Dragons, Houses and Other Flies

 

Entomology 3: NATIONAL SCIENCE EDUCATION STANDARDS: GRADES 9-12

 

CONTENT STANDARDS

Chapter One

 

A meal from a worm

A, Design & conduct scientific investigations;  Formulate & revise scientific explanations & models using logic and evidence; communicate & defend a scientific argument

Ants & Antics

A, Design & conduct scientific investigations;  Formulate & revise scientific explanations & models using logic and evidence; communicate & defend a scientific argument

C, Interdependence of organisms, behavior of organisms

BEEhavior

A, Formulate & revise scientific explanations & models using logic and evidence; communicate & defend a scientific argument, Understandings about scientific inquiry

C, behavior of organisms

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Two

 

Bugs R Us

 

The Key to Insects

A, recognize & analyze alternative explanations & models

C, matter, energy, and organization in living systems

Be the Queen Bee

 

Planting for Butterflies

A, Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry

C, Interdependence of organisms

F, natural resources; environmental quality

 

 

 

 

Chapter Three

 

Chew, Slurp, and Burp

A, recognize & analyze alternative explanations & models

C, matter, energy, and organization in living systems

Wiggle, Wiggle

A, Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry

C, matter, energy, and organization in living systems

World Wide Web

 

Nothing in Vein

A, recognize & analyze alternative explanations & models

 

 

 

 

Chapter Four

 

Bugs in the News

G, science as a human endeavor

Three Bugs in a Tub

C, Behavior of organisms; matter, energy, and organization in living systems

The Monarch: King or Queen?

C, Behavior of organisms; matter, energy, and organization in living systems