Insects - Teacher Resources

DK Worksheets

Use our workbook to enhance your lessons and students' knowledge of insects. Includes reading passages, different activities, and quizzes.

• Insect Worksheets
• More DK Worksheets

Technology Resources

Our Technology Resources will extend students' learning about insects through online research, making power point presentations, and reading passages.

• Insects on the Internet
• Kaufman Focus Guides by Kenn Kaufman

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.

• Ladybug Pattern
• Insects Bulletin Board
• Insects Bulletin Board Example

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.

• Hey There, Stink Bug! Activity Guide
• The Butterfly Story
• The Butterfly's Story
• Imaginary Insect Zoo
• The Icky Bug Counting Book Activities
• More Insect Activities

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

Earth Science Resources on Insects

Incorporate more science lessons on insects by using our resources on life cycles with reading passages and hands-on activities.

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities Booklet
• Life Cycle of Butterflies
• Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheet
• Butterfly Facts and Questions
• Butterfly Life Cycle Quiz
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar Poster & Activities
• Butterfly Garden
• More Earth Science Resources