Elementary NSTA Press and NSTA Recommends Books on Creepy, Crawly Science

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Insectigations: 40 Activities

Grades K–8

You’ll know at first flip-through that author Cindy Blobaum is buggy about bugs—and love how her enthusiasm spreads to your students. Insectigations does activity-book basics well with helpful background, instructions, illustrations, and appendices. You’ll learn to train a bee, use math to measure bug strength, garden to attract butterflies, make an amplifier for insect sounds, play an insect board game… and set your class abuzz with both solid information plus playground trivia.

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The Pillbug Project: A Guide to Investigation

Grades K–8

Help children see for themselves what science is all about with the perfect classroom critter, the docile pillbug. Organized around 10 days of activities, this innovative book helps students explore organisms’ life cycles and environments, understand scientific inquiry, and have fun. You’ll like the practical lesson plans, assessments, and reproducibles; kids will love the whimsical illustrations and the adventures of Patricia Pillbug. An entertaining way to teach through stories and pictures.

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Creepy Spiders

Grades K–4

From beginning to end, Creepy Spiders offers an engaging and pictorially rich treatment of these small predators. Much of the book is both fascinating and scary, including an account of a bite from a black widow spider. But the book’s balanced approach also emphasizes positive aspects of these spiders, such as the black widow spider's spinning of a silk thread that was used in sensitive equipment. This book is sure to entice young readers to learn more about arachnids and other animals.

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Creepy Crawlies

Grades K–4

Creepy Crawlies will help students explore their local world of small insects and animals. In this delightful picture book, the cat Lika encounters many fascinating animals throughout her typical day.

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Pocket Pals: Creepy Crawlies

Grades K–4

Creepy Crawlies is one of four kits in John and Fran Pickering’s Pocket Pals series. Written for children ages three and older, each kit focuses on a different theme that a young child will find fascinating. Lots of small trinkets and excellent guidance will help children learn and have fun in the process.

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http://www2.nsta.org/recommends/product.asp?id=12611

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