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Hello Students! On this page you will find some helpful resources such as websites, books, and documents, which will help you gather and present your findings for your Insect Project. It is your decision how you wish to find and present your information, however you can download the following documents and print them out, then fill them out by hand if you find this helps you. To do this, simply click on the document you wish to download, such as the worksheet, then click on "Download" then wait for it to load. Once it is loaded, and is up on the screen, click on "Print". You can choose to print one per person in your group, or one between the group and take turns filling out different sections. It is completely up to you and your group! There are also links and photos of interesting sites which will help greatly with finding and gathering information, as well as how to present your findings.

< Download the additional Notes page here.

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Teacher Tube is an educational podcast/website which allows you to watch videos on different subjects. It can help you out a lot with your project, as you can watch videos containing lots of really useful information which you can take notes on and put into your powerpoint presentation. You can re-watch videos as many times as you like, and can search for different things, such as "Butterfly Habitat". Other useful searches you can use to help find information may be "Diet of a butterfly", Lifespan of a butterfly" etc. To go to TeacherTube, click here! Here's an example of a video which came up when I typed in Butterfly Habitat:
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Insects for kids is a website for kids with links to other useful websites which you can use to find information on your chosen insect. If you are researching Dragonflies, simply scroll down the page until it says "Dragonflies" on the left hand side. Next to it, there will be a list of helpful sites to choose from. For example, several sites listed for dragonflies are:
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Diigo is a social networking site which allows you to bookmark, highlight, and add sticky notes to any type of webpage. Once you have made all these bookmarks, sticky notes etc. you can go to your own personalised library, which will have all your findings stored in one location. This would be particulary helpful in the research part of your project, as it can hold all of your findings in one place, and you can come back to it at any time. (can be accessed from any computer). As you will be working in pairs/small groups, you may decided to set up an account between your group members, so your group can add and share information. This means one person could be finding and bookmarking information on the diet of a particular insect, while another group member could be focusing on its habitat. You could then come together as a group and discuss your findings. To find out more about Diigo, and to set up an account, click here. Short video on how to use Diigo: media type="custom" key="18333824" align="center"
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In this activity you can see how different insects fit into their environments and look at the role they play in the food chain of that environment. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This activity is a bit of fun on the topic of your assignment, it is completely up to you whether you use it or not, enjoy!
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Interaction With Living Things

As part of your project, you will have to present your information in a Powerpoint presentation (1 per group). You will then need to present it to the class to show all your hard work off! If you have not used Powerpoint before, here is a website which has visuals and instructions on how to do so. Remember, you can be as CREATIVE as you like, as long as there is sufficient information!
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