Creepy Crawlies

One of the classes I'm teaching this semester is Insects.  I'm actually teaching it twice - once for younger children, and once for older children.  We went to Minnetrista recently for a Creepy Crawlies field trip.  Here they are searching for insects in the grasses and plants.

 Then we went inside and talked about the different types of creepy crawlies- insects, arachnids and worm-like creatures.  They played a matching game.

 Then we talked about pollen and how insects have sticky feet and get the pollen on their feet when they walk on plants to eat.

 Lastly, they played a game.  The first person in line is the egg, the next person is the larva (jumping in a sack), the next person is the chrysalis (wearing a pillowcase) and the last person has the wings for the butterfly.