Flowers+and+Insects

toc Tooter 4 Kids Insect poems featuring a cricket, a caterpillar, an ant and a mosquito plus a song and an insect rap. Kids Yahoo Information and photographs about bees, wasps, ants, butterflies and moths. Wikipedia Photographs and detailed information about ants. National Geographic Photographs and information about ants. [|National Geographic] Video about a colony of fire ants. National Geographic Kids Explains how you can bait ants to observe them. HowStuffWorks Explains how honey is made. National Geographic Kids An article about the honeybee. EqualExchange Information about Fairtrade honey producers. Van Gogh Gallery Biography, information and images of Van Gogh’s famous paintings. Kidzone Information and photographs of the Monarch butterfly. Classics for Kids Features music samples, biographies of composers and information about the orchestra. Pedagonet.com Huge range of insect lesson plans and resources for teachers. [|Parts of a Plant] [|Minibeasts] [|Need to Grow] [|What Plants] [|Plant Explorer]
 * Websites **

Stories
[|Bonny, Banana, Mo and the Sunflower] Find out what happens with Bonny plants a sunflower seed. [|Dotties Garden] Basic explanation of planting a seed [|Pumpkin, pumpkin] Non Fiction [|The Big Beastie Thing] A Razzledazzle story about Tony the ant and his adventures around the garden. [|The Lucky Seed] [|What Will I Be] [|When I Grow Up] [|Buzzy bee’s night out] [|The Butterfly Trail]

**Games**
Plants and Animals in the Local Environment BBC Schools Science interactive game Growing Plants BBC Schools Science interactive game Bees and Honey Help the bees find flowers so they can make honey [|Growing Plants] [|Butterfly Life Cycle] [|Mr Tumble and the Minibeasts] BBC games and Songs [|BBC] Insect Game Pest World Help Archibald the Ant on his adventure to find food.

**Videos**
//To watch a YouTube video in safe mode, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on ‘Safety mode: Off’, then select the ‘On’ option// [|Life Cycle Videos] Life Cycle of the Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly. PBS video Takes an inside look at the honeybee hive. YouTube Real-life footage showing the complete metamorphosis from egg to larva to pupa and then adult bee. Honey Farm Complete production process from the hive to the jar. Disney’s Come On Let’s Crawl to the Ugly Bug Ball (with words so that you can sing along). Ants in Your Pants song and video for kids by Eric Herman Music.

**Software**
Google Earth Wordle software Graphics software Dazzle or RM Colour Magic