All about insects
In this webinar, join Greta Dromgool as she introduces Tom Saunders and Chrissie Painting – two of Aotearoa New Zealand’s amazing entomologists. Delve into the fascinating world of insects and the important learning that can happen if we include them in our classrooms and educational settings.
Students are naturally curious about the world around them and insects offer stimulating material with which teachers can feed that curiosity and grow their students' science knowledge and capabilities.
From observation and classification to life cycles, adaptations and social scientific issues, insects offer it all. Join us to discover engaging resources to support your science teaching.
This session is valuable for both primary and secondary school teachers.
All about insects
This is an edited recording of the PLD webinar All about insects.
Thank you very much. That was very interesting. Looking forward to the next webinar
Participant
All about insects – slideshow
This slideshow, from the webinar All about insects, provides additional support for the video tutorial.
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Index
Topic
Slideshow
number(s )
Video timecode
Introducing the Science Learning Hub and presenters
1–7
00:00
Index
2
00:23
Weird and wonderful insects
8
02:50
What is an insect?
9–12
07:10
Insect senses
13–14
12:05
Life cycles
15–16
17:20
Why learn about insects?
17–18
22:12
Biodiversity
19–20
23:27
The roles of insects
21–24
27:01
Getting hands-on
25–28
35:56
Insects and other learning areas
29–33
39:23
SLH links, keep in touch and thanks
34–36
40:56
Related content
These Buzz in the Garden activities support students to get outside and observe insects.
Check out these resources that unpack how teachers might use the Super Insect cards as a springboard for further exploration and learning.
Citizen scientists – join the New Zealand Mosquito Census and help scientists at Te Papa learn more about the various mosquitos in Aotearoa and their important role in the food chain.
Discover more of our resources on insects or explore the range of content under our invertebrates topic.
Useful links
Useful sites for insect identification include Manaaki Whenua's What’s this bug? and iNaturalist NZ.
Dr Chrissie Painting also shared a link to this citizen science project run through Victoria University. You can find out how to join here.
Acknowledgement
The Science Learning Hub would like to thank Dr Chrissie Painting and Tom Saunders.
