Bug Lab: Strange Plants and Insects

Pip the firefly gives a tour of a backyard full of strange living things. Students flip fact cards, find every insect in a garden picture (and skip the spider and the snail), sort plants from insects, read how a Venus flytrap catches its food, answer questions and find the reason in the text, describe a walking stick, match words that mean the same thing, join ideas with because and but, choose a kind thing to say, and finish by catching only the insects in a picture rain. Every passage, question and answer has a read-aloud button. Built for speech-language groups and grades 3-5.

• 5 fact cards about strange plants and insects
• A find-the-insects garden picture and a plant-or-insect picture sort
• A short informational passage about the Venus flytrap with read-aloud, two questions and a find-the-reason highlight
• A describing-words fill-in, a synonym match and two because/but sentences
• A kindness question, an insect-catching rain game and a scored ending

• Ask and answer questions about a short informational passage
• Describe a living thing using size, shape, color and what it does
• Use because, but and so to join two ideas
• Tell an insect from a look-alike using one rule: insects have six legs