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Picture Library of Bug-fellows from A Pilgrimage of Pests:


I have provided a series of line drawings that represent ten of the book's bug-fellow characters.  These can be downloaded  and reproduced for a variety of class activities.  If the students have been reading the book, they will already have an interest in seeing the character's pictures and will be excited to identify each of the insects.  Also included in the download is a teacher page identifying each insect by name and references to some of the typical insect parts. 

The following are some activities you could try with the drawings:
Where applicable the appropriate Florida State Standard is provided.

1.  Cut out each insect picture.  Give one to each student.  Students color their insect and write the insect's name on the back side of picture.  Working in small groups, they lay their pictures face up and see if all the students in the group can identify each insect by name.

2.  Students can color code the body segments on the insects (Be sure to use the  insect drawings with segmentation that is easily distinguished, such as the two on the Teacher Key provided). 

*SC.2.L.14.1 Organization and Development of Living Organisms
  • SC.2.L.14.Pa.1 Recognize one or more external body parts.
*SC.3.L.15.1 Diversity and Evolution of Living Organisms
  • SC.3.L.15.Su.1 Sort common animals by observable characteristics.

3.  Have the students draw a map of Meadowfield on a sheet of poster paper and then place, tape or paste the insect pictures in the areas of Meadowfield where the insect lives.
*SC.2.L.17.2  Recognize and explain that living things are found all over Earth, but each is only able to live in habitats that meet its basic needs


4.  Cut out the pictures and punch a hole at top of drawing.  Students color and run a piece of yarn through the hole and tie ends of yarn together to make a necklace that they can take home to wear.

5.  As a classification activity, group students and give each group a cut-out set of the ten pictures.  Ask them to separate the one(s) that is not an insect from the rest of the set (Daddy Long Legs).  Then ask them to separate the one(s) with no wings(silverfish).  Ask them to look closely at the wings and separate the one(s) with wings that look like they might be hard and are side by side or parallel(scarab, weevil, stag beetle) and explain that these are beetles.  Of the ones remaining ask them to separate the one that looks like it might have a hard shell, but its wings look crisscrossed(stinkbug).  Explain that this one is technically a bug.  Finally have them put the remaining insects in two groups; beneficial and pest.  They should have two beneficial(mantis and honey bee) and two pests (grasshopper and cockroach).  Check to see which student groups were able to classify the pictures correctly.

*SC.2.L.14.1 Organization and Development of Living Organisms
  • SC.2.L.14.Pa.1 Recognize one or more external body parts.
*SC.3.L.15.1 Diversity and Evolution of Living Organisms
  • SC.3.L.15.Pa.1 Match animals that are the same
*SC.35.CS-CS.2.3 Explain the process of arranging or sorting information into useful order as well as the purpose for doing so

Click on the link below to download the insect drawings.
Insect Picture Library
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