Critters discovered by the 5th grade Small Science students in their terrace garden.
A lovely opportunity to give them "crumbs" of information from Geetha Iyer's book "Weavers" which has fascinating information about insects that work with silk.
Later, a student found another book with pictures of tunnelling larvae
He showed me how tree leaves develop galls to protect themselves against caterpillars.
The other day, kids found dead wasps and were utterly fascinated. They wanted to know the names of the wasps- which we tried to look up.
They also found a wonderful exoskeleton of a praying mantis. Never seen something like that before.
A lovely opportunity to give them "crumbs" of information from Geetha Iyer's book "Weavers" which has fascinating information about insects that work with silk.
Later, a student found another book with pictures of tunnelling larvae
The other day, kids found dead wasps and were utterly fascinated. They wanted to know the names of the wasps- which we tried to look up.
They also found a wonderful exoskeleton of a praying mantis. Never seen something like that before.
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