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Arthropoda (crustaceans, insects)

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Arthropoda
An overview of the Arthropoda from the NHPTV website Wildlife Journal Junior. You can explore from phylum to individual species.
Intended Audience:Students Reading Level: Elementary/Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: Yes

pbsPhylum Arthropoda
This companion site to the PBS series The Shape of Life looks at arthropods. The site includes includes images, curriculum materials, and online video.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

Butterflies and Moths of North America
This extensive site from the Big Sky Institute at Montana State University has profiles and images of hundreds of butterfly and moth species found in North America. You can search for species by state or county.
Intended Audience:General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No

The Children's Butterfly Site
This site for kids from he Big Sky Institute at Montana State University has lots of information and images of butterflies! You'll find coloring sheets, a look at the life cycle of butterflies, and you can even submit a butterfly story!
Intended Audience:Students Reading Level: Elementary School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes

Insect Theme Page at Enchanted Learning
You'll find insect rhymes, crafts, coloring sheets, and quizzes at this site for kids. Be sure to check out the special collection of butterfly resources. Note: While the site is aimed at children, there is a lot on the site and it might be easier for students if the teacher prints out the materials or guides students through them.
Intended Audience:Students/Teachers Reading Level: Elementary School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

Monarch Watch
Join students across the country in tagging and monitoring the migration of the monarch butterfly! You'll find loads of information about the monarch butterfly, tips on creating a butterfly garden, and lots more at this site from the University of Kansas!
Intended Audience:Students Reading Level: Elementary School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

Book of Insect Records
What's the fasted insect? What insect has the longest migration? What insect has the longest life span? Find out at this site from the University of Florida.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: No Searchable: Yes

What is an Insect?
This site from Yahoo Kids has profiles of over 100 insects.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Elementary School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No

Bug Bios
Get a close-up look at insects with amazing macro photography! You can also learn more about the role insects play in your life, and learn more about butterfly wing patterns.
Intended Audience:General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

Let's Talk About Insects!
Check out this narrated look at insects for kids from the University of Illinois. Available in Spanish and English.
Intended Audience:Students Reading Level: Elementary Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

Insects
Learn all kinds of things about insects at this site for kids from the USDA.
Intended Audience:Students Reading Level: Elementary Teacher Section: No Searchable: No

Phylum Arthropoda
You'll find images, descriptions, and specimens of insects, spiders and crustaceans at this site form Animal Diversity Web.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes

Arthropoda
This site from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute has some images and information for 331 species of crustaceans and 160 insects species.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section:No Searchable: Yes

Introduction to the Arthropoda
You can learn more about the fossil record, life history, and systematics of insects and crustaceans at this site from the University of California Museum of Paleontology.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No




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Online Video

Silence of the Bees
What is happening to the honeybee? This site from the PBS series Nature looks at a 2006 disappearance of honeybees from hives across the country. Critical to the pollination of crops, the unexplained deaths place the nations food supply in danger. Source: PBS

Crash: A Tale of Two Species
This episode of Nature looks at the interconnected relationship between the red knot and the horseshoe crab. Source: PBS

The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies
Follow the 2,000-mile migration of monarchs to a sanctuary in the highlands of Mexico in this episode of NOVA. Source: PBS

Lord of the Ants
This episode of NOVA profiles E. O. Wilson's groundbreaking work with ants and their chemical language. Source: PBS

Insects
This segment of Up Close and Natural, a series for grades K-4, looks at insects and contrasts a monarch butterfly's life cycle with that of a grasshopper. Source: NHPTV

Karner Blue Butterfly
Learn about the state butterfly of New Hampshire and the role one plant, blue lupine, plays in its survival. Source: NHPTV

Butterfly Wings
In this video from DragonFly TV, kids visit the Butterfly House at the North Carolina Museum of Life Sciences and learn about different kinds of butterflies including the Blue Morpho. Source: PBS

Betty Farber: Entomologist
This clip from Dragonfly TV profiles Betty Farber, who talks about how she became interested in insects. Source: PBS

Animal Videos
Click on the invertebrate category and you'll find video of crabs, lobsters, and shrimp. Click on the bugs category and you'll find video of insects! Source: National Geographic

National Geographic Kids
Dung Beetle
Monarch Butterfly
Praying Mantid

Arkive Videos and Images
Zebra Spider
Mexican Rustleg Tarantula
Blue Poison Frog
Coconut Crab
Harvestman
Horseshoe Crab



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