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What are Insects?
Animal Planet's Introduction to Insects
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/animal-facts/insect-info.htm
Lots more about insects can be found at Animal Corner http://www.animalcorner.co.uk/insects/insects/html
What are insects and their mouthparts? Find out
You can also purchase the curriculum from: http://ifasbooks.ifas.ufl.edu/p-322-abcs-of-entomology.aspx.
Urban Integrated Pest Management
Want to learn more about Urban Integrated Pest Management? How about School IPM? This site is a great resource for schools and teachers interested in teaching children how their activities and actions can affect pest populations in the school. The site contains resources, news, calendar of events, and much more. Learn more
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Imported Fire Ants. Want to learn more about imported Fire Ants? How about K-12 teacher content on imported Fire Ants? This site is a great resource from Fire Ant control (management) to teaching children about Fire Ants. This site contains resources, news, calendar of events, self-learning tools and much more. Learn more
| Awards & Contest Entomological Society of America’s President’s Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Primary & Secondary Education: http://www.entsoc.org/awards/ receive $100 for each insect science winning project: http://www.entfdn.org/ |
Camps, Clubs, Events Amateur Entomologists' Society- Bug Club: http://www.amentsoc.org news/camps.asp bugbowl/ |
Careers What is entomology and what do entomologists do? http://insects.tamu.edu/youth/ whatisento.pdf and career in entomology: http://www.entsoc.org/resources/
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Insect Facts Extension Entomology Fact Sheets & Resources. Resources for homeowners, educators and more can be found at http://www.entfdn.org/documents/ EntomologyFactSheetsOnLinebyWhitney.pdf Entomology fact sheets from University of Kentucky Entomology including information on the Madagascar hissing cockroach, starting an observation hive of honey bees, and rearing crickets. http://www.ca.uky. |
Insect Photographs & Film Bugwood Network image gallery: entomology.html Image Gallery: imagegallery/ monster-bug-wars-death-at-midnight- Stein's Virtual Insectary: http://www.virtualinsectary.com |
Insect Identification Insect identification http://www.insectidentification.org Essentials to learning about insects- guide to insect orders, how to identify an insect, and more. See "Browse Topics:"
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Lesson Plans Insect lesson plans to help teach about fleas, mosquitoes, ticks, spiders, and more. Check out http://elementaryinsects.tamu.edu Insect Lesson Plans: http://www.pedagonet.com/other/ Lesson plans for grades K-3 on using live insects in the classroom: http://insected.arizona.edu
casefile/bugconnection/teaching/ Curriculum for elementary-school children from an entomology outreach program in Oakland, California:
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Museums & Insect Zoos Butterly World Museum, Florida: Florida Museum of Natural History, Florida Audobon Insectarium, Louisianna: http://www.auduboninstitute.org/ North Carolina Museum of Life & Science in Durham, North Carolina: http://www.ncmls.org/
Pennsylvania State's Frost Entomological Museum: http://www.ento.psu.edu/ Norfolk Botanical Garden Butterfly Exhibit, Virginia: http://www.norfolkbotanicalgarden.org/ gardens-horticulture/all-gardens/bristow- O. Orkin Insect Zoo, Washington, DC: http://www.mnh.si.edu/education/ |
On-Line Learning
Students explore the microscopic world of insects: http://bugscope.beckman. illinois.edu/ Or check out http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/ for more on science projects and teacher materials. a teacher's guide: http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/ |
Outreach
Bugman Education http://www.bugs.org |
Science Projects Entomological science projects for grades K-12 http://www.entfdn.org/scienceprojects.php Entomology Resources and much more |
Societies and Organizations Butterfly Society of Virginia http://butterflysocietyofva.org DC Honeybees – Jeff Miller & Katy Nally http://dchoneybees.com Encyclopedia of Life http://eol.org Green Matter http://greenmatter.org Institute of Artic Biology http://www.iab.uaf.edu Partners in Evolution www.butterflies.si.edu
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Supplies BioQuip Products http://www.bioquip.com/ Carolina Supply http://www.carolina.com/ |
Universities Nieh Lab, University of California, San Diego http://biology.ucsd.edu/labs/ University of Florida, Entomology & University of Georgia, Department of Entomology http:// www.ent.uga.edu University of Maryland, Department of Entomologyhttp://entomology.umd.edu |
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Arts and Crafts Students develop an insect travel brochure or advertising campaign while learning about insects. See http://iitc.tamu.edu/1998and2000 |
Beekeeping Guide to beekeeping for children and adults: Articles and more: http://scientificbeekeeping.com/the-rules-for-successful-beekeeping/ Beginning beekeeping: |
Biodiversity
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Eating Insects Edible Insects with recipes: http://www.uky.edu/Ag/CritterFiles/ casefile/bugconnection/edible/edible.htm Girl Meets Bug http://girlmeetsbug.com David Gracer www.smallstockfoods.com |
Forensic Entomology What is Forensic Entomology? http://www.forensic-entomology.com/ Forensic Science for Grades 6-8. Three-week series of lesson activities designed for use in informal and formal educational settings. See http://edit.ifas.ufl.edu/4h310 |
Gardening Biological Control - A Guide to Natural Enemies in North America- Geared toward elementary teachers and students, children learn about biological control through games, a teaching booklet, and other resources: http://www.biocontrol.entomology. Planting guide for attracting pollinators to your garden: http://www.pollinator.org/guides.htm |
Insect Collecting Insect collecting techniques and more: http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/ Bug Guide: Insect ID and more: http://bugguide.net/node/view/15740 |
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Insect Robotics Learn more about how scientists are using insects in robotics: http://www.science.org.au/nova/ Purdue University, School of Mechanical Engineering, Bio-Robotics Lab https://engineering.purdue.edu/~xdeng/ University of Maryland, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bergbreiter |
Pet Bugs Taking care of a Pet Bug: http://www.uky.edu/Ag/CritterFiles/ |
Pollinators Pollination Attraction- Citizen Action Project https://sites.google.com/a/alaska.edu/ Curriculum and much more: http://www.pollinator.org/education.htm#cr |
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