The Cricket Chronicles presents an extensive integrated unit of study focused on that familiar insect--the cricket. Teachers are given a complete guide and reproducible worksheets for elementary and middle school students. With more than 30 different activities on crickets, students learn science content and skills including: -Taxonomy -Anatomy -Ecology -Marking and recapturing techniques for estimating population size -Reading biological distribution maps -Caring for living organisms in the classroom Many activities involve hands-on science investigations; others incorporate reading,...

Here is an extensive integrated unit of study focused on that common and familiar insect-the cricket. In this edition, teachers are given a complete guide and reproducible worksheets for elementary and middle school students. With over 30 different activities on crickets, students learn science content and skills including: -Taxonomy -Anatomy -Ecology -Mark and recapture techniques for estimating population size -Reading biological distribution maps, and -Caring for living organisms in the classroom Many activities involve hands-on science investigations while other activities involve...