Tag: Cockroach

This week is an insect hunt. Take time to prepare for your nature study by reading the lesson for cockroaches in the Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock. You may not find a cockroach but don’t be discouraged!

Look for any insects in your yard or neighborhood. Talk about what makes an insect an insect. (Find information on this in the Handbook of Nature Study in the introduction to insects section. In my copy of the HNS it’s found on pages 294-300.)

 

View the original challenge here: Outdoor Hour Challenge – Cockroach.

There are suggestions in this challenge for observing any insect you find during your Outdoor Hour Challenge time. Remember there are many insects listed under the Insect Tab on the website for many common insects you may encounter. Feel free to study a different insect this week if your children are interested in learning about their insect discovery. In addition, there is an Insect Photo Hunt activity printable available to everyone if you decide you want to try that challenge.

There are easy to use notebook pages in the ebook for members to use after their cockroach nature study.

Sample to view: Outdoor Hour Challenge Autumn Nature Study 2015 Sample Pages

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Topics in this ebook include:

• Swallows and swifts
• Catfish
• Jewelweed
• Prickly lettuce
• Cockroach
• Field horsetail
• Catbird
• Calcite, limestone, marble
• Chicken
• Turkey
• Hedgehog fungi
• Sapsucker
• Brooks

 

 

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Outdoor Hour Challenge
Insect Study – Cockroach

Inside Preparation Work:

• Read pages 350-351 (Lesson #83) in the Handbook of Nature Study.
• This is a helpful page that you can read with your children and download any of the pdf identification cards you desire to include in your nature journal: Cockroaches.
• Advanced study: Here is a National Geographic video about the cockroach.  Just be warned it may be hard for some people to watch. I suggest previewing this video!

Outdoor Hour Time:

• Go on an insect hunt! Look for any insect to observe and compare to a cockroach.
• Observation Ideas: Look at the shape and size of your insect. Look at the antennae. Look at the eyes. Look at the wings.

Follow-Up Activity:

• If you had a cockroach to observe, use the lesson observation suggestions from the Handbook of Nature Study to create a nature journal page.
• Advanced study: Research incomplete metamorphosis. Create a nature journal page that records your findings.
• Advanced study: Research the insect order blattodea. Pick two insects in this order and compare them in your nature journal. There is a notebook page in the ebook for recording your data.

 

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