Insects - Teacher Resources
Bugs are fascinating creatures. Explore all sorts of creepy crawlers with insect lessons, printables, and quizzes for elementary, intermediate, and secondary school students. You'll find a variety of cross-curricular activities on these invertebrates that connect science with art, math, language arts, and social studies. From printables on the life cycle of butterflies to a ladybug science activity to a spiders quiz, there are many diverse resources on nature to keep students' interest.
DK Worksheets
Use our workbook to enhance your lessons and students' knowledge of insects. Includes reading passages, different activities, and quizzes.Technology Resources
Our Technology Resources will extend students' learning about insects through online research, making power point presentations, and reading passages.Bulletin Board Ideas
Bulletin boards are a great way to increase the conversation and learning about insects. Have your students make lady bugs for your bulletin board with our resources.Printables
Teach your students about insects with these printables. Includes a book with enrichment activities for science, mathematics, and spelling, as well as making an insect mobile.- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities Booklet
- Finding & Counting Insects: Where Is Everybody?
- Body Parts of an Ant
- Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheet
- Animal Habitat Crossword Puzzle
- Animal Apartments
- Vertebrates and Invertebrates Word Fill-In
- More Insect Printables
Lesson Plans
Our Lesson Plans will help students understand insects with activities such as reading and drawing conclusions, experimenting which foods ants are draw to, and a hands-on creation of a butterfly garden.- Life Cycle of Butterflies
- "The Grasshopper and the Owl": A Fable by Aesop
- Camouflage
- What Foods Attract Ants?
- Butterfly Garden
- More Insect Lesson Plans
Clip Art
Students will enjoy your lessons with our clip art pictures added to your printables or presentations.- Butterfly
- Insect Coins
- Stag Beetle
- Grasshopper
- Dragonfly
- Insect Habitats
- Horsefly
- More Insect Clip Art
Insect Activities for Art, Music, & Drama
Interconnect the arts into your lessons to expand students' learning. Includes a cross-curricular guide, as well as, creative writing and drawing imaginary insects, and making posters about insect observations.Literature & Language Arts Activities on Insects
Choose from these activities to help students expand their knowledge. Includes non-fiction reading passages to help students practice their skills, and a printable guide with writing and comprehension questions.- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities Booklet
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Two Bad Ants Teacher's Guide
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Poster & Activities
- Grossology
- Ladybugs Reading Warm-Up
- The Works of Eric Carle: Quiz & Answer Key
- More Activities for Literature & Language Arts
Insect Activities for Math Class
Math activities can be interconnected with your lessons on insects to increase students' skills with activities including multiplication and demonstrating an understanding of large numbers, as well as counting.- Place Value through Hundreds (Gr. 3)
- Communities - Teacher Checklist
- Spider Count
- Literature & Math: The Best Bug Parade & The ABCs of Art
Insects & Social Studies Connected
Explore insect connections using these social studies resources. Includes a cross-curricular guide which improves students' reading comprehension and geography skills, as well as a printable on why the Chinese kept insects.- Second-Grade Soil Scientists
- Communities Vocabulary
- Science and Social Studies: Spiders
- How the Chinese Use Insects
- Kingfisher Knowledge Guide: Dangerous Creatures Teacher's Guide
- Social Insects
- What Makes Your Hive Thrive? Worksheet
- More Resources for Social Studies Class
Science Activities on Insects
Extend your insect lessons using these science resources. Includes kid-friendly books on insects, an ant experiment, and comparing different kinds of bees.- Life Cycle of Butterflies
- A Butterfly's Life Cycle
- Grossology
- Butterfly Garden
- The Ants Have It!
- Dominant or Recessive?
- Bees
- More Science Activities