EW's Best of the Bug Books!
What would our world be like without bugs? Life would be much different, that's for sure! Without insects, fruits and vegetables wouldn't grow. And many species that depend on insects as a food source wouldn't exist.
Insects may be tiny in size, but in population they outnumber humans. If you placed all the humans in the world on one scale and all the insects on another, the insects would outweigh the humans!
Gather all the books written about insects and you could fill many school library shelves! Few topics are of such interest to students as insects are. Each year, dozens of new books are published on the subject. This week, Halloween week, is an ideal time to take a look at some of the most interesting new "bug books"!
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY FIRST FIELD GUIDE: INSECTS
Now Scholastic adds Insects to its series of field guides for children ages 8-18. Insects joins field guides (created in partnership with the www.audubon.org National Audubon Society) devoted to Rocks and Minerals, Birds, and Wildflowers. Each guide is designed to fit in the pocket of a field vest, to be used as a handy reference for identifying nature in its natural surroundings.
The newest of the guides --the one focused on six-legged creatures and spiders -- offers easy-to-read text, more than 450 color photos and illustrations, a waterproof card with postage-stamp-sized images of 50 of the most common insects, and much more!
The real beauty of Insects lies in its simplicity! The guide includes 50 photo spreads. Each spread includes a large photo of a perfect insect specimen, some fast facts about the featured creature, a handful of comments about "what to look for," and information about the insect's size, habitat, and range. Doesn't get much more simple or clear than that!
In addition, each spread includes two or three more photos of creatures with which the insect might be confused or with which it might share common features.
For beginning buggers, this thorough field guide offers much more. It includes about 50 pages of additional information about insects, including:
- The world of insects -- tells you about how naturalists learn about insects, how long insects have existed, how insects and spiders differ, and how insects are named.
- How to look at insects -- provides information needed to begin identifying insects in the field, fascinating facts about the 12 groups of insects you are most likely to see, explanations of the life cycles of insects, and descriptions of the plights of several rare and endangered species.
- A handy reference section -- includes a helpful glossary of technical terms used by entomologists and naturalists; lists of useful books, organizations, videotapes, software, and Web sites; and an index of species covered in the field guide.
The National Audubon Society First Field Guide: Insects is the perfect first field guide for children -- and for adults!
SPIDERS SPIN WEBS
Looking for a fun -- not frightening -- way to introduce primary-grade students to the world of spiders? Spiders Spin Webs (Charlesbridge Publishing, 1998) offers a basic "field guide" to a wide variety of spiders. This spider guide's rhyming text (by Yvonne Winer) and realistic illustrations (by Karen Lloyd-Jones) is a decidedly un-creepy intro to the eight-legged creatures.
On the right-hand side of each spread in Spiders Spin Webs Lloyd-Jones provides a stunning full-page illustration of a spider in its natural habitat. The scenes -- depicting spider life in all seasons of the year and in all habitats, from underwater to the bough of a cactus plant -- furnish insight about many spider habitats and the many forms that spider webs take.
On the left-hand side of each spread, an up-close look (uncluttered by its natural surroundings) at the spider accompanies Winer's rhyme. The first few rhymes in Spiders Spin Webs answer the question How do spiders spin webs? Subsequent rhymes tackle the when, where, and why of web-dome. The rhymes are simple. They offer basic information and vocabulary, and they set the mood for Lloyd-Jones's realistic watercolors. If it's more specific or "sciency" information about spiders that students yearn for, Winer offers in the back of the book a Spider Identification Guide with facts about each spider.
JANICE VAN CLEAVE'S INSECTS AND SPIDERS
Janice Van Cleave has a book of activities and experiments for almost every science topic of interest to students. So, naturally, she has created Janice Van Cleave's Insects and Spiders (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998). Subtitled "Mind-Boggling Experiments You Can Turn Into Science Fair Projects," Insects and Spiders provides activities for students of all ages.
Van Cleave starts with the basics, such as making your own insect-catchers. Students can follow her simple directions for constructing an insect net using a plastic bag and a wire coat hanger, or for building a "bug catcher" using a 2-liter plastic soda bottle...
* Cut off the top 4 inches of the soda bottle.
*Place half of an over-ripe banana in the bottom part of the bottle.
* Insert the top part of the bottle backward into the bottom part.
* Lay the bug catcher on its side on the soil for 6 to 8 hours.
* Use a field guide to identify the insects that enter the bug catcher.
Throughout Insects and Spiders, Van Cleave is attentive to issues of conservation (be sure to release the bugs caught in your bug catcher after you've used a magnifying glass to identify them and drawn a picture of them for your observation log) and safety.
Among the other activity ideas: Use a toilet paper tube and a handful of straws to create a model of a grasshopper's eye. And create a simple insect-attracting food solution from sugar and water and place samples of the solution in plastic dishes on papers of different colors. Record your observations. Are insects attracted to some colors more than to others?
Van Cleave's latest book also provides a glossary of insect terms and lists of field guides, insect-related literature, and supply houses (from which you can order bugs!).
Use Janice Van Cleave's Insects and Spiders to liven up any study of insects and spiders. (And check out her other titles. She's bound to have a book related to every area of your science curriculum!) All of Van Cleave's activities and experiments use inexpensive household materials and involve a minimum of preparation and cleanup.
THE BEST BOOK OF BUGS
Looking for a great introductory resource for your K-4 students? The Best Book of Bugs (Kingfisher, 1998) covers all the bug basics. Students will travel to a host of habitats as they discover the bugs around them, above them, and beneath their feet! Among the topics explored are Spinning Spiders, Buzzing Bees, Busy Beetles, and Darting Dragonflies. Eye-catching illustrations provide students with a bugs-eye view of insect life near the pond, in an ant colony, and inside a beehive.
Simple text and captions provide the bug basics. In addition, a handful of sections explore in-depth different aspects of the world of insects. For example, follow the stages of a "honeybee's year," learn about the different jobs of ants in a colony, or learn how a dragon fly nymph captures a targeted tadpole or how a full-fledged dragonfly uses it two sets of wings to twist, turn, and hover.
All the creepiness of the bug world is gone, all the fascinating information remains intact, in The Best Book of Bugs.
HAVE YOU SEEN BUGS?
Have You Seen Bugs? (Scholastic Press, 1998) is the newest book from author Joanne F. Oppenheim (Have You Seen Birds? and Have You Seen Trees?).
"Itty-bitty bugs small as specks of sand, wide-winged bugs bigger than your hand. Bugs with stripes or speckles or spots, shiny like metal or covered with dots."
Rhyme after rhyme provides the perfect introduction for primary-aged students to the wide world of "bugs that flutter and scurry and dive, bugs that buzz around a hive." Through Oppenheim's rhymes we learn lots of facts about the variety of bugs, their habits and habitats, and the work they do. The rhymes, and Ron Broda's accompanying three-dimensional paper sculptures, reflect a passion for the world of insects. The vivid words and illustrations bring bugs alive for students young and old!
The last page of Have You Seen Bugs? provides an index of insects in each of Broda's illustrations and one more rhyme from Oppenheim that offers additional information "About Bugs."
BEETLE BEDLAM!
The last of our bug books is a huge departure from the rest. Author/illustrator Vlasta van Kampen sets Beetle Bedlam (Charlesbridge Publishing, 1997) in an insect courtroom. At stake here is the life and reputation of bark beetle, charged with the murder of the forest's trees. "Tree killer! Forest wrecker!" shouts the angry crowd, about ready to lynch bark beetle.
The courtroom is presided over by crotchety Goliath beetle, a bit tipsy from his morning cocktail of fermented sap! One by one, Goliath beetle calls into the courtroom potential witnesses to the heinous act. As each beetle testifies, we learn a bit about that bug's habits. For example, we learn that fiddle beetle couldn't possibly be a witness because he lives beneath the bark of rotten trees where he can't see a thing. And we learn that the harlequin beetle is a prissy little thing:
"...[T]hat awful little bug, who's he? I just concentrate on being beautiful. See those tiny creatures on my back? I hire them to catch body mites and keep me clean.""Enough!" snarled Goliath. "Dismiss the witness -- and don't get her dirty."
The hilarity mounts to a climax as dung beetle rolls a dung ball into the courtroom. A little bathroom humor is one way to get to reader, I guess!
Vlasta van Kampen's illustrations are a clutter of insect legs and antennae, not always a pretty sight, but they help to convey the confusion of the courtroom. Young students might play a Where's Waldo-like game, as they hunt for each insect character in the illustrations. I think students in grades 2 and up would love take on van Klampen's distinct (or distinked, in the case of the dung beetle) characters as they act out Beetle Bedlam. Let your strongest actor portray the grouchy Goliath beetle!
All of the highlighted books are available at bookstores nationwide. If you are unable to locate a copy of any title, ask your bookseller to order the book for you or contact the publishers directly at: · Charlesbridge Publishing, 85 Main Street, Watertown, MA 02174 · Kingfisher Books, 95 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 · Scholastic Press, 555 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 · John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158
Article by Gary Hopkins
Education World® Editor-in-Chief
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Where Did Foods Originate?
(Foods of the New World and Old World)
Subjects
Arts & Humanities
--Language Arts
Educational Technology
Science
--Agriculture
Social Studies
--Economics
--Geography
--History
----U.S. History
----World History
--Regions/Cultures
Grade
K-2
3-5
6-8
9-12
Advanced
Brief Description
Students explore how New World explorers helped change the Old World's diet (and vice versa).
Objectives
Students will
learn about changes that occurred in the New World and Old World as a result of early exploration.
use library and Internet sources to research food origins. (Older students only.)
create a bulletin-board map illustrating the many foods that were shared as a result of exploration.
Keywords
Columbus, explorers, origin, food, timeline, plants, map, New World, Old World, colonies, colonial, crops, media literacy, products, consumer
Materials Needed:
library and/or Internet access (older students only)
outline map of the world (You might print the map on a transparency; then use an overhead projector to project and trace a large outline map of the world onto white paper on a bulletin board.)
magazines (optional)
Lesson Plan
The early explorers to the Americas were exposed to many things they had never seen before. Besides strange people and animals, they were exposed to many foods that were unknown in the Old World. In this lesson, you might post an outline map of the continents on a bulletin board. Have students use library and/or Internet resources (provided below) to research some of the edible items the first explorers saw for the first time in the New World. On the bulletin board, draw an arrow from the New World (the Americas) to the Old World (Europe, Asia, Africa) and post around it drawings or images (from magazines or clip art) of products discovered in the New World and taken back to the Old World.
Soon, the explorers would introduce plants/foods from the Old World to the Americas. You might draw a second arrow on the board -- from the Old World to the New World -- and post appropriate drawings or images around it.
Adapt the Lesson for Younger Students
Younger students will not have the ability to research foods that originated in the New and Old World. You might adapt the lesson by sharing some of the food items in the Food Lists section below. Have students collect or draw pictures of those items for the bulletin board display.
Resources
In addition to library resources, students might use the following Internet sites as they research the geographic origins of some foods:
Curry, Spice, and All Things Nice: Food Origins
The Food Timeline
Native Foods of the Americas
A Harvest Gathered: Food in the New World
We Are What We Eat Timeline (Note: This resource is an archived resource; the original page is no longer live and updated.)
Food Lists Our research uncovered the Old and New World foods below. Students might find many of those and add them to the bulletin board display. Notice that some items appear on both lists -- beans, for example. There are many varieties of beans, some with New World origins and others with their origins in the Old World. In our research, we found sources that indicate onions originated in the New and sources that indicate onions originated in the Old World. Students might create a special question mark symbol to post next to any item for which contradictory sources can be found
Note: The Food Timeline is a resource that documents many Old World products. This resource sets up a number of contradictions. For example:
Many sources note that tomatoes originated in the New World; The Food Timeline indicates that tomatoes were introduced to the New World in 1781.
The Food Timeline indicates that strawberries and raspberries were available in the 1st century in Europe; other sources identify them as New World commodities.
Foods That Originated in the New World: artichokes, avocados, beans (kidney and lima), black walnuts, blueberries, cacao (cocoa/chocolate), cashews, cassava, chestnuts, corn (maize), crab apples, cranberries, gourds, hickory nuts, onions, papayas, peanuts, pecans, peppers (bell peppers, chili peppers), pineapples, plums, potatoes, pumpkins, raspberries, squash, strawberries, sunflowers, sweet potatoes, tobacco, tomatoes, turkey, vanilla, wild cherries, wild rice.
Foods That Originated in the Old World: apples, bananas, beans (some varieties), beets, broccoli, carrots, cattle (beef), cauliflower, celery, cheese, cherries, chickens, chickpeas, cinnamon, coffee, cows, cucumbers, eggplant, garlic, ginger, grapes, honey (honey bees), lemons, lettuce, limes, mangos, oats, okra, olives, onions, oranges, pasta, peaches, pears, peas, pigs, radishes, rice, sheep, spinach, tea, watermelon, wheat, yams.
Extension Activities
Home-school connection. Have students and their parents search their food cupboards at home; ask each student to bring in two food items whose origin can be traced to a specific place (foreign if possible, domestic if not). Labels from those products will be sufficient, especially if the products are in breakable containers. Place those labels/items around a world map; use yarn to connect each label to the location of its origin on the map.
Media literacy. Because students will research many sources, have them list the sources for the information they find about each food item. Have them place an asterisk or checkmark next to the food item each time they find that item in a different source. If students find a food in multiple sources, they might consider it "verified"; those foods they find in only one source might require additional research to verify.
Assessment
Invite students to agree or disagree with the following statement:The early explorers were surprised by many of the foods they saw in the New World.
Have students write a paragraph in support of their opinion.
Lesson Plan Source
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Submitted By
Gary Hopkins
National Standards
LANGUAGE ARTS: EnglishGRADES K - 12NL-ENG.K-12.2 Reading for UnderstandingNL-ENG.K-12.8 Developing Research SkillsNL-ENG.K-12.9 Multicultural UnderstandingNL-ENG.K-12.12 Applying Language Skills
SOCIAL SCIENCES: EconomicsGRADES K - 4NSS-EC.K-4.1 Productive ResourcesNSS-EC.K-4.6 Gain from TradeGRADES 5 - 8NSS-EC.5-8.1 Productive ResourcesNSS-EC.5-8.6 Gain from TradeGRADES 9 - 12NSS-EC.9-12.1 Productive ResourcesNSS-EC.9-12.6 Gain from Trade
SOCIAL SCIENCES: GeographyGRADES K - 12NSS-G.K-12.1 The World in Spatial TermsNSS-G.K-12.2 Places and Regions
SOCIAL SCIENCES: U.S. HistoryGRADES K - 4NSS-USH.K-4.1 Living and Working together in Families and Communities, Now and Long AgoNSS-USH.K-4.3 The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and the People from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and Political HeritageNSS-USH.K-4.4 The History of Peoples of Many Cultures Around the WorldGRADES 5 - 12NSS-USH.5-12.1 Era 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620)NSS-USH.5-12.2 Era 2: Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763)NSS-WH.5-12.6 Global Expansion and Encounter, 1450-1770
TECHNOLOGYGRADES K - 12NT.K-12.1 Basic Operations and ConceptsNT.K-12.5 Technology Research Tools
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does not take pride in his/her work. We are working to help him/her feel good about what he/she accomplishes.
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