclopedia of Animals.

Type in the name of your insect and click on Search.

 

 

Websites

 

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/printouts.shtml

Enchanted learning

Scroll down until you find the name of your insect and click on the blue letters.

 

 

http://www.infohio.org/er/secure/ebscosearchasaurus.asp

Search-A-Saurus

Click on the Search-A-Saurus rectangle.

Click on Encyclopedia of Animals.

Type in the name of your insect and click on Search.

 

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/

Click on Animals.

Click on Insects.

Scroll down to the name of your insect.

 

Try these other websites as well:

 

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/science_and_nature/living_things/animals/invertebrates/arthropods/insects/crickets_and_grasshoppers/

Websites for crickets and grasshoppers

 

http://www.mesc.usgs.gov/resources/education/butterfly/bfly_intro.asp

Childrens butterfly website

 

http://sciencespot.net/Pages/kdzinsect.html

Kids Zone World of Insects

 

http://www.orkin.com/pestlibrary/default.asp

Orkin website on bugs

 

http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/noflash/roaches/index.html

Roaches website

 

http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/ythfacts/stories/hurtrnot.htm

Bug facts

 

http://www.heatersworld.com/bugworld/

Ants, bees, butterflies, roaches

 

http://www.oaklandzoo.org/aom/carausius_morosus.html

Walking sticks

 

http://www.honey.com/kids/

The honeybee

 

http://iris.biosci.ohio-state.edu/projects/FFiles/frfact.html

Fireflies

 

http://insected.arizona.edu/ghopperinfo.htm

Grasshoppers

 

http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/

A variety of insects

 

http://www.kidsclick.org/cgi-bin/searchkids.pl?searchtype=subject&keywords=insects&title=insects

Site for many insects

 

 

AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS

 

Videos:

 

Insect Lifecycles Educational Videos

Eyewitness Insect DK Vision

Eyewitness Butterfly and Moth DK Vision

Bill Nye the Science Guy Insects Disney Educational Producers

Insects and Spiders Dee How They Grow DK Vision

Ladybird Beetle The Bee, The Firefly Diamond Entertainment

The Spider, The Cicada, The Wasp Diamond Entertainment

The Swallowtail Butterfly, The Mosquito, The Silkworm Diamond Entertainment

 

Dont forget to look in books for information about your insect too!

 

Dragonfly by Emery Bernhard

Creepy Crawlies by Christina Coste-Longman

Bees and Wasps by David Cutts

Planet Ants by Liz Doyle

Crickets by Olive L. Earle

Creepy, Crawly Caterpillars by Margery Facklam

Bees, Wasps, and Ants by George S. Fichter

Magnificent Monarchs by Linda Glaser

The Ant by Luc Gomel

Ladybug by Karen Hartley

Bees by Ann Heinrichs

Ladybugs by Ann Heinrichs

Mosquitoes by Cari Meister

The Life and Times of the Honeybee by Charles Micucci

The True Book of Insects by Illa Podendorf

The Insect World by Keith Porter

Grasshoppers by James P. Rowan

Amazing World of Ants by Francene Sabin

Silkworms by Donna Schaffer

Ladybug by David M. Schwartz

A Wasp is Not a Bee by Marilyn Singer

Earwig Stephanie St. Pierre

Firefly by Stephanie St. Pierre

Butterfly and Moth by Paul Whalley

Flies Are Fascinating by Valerie Wilkinson