LEARNING ABOUT INSECTS

Using the insect learning box provided by the Center for Native and Urban Wildlife at Scottsdale Community College, we did some informal learning about insects. We sang an insect song, played insect scavenger hunt, colored pictures of insects, and played with insect puppets and plastic insects. We focused on ways in which insects are important to the ecosystem and can be helpful to the environment. Some of the older children read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Very Quiet Cricket (both by Eric Carle) to their peers.