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19627 Walnut Street
P.O. Box 157
Trimble, OH 45782
Phone: 740-767-4938
FAX: 740-767-4957
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Rural Action
19627 Walnut Street
P.O. Box 157
Trimble, OH 45782
Phone: 740-767-4938
FAX: 740-767-4957
Rural Action Home
E-mail Rural Action:
info@ruralaction.org
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Insects,
Bugs, and Spiders
What's
the difference between insects, bugs, and spiders? This ELP Learning
Episode answers the question by exploring up-close the basics about
insects, bugs, and spider classification and behavior. This lesson also
discusses the beneficial jobs insects perform in nature.
Using Live Insects in Elementary Classrooms for Early Lessons in Life,
funded by the National Institutes of Health Science Education Partnership
Award, is a program dedicated to introducing health topics to children
in kindergarten through third grade. The result is a printable collection
of twenty integrated lessons with science and math activities that use
live insects. http://insected.arizona.edu/uli.htm
Teaching with Bugs! A host of activities for the classroom include
building an ant farm, mapping insect behavior, determining whether cockroaches
can learn, building model bugs, studying metamorphosis, learning classification,
mounting specimens, and studying insect habitats. http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/teachercenter/pg000065.htm
The Bug Club for Young Entomologists is a club devoted to young
people and the young at heart who find insects and other creepy crawlies
interesting and even fascinating. The site has Care sheets for pet bugs,
a section to help identify an insect, a forum to ask the experts your
questions, and a sample newsletter. http://www.ex.ac.uk/bugclub/
Entomology for Beginners! Entomology is the study of insects. This
page provides some basic information on insects. First a quick look
at the anatomy of adult insects, and then a short story about the metamorphosis
of insects. http://www.bijlmakers.com/entomology/begin.htm
Journey North! Over 6,000 schools, representing more than 300,000
students, participated in the Spring 2001 Journey North Program. The
journeys of a dozen migratory species are tracked each spring. Students
share their own field observations with classrooms across the Hemisphere.
Visit this site if you're interested in participating in the 2002 journey!
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/current.html
Caterpillars & Mystery Bugs! From the University of Kentucky, this
site is designed for teachers, students, and anyone else who wants to
pursue an interest in Entomology. Several articles give resources and
basic information about insects and their relatives, while others outline
activities with different insect themes. http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/ythfacts/entyouth.htm
Butterflies of North America! The Butterflies of North America Web
site is a "work in progress," consisting primarily of the following
information:
1. Distribution maps showing the counties in which occurrence of a particular
species has been verified, 2. Photos of the adult and caterpillar (when
available), 3. Species accounts containing information on size, identifying
characteristics, life history, flight, caterpillar hosts, adult food,
habitat, species range, conservation status, and management needs, and
4. Species checklists for each county in the U. S. and state in northern
Mexico. http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/bflyusa.htm
Bug Me! Classroom Activities for Teaching About Bugs is a site from
Education World with lesson plans for 10 activities for teaching and
learning with bugs. Each activity includes a brief description, objectives,
keywords, materials needed, the lesson plan, and assessment. http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson192.shtml
Welcome
to our Spider Pages! These pages are the ongoing result of a theme
of work on Spiders by 10 year-old children at Rochedale State School
in Australia, done in the second term of each year. Most of this work
has been researched or written by these children. Click on the picture
to go to the topic. Have a go at the Spider Hunt Game before you leave
and please sign the Guest Book when you've finished. http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~glen/spider.htm
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