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Academic Standards
Reading Objective:
Children will learn about a scorpion’s creepy but useful adaptation that helps it get the food it needs to survive.
Reading Level:
Lexile: 520L; GRL: J
Next Generation Science Standards:
2-LS4 Interdependent relationships in ecosystems
Vocabulary:
adaptations, venom
Use these questions to check students’ understanding and stimulate discussion:
1. What is an adaptation? (a special body part that can help an animal get food and survive)
2. What is the scorpion’s stinger filled with? (venom)
3. Why doesn’t the scorpion eat the cricket right away? (The cricket is too big for the scorpion’s tiny mouth.)
4. How can scorpion venom help us? (It can be used to make medicine.)
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Materials: pencils, copies of the skill sheet
(optional: scrap cardboard, plastic bottles, string, other assorted craft supplies)
Overview: Children will use pencil and paper to design a trap for insects. If you have time and materials, they can build their traps!
Directions: