What lives in the grass? What's on the flowers? What’s buzzing around your head? What lives in the bushes? What’s sitting on the wall?  What lives in the garden?

You will never hear my junior entomologists ask those questions but they just might show you.   We always have bug books! With big colorful pictures and bite size chunks of information. My boys are on the move so we need to keep our information short and sweet. Our youngest is the official bug hunter, zip lock bag in hand, he is on the prowl. Once the creatures are captured the boys look through the books to further understand their new pet. Yes, you heard me correctly. Our newest additions, three crickets.

Supplies Needed:  Bug Books, zip lock bags, yard and a child or two.  On a rainy day, fake bugs from the dollar store will satisfy those curious minds.  

Things to Learn:  Everything you ever wanted to see about the world of creepy-crawlies, within and around your yard.  This is a great time to teach your children how to use the index and glossary to learn more about their amazing creature.

Lesson Plan
Investigation and Experimentation -Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations. Students should develop their own questions and perform investigations.  Repeat observations to improve accuracy and know that the results of similar scientific investigations seldom turn out exactly the same because of differences in the things being investigated, methods being used, or uncertainty in the observation.  *California State Board of Education, grade 3