Insects

 Students have been reading non-fiction articles in Achieve3000 "Bring in the Battle Bugs?"

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.

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"A Place that Fit for a Monarch" The butterflies return to the U.S. and Canada in late March. The map indicates their migration to Alaska. I've seen butterflies in Akiak, Alaska http://www.yupiit.org/akiak

Pairing the article with poems from the book Joyful Noise
Water Striders 
and Non-Fiction Texts like Zoobooks and the following examples:

Butterfly Life Cycle

Butterfly Wings

It takes a wise friend to bring the music back

Amazing changes from a caterpillar to a butterfly or moth.

What do Butterflies Eat?

Butterfly Outlines

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/pdfs/swallowed_fly.pdf

2:16 Bees and Biology

Count the Dots . . . taken at a Oregon Campsite

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Honey Bees Natural History 1 & 2 (4 min. each)

How Insects See the World    You Tube How 
LadyBug Project