Literature
Cricket In Times Square George Seldan
A Very Quiet Cricket Eric Carle
A Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens
My Cricket Emily Dickenson
Folktales
The Ant and the Grasshopper
superstition
crickets are lucky
modern culture
Pinochio and Jimny Cricket (Disney)
There is a darling cricket in MULAN--the new Disney movie!
Urban lore
Crickets are an insect that lives in the city and flys to lights by the thousands causing many accidents in some cities. Highway lights have to be turned off.
Home Careers
cricket recipes
Entertaining with Insects
Art/Multicultural project
Aztec grasshoppers in modeled in clay
Hopi/Navaho insects painted on clay pots
clay models of crickets
make construct model of cricket wing
Music
Buddy Holly and the Crickets! (This group influenced how the Beatles chose their name!)
cricket songs
wings have a rasp and comb in place
Math
do the calculations on the temperature of the call
One of the formulas for estimating temperature on the basis of cricket chirping is to count the number of chirps in 15 seconds and add 38. The answer should be close to the temperature on a Fahrenheit thermometer.
Measure how far they can hop!
review methods for measuring, tools and set up
Title:
25 low cost biology investigations [Books]
Author:
Joel Beller ; illustrated by Dawn Laurel Nelson
Date:
c. 1994
Publisher:
Portland, ME : J. Weston Walch, Publisher
Grade Level:
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
another kit
Insects [Kits]
1993 edition.
Series:
Britannica Science System (BSS).
Full Option Science System (FOSS).
Author:
Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California.
Date:
c. 1993.
Publisher:
Berkeley, CA : Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California
Grade Level:
1, 2
Audience:
Bilingual students.
English as second language (ESL) students. Hispanic-American students.
Minority students.
more
Entomology [Print Materials]
Series:
Real kids/real science books.
Author:
written by Ellen Doris ; original photography by Len Rubenstein ; produced in association with The Children's School of Science, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Date:
c. 1993 Publisher: New York, NY : Thames and Hudson, Inc.
Grade Level:
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Another
Insects
Series:
Hawaii Nature Study Program.
Author:
by Sister Edna Louise Demanche and Marlene Nachbar Hapai
Date:
c. 1980
Publisher:
Honolulu, HI : Hawaii Nature Study Program, Curriculum Research and Development Group, University of Hawaii
Grade Level:
Kindergarten, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
another
Biology : an environmental approach [Print Materials]
Adaption.
Series:
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS). Biology An
Environmental Approach
Author:
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS)
Date:
c. 1972
Publisher:
London, England : John Murray
Grade Level:
9, 10, 11, 12
and
Probing the physical world. Volume 5. [Print Materials]
Author:
developed by Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS)
Date:
c. 1968
Publisher:
Tallahassee, FL : Florida State University
Grade Level:
6, 7, 8, 9
Chapter
Fishing for answers with crickets; Crickets are out
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