Imagine camp
Science Camp
Arnold – información en breve….
Heather
This week we’re doing Invertebrates. Monday and Tuesday, we talked about Insects.
Vocabulary includes : legs, thorax, abdomen, wings, stinger, shell, fangs, mandibles, tentacles, stripes and spots.
We read an article about insects that are helpful (bees, dragonflies and ladybugs).
Vocabulary: pest, harm, harmful, sting, bite, help, helpful
Tuesday, we talked about the differences between social and solitary wasps. The biggest difference (and most interesting) is that every female solitary wasp lays eggs. The parasitic wasps prey on different insects (cockroaches, aphids, caterpillars), paralyze them, use their stingers to inject an egg inside the insect, and bury it alive. The larva then eats the inject (still alive) from the inside out. The adult wasp chews its way out of the dead insect and starts all over again.
We watched this video:
And then this:
We also did a KWL “chart” where they said what they knew about Insects, what the wanted to know, and finally, what they learned, if you want to take a picture of that.
Tomorrow, we’re going to start talking about invertebrates in the sea. I’m going to make a slideshow of different cool things (octopus, squid, etc). We’ll read an article about the octopus, and do a song/chant.
Spotted Octopus Chant with Hand Jive
Starfish,
seahorse
Jellyfish, jellyfish
Starfish, seahorse
octopus too
Red, starfish
Pink, seahorse
Spotted Octopus, Orange and blue