Insect Flash Cards
Insect flash cards for kindergarten to 4th grade with 24 lifelike bug pictures, names and fun facts, plus a practice page and answer key included, to grow science vocabulary.
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How to Teach Insect Names
These insect flash cards help children learn the names of 24 real insects and one true fact about each. Every card shows a lifelike, field-guide style picture on the front, so children see what the insect really looks like: an ant, a bumblebee, a monarch butterfly, a firefly, a praying mantis, a stag beetle, a walking stick and many more. Insects are small animals with six legs and three body parts, and seeing each one up close makes the name easy to remember.
How to Use the Insect Flash Cards
The cards are fold-over cards, so there is no double-sided printing. Print the sheets on one side, fold each sheet on the center line, then make a few straight cuts. The picture is on the front; the name and a short fact are inside. Younger children look at the picture, say the name and open the card to check. Older children read the fact and tell a partner what they learned, or use the cards as a word wall for insect writing.
What’s Included
- A How to Use page with steps, prep and extension ideas
- 24 fold-over insect flash cards on 8 sheets
- A 1st grade practice worksheet: read the word and circle the picture
- A card list answer key with every card by number
- An answer key for the practice worksheet
Why These Flash Cards Help Kids
- Real pictures build accurate science vocabulary that children can use in reading and writing.
- The fold-over design lets children quiz themselves and check their own answers.
- Short facts give older readers something to read, explain and write about.
Ideas for Teachers and Parents
Have children count the legs on every card and find that each insect has six. Sort the cards into insects that fly and insects that walk, or into beetles and not beetles. Put the cards on a ring in a science center, play a guessing game where one child describes an insect and another names it, or have each child pick a card and write two sentences about it. These kindergarten insect cards also make a great word wall for a bug unit from kindergarten through 4th grade.
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