Goal:  Students will read, write, listen and speak for a information and an understanding of a grasshopper’s body.

Objectives:
-Students will be able to state the differences between a grasshopper and a cricket.
  Bloom’s Taxonomy Level-Knowledge
-Students will be able to label a grasshopper’s body by listening to a story.
  Bloom’s Taxonomy Level-Knowledge
-Students will be able to share their ideas on the differences between a grasshopper and        cricket with the class.
  Bloom’s Taxonomy Level-Synthesis
-Students will use their listening skills, when following along with the story, to label the       grasshopper’s body.
  Bloom’s Taxonomy Level-Knowledge

Materials: grasshopper worksheet, Grasshoppers and Crickets, by Dorothy Hogner, science journals, chalkboard

Time:  40 minutes

Introduction: The students will need to get their science journals out and open to the page where they compared the grasshopper and cricket for homework.  The teacher will draw two columns on the chalkboard to write the similarities and differences the students found.  The teacher will lead a discussion about the similarities and differences and then the students will then copy the two columns in their science journals.

Development:  The teacher will hand out a worksheet that has a grasshopper’s body on        it.
-The teacher will explain to the students that they will have to follow along and listen to       the grasshopper story so they will be able to fill in the body parts.
-The story tells where the body parts are on the grasshopper so the students will be able       to find them easily, if they are listening and paying close attention.
-The teacher will read the parts slow so the students will be able to follow along and fill       them in.
-The teacher will tell the class that the story is only going to be read twice to test their          listening skills as well as their knowledge of a grasshopper’s body parts.
 

Closure: The teacher will give the students time to look in their science journals to review for the next day.  The next day the students will be developing an insect book that will be formally assessed.  It will show how much they have learned about insects.

Assessment:   Students will be graded according to the worksheet they filled in while listening to the teacher read.  The student’s grade will reflect their listening skills.