The Interesting World of Insects

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THE INCREDIBLE WORLD OF INSECTS By Cristen
Carlsen
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Table of Contents

• What is an Insect?
• How do Insects Move?
• How do They Communicate?
• Where do They Live?
• Flying Insects
• Social Insects
• Ground Insects
• Bibliography

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What is an Insect?

• A small animal with a hard shelled body.
• All insects hatch from eggs.
• The body of an insect has 3 parts head, thorax,
  and abdomen.
• There are more than a million species of insects
  on the earth. Some of the most common ones are
  ants, butterflies, moths, bees, beetles,
  grasshoppers, fleas, crickets, flies, and
  mosquitoes.

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How do Insects Move?

• Fly
• Crawl
• Hop and Fly
• Visit the exciting World of Insects at
  http//www.insect-world.com/insects/six.html

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How do Insects Communicate?

• Crickets communicate at night. Grasshoppers
  communicate during the day. Both make sounds by
  rubbing their rear legs against the edges of
  their wings or by rubbing one leg or one wing
  against the other. These sounds are called
  chirps.
• Bees do special dances that communicate messages
  to other bees.
• Ants have no voice, they do not communicate with
  sound. They leave messages through secretions
  which they pass throughout the colony by touching
  each other.

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How do Insects Live?

• Ants are known as social insects. They live
  together in organized communities called
  colonies. Most members of an ant colony are
  workers. Workers are female but do not lay eggs
  as does the queen.
• Bees live together in colonies called nests or
  hives.

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Insects that Fly...

• Bees
• Butterflies
• Moths

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Social Grouped Insects...

• Ants
• Bees

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Grounded Insects...

• Ants
• Grasshoppers
• Crickets

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Bibliography

• Teaching Young Children Using Themes by
  Kostelink, Howe Payne, Rohde, Spalding, Stein,
  and Whitebeck. Good Year Books, Illinois. 1991.
• The Preschool Calendar by Sherrill B. Flora.
  Instructional Fair, Michigan. 2000.
• Link to My Lesson Plan that can be adapted to use
  with this Power Point Presentation.
  Http//www.oakland.edu/cjcarlse/Lesson Plan.doc