Invertebrates - Review Week

Watch any films the student particularly enjoyed during the invertebrates unit.
Re-read any books the student particularly enjoyed during the unit.

Activities:
(over the course of five days)

1. What is a mollusk? List the kinds of mollusks learned and give an example of each.
2. What is a cnidarian? List the kinds of cnidarians learned and give an example of each.
3. What is an echinoderm? List the kinds of echinoderms learned and give an example of each. 
4. What is a poriferan?  How do they help the ocean? What is an annelid?  Name three kinds of annelids. 
5. [On a piece of paper, recreate the arthropod tree with the meanings of the scientific names.] Student pastes the correct scientific designations over the meanings, gives examples of each kind of animal.

Arthropods - Insecta - Neoptera - Hemipterodea

(book lice, bugs, and plant bugs)
Bark lice, Psocoptera
Pictures of Psocoptera (book lice)
Amazing Cicada life cycle - Sir David Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth - BBC wildlife

Vocabulary Added:
hemipterodean: half-winged

Activity:
Draw a book louse, aphid, and cicada
Go to creek; find cicada and waterboatman
Add hemipterodea to Animal Kingdom tree

Arthropods - Insecta - Neoptera - Holometabola - Coleoptera

(beetles)
Jewels of the Insect World - Amazing Tropical Beetles
African Dung Beetles
Click Beetles
BeetleFight2
Fireflies near the Hudson River (NYC)

Fireflies in the Night by Judy Hawes
Ladybugs by Cheryl Coughlan
Beetles by Cheryl Coughlan

Vocabulary Added:
coleoptera: hidden-wing

Activity:
Draw and label parts of a beetle
Go outside and catch some beetles
Add coleoptera to Animal Kingdom tree

Arthropods - Insecta - Neoptera - Holometabola - Hymenoptera

(ants, bees, and wasps)
The Ichneumon Wasp
NATURE | Silence of the Bees | Inside the Hive | PBS
Ants create a lifeboat in the Amazon jungle - BBC Wildlife
Could you pass the bullet ant test?

World of Animals vol 27.  "Wasps, Ants, Bees..."
Wasps at Home by Bianca Lavies
Busy Ants by Kristin L. Nelson
The Bumblebee Queen by April Pulley Sayre and Patricia J. Wynne

Vocabulary Added:
hymenoptera: membrane-winged

Activity:
Draw and label parts of an ant, bee, wasp
Go outside and locate ants, bees, and wasps.  Be careful.

Arthropods - Insecta - Neoptera - Holometabola - Lepidoptera

(butterflies and moths)
Monarch butterfly - amazing migration
Butterfly eggs and caterpillar survival - Life in the Undergrowth - BBC Attenborough
The Clear Wing Hummingbird Moth

From Egg to Butterfly by Shannon Zemlicka
A Butterfly is Patient by Diana Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long

Vocabulary Added:
lepidoptera: scale-wing

Activity:
Draw and label parts of a butterfly, moth
Go outside and catch butterflies
Add lepidoptera to the Animal Kingdom tree

Arthropods - Insecta - Neoptera - Holometabola - Diptera

(flies, mosquitos)
Invasive Fire Ants lose heads to flies
The Mosquito

Flying Mosquitos by Janet Piehl
Flies by Larry Dane Brimmer

Vocabulary Added:
holometabola: whole-change
diptera: two-winged

Activity:
Draw and label a fly, mosquito
Go on "sight-seeing" field trip.  Look for flies, mosquitos, larvae
Add dipterans to the Animals Kingdom tree

Arthropods - Insecta - Neoptera - Orthopterodea

Cockroaches
Praying Mantis Attacks Snake!
Termite World - Life in the Undergrowth - BBC Attenborough
Plagues of Locusts - Wild Africa - BBC

Cricket by Heather L. Miller
Leaping Grasshoppers by Christine Zuchora-Walske

(Cockroaches, Mantids, Termites, Stoneflies, Grasshoppers, Earwigs, Stick and Leaf Insects)

Vocabulary Added:
neoptera: new-wing
orthopterodea: straight-winged-like

Activity:
Catch some grasshoppers, earwigs, and possibly a mantis.  Avoid cockroaches and termites.
Draw and label a praying mantis and other orthopterans
Add orthoptera to Animal Kingdom tree (praying mantis)

Arthropods - Insecta - Apterygotes and Palaeopterans

Handfeeding a Dragonfly
Mayfly swarming - Wild Wonders of Europe

Dragonflies by Cheryl Coughlan

Vocabulary Added:
apterygote: no-wings
palaeoptera: primitive-wing

Activity:
Walk to creek; look for dragonfly
Draw and label a dragonfly, mayfly, or damselfly
Add paleopterans to the Animal Kingdom tree

Arthropods - Insecta - Overview

Invertebrates Insects | Biology 
10 Extremely Dangerous Insects

Field Guide to Insects and Spiders - National Audubon Society
First Field Guide to Insects - National Audubon Society
Bug Faces by Darlyne A. Murawski
Biggest Bugs by George Beccaloni

Vocabulary Added:
insecta: cut in sections

Activity:
Add insect branch to Animal Kingdom tree
Go hunt for insects outside