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Before They Were Pests: Grades 3-5

Lesson Overview

National Science Education Standards

  • Science as Inquiry, Content Standard A: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry.
  • Life Science, Content Standard C: The characteristics of organisms, Life cycles of organisms, Organisms and environments, diversity and adaptations of organisms.
  • Science in Personal and Social Perspectives, Content Standard F: Personal health, Changes in environments.
  • History and Nature of Science, Content Standard G: Science as a human endeavor.

Key Concepts

  • Habitat
  • Adaptation
  • Observation
  • Life cycle
  • Communication
  • Ecology
  • Animal Behavior

Vocabulary Words

  • Adaptation
  • Ambient temperature
  • Antennae
  • Colony
  • Decomposition
  • Evolve
  • Exoskeleton
  • Filamentous
  • Habitat
  • Host
  • Immature
  • Larvae
  • Metamorphosis
  • Microclimate
  • Nymph
  • Overwinter
  • Parasite
  • Pheromone
  • Pupae
  • Pupate
  • Reproduce
  • Scavenger
  • Species
  • Territory

 

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