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Grade 2 | Knowledge 8: Insects

Lesson 5:
Social Insects:
Ants and
Termites

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Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

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Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

I can present my journal entries explaining how honeybees
and paper wasps are social insects.

I can explain how ants and termites are social insects.

I can demonstrate an understanding of the word destructive.

I can plan an informational story.

Vocabulary

Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

aggressive

chambers

destructive

emit

nurseries

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Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

What have we learned
about social insects?

​Share your entry with a partner.

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“Social Insects:
Ants and Termites”

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Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Reorder

Put the four stages of complete metamorphosis in order.

• egg

• larva

• pupa

• adult

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Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Multiple Choice

What does cooperate mean?

• To work together

• To compete against others
• To work alone without any help
• To ignore others and do things your own way

Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

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Multiple Choice

Ants are social insects. What reasons did the author give to support this statement?

• Everyone works by themselves.

• Ants live and work together in colonies with specialized jobs.

• They fight with each other and don't cooperate.

• They live alone and do not interact with other ants

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What word are we going to talk about?

destructive

Knowledge 8, Lesson 5: Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Making Choices Activity

destructive

If something is destructive, it causes great damage
or harm.

Multiple Choice

The engineers built a new bridge over the river.

• That is constructive.

• That is destructive.

Multiple Choice

I helped my little sister learn to tie her shoe.

• That is constructive.

• That is destructive.

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The puppy chewed through my mother's new shoes.

• That is constructive.

• That is destructive.

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The ocean wave destroyed the sand castle I built on the beach.

• That is constructive.

• That is destructive.

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We helped plant flowers in the garden.

• That is constructive.

• That is destructive.

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