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What Makes An Insect
Give the student a test they can apply: count the legs, look for the wings.
- 02
Insects And Flowers
Show that an insect visiting a flower is doing the plant a service without meaning to.
- 03
Insects That Help Us
Follow two insects from what they do in nature to what reaches our homes: honey and silk.
- 04
Lac And Lady Bird Beetle
Finish the useful insects with one that makes a material and one that protects crops.
- 05
Flies And Mosquitoes
Distinguish two ways an insect spreads disease: germs carried on the outside, and germs carried in blood.
- 06
Fleas And Stinging Insects
Finish the harmful insects with the wingless biters and the ones that sting.
- 07
Spiders And Staying Safe
Apply the six-leg test to the creature most often mistaken for an insect, then close with how we keep harmful insects away.
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Chapter Review: Insects
Hold the useful insects apart from the harmful ones and answer the chapter's written questions.