Insects Organisms and Environment Key Learning: Insects can be helpful and harmful to the environment. All living things have needs and must depend on and interact with resources in the environment in order to survive.

Key Learning : Basic Needs Lesson Essential Questions  What are the basic needs of insects?  How do insects depend on their environment?

Basic needs of insects  1.  2.  3.  4.

How do insects depend on their environment? Environment: trees grassdirtflowersdesertwaterArctic rain forest

Key Learning: Characteristics Lesson Essential Questions  What does an insect look like?  What are the characteristics and functions of an insect’s body parts?

Insect bodies

Characteristics and functions of an insect’s body parts

Key Learning: Similarities and Differences Lesson Essential Question  How can we determine the difference between an insect and an arachnid?

Sort the spider and insects

Differences between an insect and an arachnid Insect Arachnid

Key Learning: Life Cycles Lesson Essential Questions  What is the life cycle of an insect?  How do living things change over time?  What would happen if organisms didn’t change?  What are the similarities and differences between the life cycles of organisms?

Life Cycle of an Insect

Cut the pictures apart. Glue each insect’s life cycle in the correct order on your paper.

Life cycles of other organisms Movie from IMC

Similarities and differences between the life cycles of organisms Similarities Differences Everything starts as an egg Everything has adults Everything gets biggerEverything starts as an egg Everything has adults Everything gets bigger Some have larva, some don’t Some animals are born, some are hatched

How do insects impact our environment? Positive Impact (helpful) Negative Impact (harmful) Bees make honey and wax. Bees help flowers and trees bloom and have fruit. Ladybugs eat aphids. Insects eat clothes. Insects eat wood. Flies eat our food and leave germs on the food. Mosquitoes carry disease can make you sick Mosquitos can bite you and make you itch

Key Learning: Pests Lesson Essential Question  How do insects impact our environment?

Key Learning: Environment Lesson Essential Question  What is the relationship between humans and their environment?  How do organisms react to environmental change?

Humans and their environment

Organisms react to environmental change Construction Pollution Global Warming

Your Final Project You just discovered a new insect! Present your insect to the class. Be ready to:  Show a picture of your insect;  Explain its body parts and their functions;  Tell where it lives;  Tell what it needs to survive;  Explain its life cycle;  Tell if it helps or harms the environment