Format
This program is a virtual storybook that allows participants to choose their journey throughout the story. Students will meet live invertebrates on camera throughout the adventure and time is allowed at the end for questions and answers about the animals.
Objectives
Students will know what an insect is and that ladybugs and some other insects go through a life cycle called metamorphosis.
Students will know that insects, like other animals, need a habitat and how animals interact with their habitats throughout different seasons.
Students will be able to recognize life cycles and how animals interact with each other and their environment.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
LS1B K-2 -- Growth and development of organisms
LS2A K-2 -- Interdependent relationships in ecosystems
State Standards
Colorado Science Content Standards
SC.P.2.1 Recognize that living things have unique characteristics and basic needs that can be observed and studied.
SC.P.2.2 Recognize that living things develop in predictable patterns.
SC.P.3.2 The acquisition of concepts and facts related to the natural and physical world and the understanding of naturally occurring relationships.
SC.K.2.1: To live and grow, animals obtain food they need from plants or other animals, and plants need water and light
SC.K.3.2 Plants and animals meet their needs in their habitats and impact one another; people can prepare for severe weather
SC.1.2.1: 1. All organisms have external parts that they use to perform daily functions.
SC.1.2.2: Young organisms are very much, but not exactly, like their parents, and also resemble other organisms of the same kind.
SC.2.2.2: A range of different organisms lives in different places.
SC.2.2.1 Plants depend on water and light to grow and on animals for pollination or to move their seeds around.
SC.3.2.1: Organisms have unique and diverse life cycles.