Welcome to Elementary Insects

 
 

This website was built to provide resources for use by teachers or anyone with an interest in teaching about insects. Each training module focuses on a particular group of insects and is composed of five items:

•Student’s Booklet of Activities: Contains basic activities that can be used to educate children in the 2nd through 4th grade.

•Teacher’s booklet: Provides basic outline of how each lesson should be taught as well as the answers to the questions in the Student’s Booklet.

•Pre- and Post- evaluations of students: It is important that you know the students are learning about the target arthropod. These evaluations will allow you to do so.

•Post evaluation for teachers: It is important that you receive feedback from the teachers on how the activities can be improved or expanded. We value any comments that we might receive

•Crossword Puzzle: The puzzle presents questions and answers in a relatively non-challenging format. Some units have interactive crossword puzzles.


 

This website is operated by Kim Schofield and Molly Keck, Texas AgriLife Extension Program Specialists in Dallas and San Antonio, respectively. Some of the source material was originally developed with help from a United States Department of Agriculture grant.



Extension Entomology Blogs


  1. •Bexar County Entomology

  2. •Exoskeleton Express (Dallas)

  3. •Insects in the City (Dallas)

  4. •Urban IPM (Austin)


Texas A&M Dept. of Entomology

  1. •Homepage

  2. •Facebook page

  3. •YouTube page


Other links

  1. •School IPM in Texas

  2. •4-H Entomology Learning Site

  3. •4-H and Youth Entomology

  4. •Texas AgriLife Extension