Seen on the picture are the materials we are using to learn about the insect’s body parts. The insects that we examined here are ants, butterfly, ladybird, grasshopper and dragonfly. As you can see, this is NOT really hands-on because of two factors:
- The absence of these insects (except for ants and ladybird) during the time we have this study. No grasshoppers (tropical country) and no butterfly at all!
- We cannot dissect ladybird and ants. They’re just too tiny!
With these, we just used our nomenclature cards and animal figures. Speaking of animal figures, I highly recommend Safari Toobs Insects. You can easily demonstrate the body parts because of the details in the figures.
Resources in the picture:- FREE Insects and Spider Silhouette Cards.
- Insect cards from my Arthropods Pack
- FREE Butterfly Nomenclature Cards
- Grasshopper Nomenclature Cards
- Ants Nomenclature Cards
- Caterpillar Nomenclature Cards
- Dragonfly Nomenclature Cards
- Insect Nomenclature Cards
- Usborne Bugs Book
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Montessori Butterfly Puzzle
- Montessori Wasp Puzzle
- Safari Toob Insects
We worked on the entire nomenclature cards in the span of one week. Because of the repetition of the activity, Mavi was able to identify the similarities of these insects, like:
- They have segmented bodies: head, thorax and abdomen
- 6 legs
- Most have antennae
Each nomenclature card comes with a definition booklet of the body parts. Mavi loves reading our booklets (this is a perfect way to let your child improve their reading skills!)
Montessori Puzzles
I purchased these puzzles before I had Vito. We used it to identify the different parts of an insect and worked on it
Mavi loves to trace the puzzles and made his own version of butterfly.
The puzzle was also enjoyed by Vito. He loves butterfly (even if he hasn’t seen one yet) and chose to work on the puzzle.
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