Proposed Health Wise Units (see http://insected.arl.arizona.edu )
Fall 2007 (version 2)
1. Boy Cricket or Girl Cricket (gr.1)
AZ STANDARDS: Science Standards: Strand 1: Concept 1; PO1, PO2
Concept 2; PO1, PO2, PO3, PO4
Strand 4: Concept 2; PO1
Reading Standards: Strand 1: Concept 6; PO2, PO4
Strand 2: Concept 1; PO4
Math Standards: Strand 2; Concept 1; PO2
Concept 2; PO1, PO5
CA STANDARDS: Science Standards: 2a, 2c, 2d, 4a, 4d, 4e, 4f, 4g
Reading Standards: 2.6, 3.1
Writing Standards: 2.2
Math Standards: 1.0,1.1,1.2,1.4
WA STANDARDS: Science Standards: GLE 1.1.6, 1.2.6, 2.1.5, 2.1, 2.1.5
Reading Standards: GLE 2.1.7, 2.3.1, 3.4.1
Math Standards: GLE
Materials list:
 The three charts provided in the packet (identification, drawing,
counting)
 2 dozen crickets (may be purchased at pet stores)
 Clear containers (one per team; 3)
 Sandpaper pieces (2 per student)
 Combs/Tissue (class set)
 “Cricket Song”
 Container to house the crickets (small aquarium or gallon jar, egg
carton, dog food, small lids, paper towel)
 Rhythm instruments (scraping or brushing sounds)*If available from
the teacher or music teacher.
 Cricket; Eric Carle, A Very Quiet Cricket; James Howe; I Wish I
Were a Butterfly
2. Arthropods at Home (gr.2)
AZ STANDARDS: Science Standards: Strand 1: Concept 1; PO1, PO2
Concept 2; PO1, PO2, PO3, PO4
Strand 2: Concept 3; PO1, PO2,
PO3
Strand 4: Concept 2; PO1
CA STANDARDS: Science Standards: 2c, 2d, 4a, 4f, 4g
WA STANDARDS: GLE 1.1.6, 1.2.3, 2.1.2, 2.1.5
Materials list:
 Habitat for arthropods (gallon container with crickets in it).
 Butcher paper and markers (white board)
 Arthropod “home sheet” (class set)
 Mary Hoberman, A House is a House for Me; Doreen Cronin The
Diary of a Spider
3. Washing Germs Away (gr.1)
AZ STANDARDS: Strand 1: Concept 1; PO1, PO2
Concept 2; PO1, PO2, PO4
Strand 2: Concept 2; PO1, PO2, PO3
Strand 4: Concept 2; PO1
CA STANDARDS: 2a, 2b, 2c, 2c, 4a, 4f, 4g
WA STANDARDS: GLE 1.1.6, 1.2.7, 2.1.2, 2.1.5, 3.2.4
Materials list
 One plastic soda bottle per team of students (5)
 String
 Heavy scissors
 Hole punch
 Paper towel roll
 Game cards
 Ice chest or refrigerator
 Cotton balls
 Bait (old fruit, meat soaked in water, dog food)
Books: Doreen Cronin. Diary of a Fly, Hinshaw Patent, Germs Make
Me Sick, Jim Aylesworth, Old Black Fly.
4. Little Me in a Big World (gr.1)
AZ STANDARDS: Strand 1: Concept 1; PO1, PO2
Concept 2; PO1, PO2, PO4
Concept 3; PO1, PO2
Strand 2: Concept 2; PO1, PO2
Strand 4: Concept 2; PO2, PO4
CA STANDARDS: 2b, 2c, 4a, 4d, 4e, 4f, 4g
WA STANDARDS: GLE 1.1.6, 2.1.5, 3.2.4
Materials:
 An observable ant colony/nest
 Ant observation sheets #1/#2 (class set)
 Butcher paper
 Chris Van Allsburg, Two Bad Ants; Arthur Dorros, Ant Cities; Polly
Cameron
5. My Decisions Good or BadAZ STANDARDS: Strand 1: Concept 1 PO1, PO2,
Concept 2 PO1, PO2
Concept 3 PO1, PO2, PO3, PO4
Concept 4 PO1, PO2
Strand 4: Concept 2 PO1
CA STANDARDS: 2b, 2d, 4a, 4c, 4d, 4e, 4g
WA STANDARDS: GLE 1.2.7, 1.2.1, 1.3.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.5, 3.2.4
Materials:
 Mealworms (2 dozen minimum)
 Food for mealworms
 Two film canisters
 Russell Hoban,Bread and Jam for Frances, Yoshi, Butterfly Hunt
6. We Are All In This Together (Culminating activity)
AZ STANDARDS: Strand 1: Concept 1; PO1, PO2
Concept 2; PO1, PO2, PO4
Concept 4; PO1, PO2
Strand 2: Concept 2; PO1, PO2, PO3
Strand 4: Concept 2; PO1
CA STANDARDS: 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 4d, 4f, 4g
WA STANDARDS: GLE 1.1.6, 1.2.3, 1.2.7, 2.1.6, 2.1.5, 3.2.4
Materials:
 Gallon container with collection of insects and arthropods
 Student journals
 Clay, or recycled paper for drawing
 Peter Spier, People

ALTERNATE LESSONS TO BE USED IN THE EVENT OF POOR WEATHER
*Using My Senses (gr.2)
AZ STANDARDS: Science Standards: Strand 1: Concept 1; PO1, PO2
Concept 2; PO1, PO2, PO3, PO4
Strand 4: Concept 2; PO1
Reading Standards: Strand 1 Concept 6; PO4
Math Standards: Strand 2 Concept 1; PO1
CA STANDARDS: Science Standards: 4a, 4d, 4e, 4f, 4g
Reading Standards: 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
Math Standards: 1.0
WA STANDARDS: Science Standards GLE 1.1.6, 1.2.3, 1.2.6, 2.1.2, 2.1.5
Reading Standards: GLE 2.1.4, 2.1.7, 2.3.1
Math Standards:
Materials list:
 Copies of “Walking on Ears”(song) (class set or paired set)
 Cricket diagrams with overhead (class set or paired set)
 5 squares of construction paper per student (100)
 Popcorn and fruit juice
 Aliki, My Five Senses; Eric Carle, A Very Quiet Cricket”
*My Family and Me
AZ STANDARDS: Strand 1: Concept 1; PO1, PO2
Concept 2; PO1, PO2, PO4
Concept 3; PO1, PO2
Strand 2: Concept 2; PO1, PO2
Strand 4: Concept 2; PO2, PO4
CA STANDARDS: 2b, 2c, 4a, 4d, 4e, 4f, 4g
WA STANDARDS: GLE 1.1.6, 2.1.5, 3.2.4
Materials list:
 Ant colony
 Student journals
 Food for ants
 Magnifiers
 Butcher paper
 Arthur Durros Ant Cities, Leo Lioni, Frederick, Vera B. Williams A
Chair for My Mother