Not all minibeasts are insects
Not all minibeasts are insects: distinguishing insects from other minibeasts. Spiders have 8 legs and 2 body parts (arachnids), woodlice have 14 legs (crustaceans), worms have no legs, snails have a shell and one foot. The 'Is it an insect?' sorting game.
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If you showed your child a spider and asked whether it's an insect, could they explain why not — for example, that spiders have eight legs, not six?
Not all minibeasts are insects: distinguishing insects from other minibeasts. Spiders have 8 legs and 2 body parts (arachnids), woodlice have 14 legs (crustaceans), worms have no legs, snails have a shell and one foot. The 'Is it an insect?' sorting game.
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- Sort a set of minibeasts into 'insect' and 'not insect' groups using the six-legs rule
- Explain why a spider is not an insect by noting it has eight legs and two body parts
- Name at least one difference between insects and another minibeast group such as worms having no legs or woodlice having fourteen
“If you showed your child a spider and asked whether it's an insect, could they explain why not — for example, that spiders have eight legs, not six?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- Insects & Minibeasts
- Age range
- Ages 7–9