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All about Arthropods

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Book meta-data
  • Reading Box: Sapphire (Levels 29-30)
  • Year: Five
  • Fiction/Nonfiction: Non-fiction
  • Theme/Topic: Animals birds and insects, Scientific investigation
  • Genre: Report
  • Strategy/Skills: Making connections, Determining main ideas, Asking and answering questions
  • Page Count: 32
  • Reading Level: 30
  • Item Code: 200259
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  • Curriculum Codes: ACELA1479, ACELT1594, ACELT1599, ACELT1600, ACELY1678, ACELY1679, ACELY1680, ACELA1489, ACELA1490, ACELT1602, ACELT1604, ACELT1605, ACELY1690, ACELY1691, ACELY1692, ACELA1504, ACELA1797, ACELA1512, ACELT1795, ACELY1701, ACELY1702, ACELY1703
Reader Description

What do a scorpion, a barnacle, and an ant have in common? They all have jointed legs and an exoskeleton, and they belong to a group of animals called arthropods. Arthropods are found just about everywhere - there are even some living on you!

After you have completed the Reader

Explore your garden and look for arthropods. Make a chart with four columns. In the first column, draw the arthropod. In the second column, write down whether it is an insect, an arachnid, a crustacean, or a myriapod. In the third column, write down how many legs the arthropod has. In the fourth column, write down how it protects itself. Record all the arthropods you find.

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