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Insect Lesson Plans

An important part of elementary education is making learning fun. Creating fun science lesson plans may be one of the hardest lesson plans for educators to create. One way to create fun science lesson plans is to study something that most kids are already fascinated in, like amazing facts and information about insects. With more kinds of insects on earth than any other kind of living creature, there's a wealth of information available to make science lesson plans fun.

Kids will be interested to learn that 95% of all the animal species on the earth are insects. Fun science lesson plans can focus on just one type of insect at a time, or can start with an overview of the over one million species of insects that have been discovered by scientists. Samples of some of these creepy crawlers can really make elementary education fun.

Not only will kids like finding insects around the school yard, they'll love seeing exotic samples from around the world. By comparing the many different types of insects, your science lesson plans can include important information about how bugs are so adaptable and able to evolve over time. With all the fun facts about insects, your students will receive an in-depth elementary education in the science behind bugs, while having a wonderful time.

Remember... All insects must have:

- three body parts - a head, thorax, and abdomen 
- six jointed legs 
- two antennae to sense the world around them 
- an exoskeleton (outside skeleton)