Organisms
	Integration Ideas and Activities Lesson 9 Observing Pill Bugs

Lesson	Activities to Consider	Tools
9	Language Arts
	Language skills: Organisms Poems; use selected poem in a poem folder and cover different language skills; suggestions of skills found at bottom of each poem
	Find pictures of pill bug's relatives (such as the shrimp, lobster, crab, and crayfish) and compare them with the pill bug -- How are they alike and different?
	Write a class poem about the pill bug or have groups or individual students write poems about their favorite animals; compile into a class booklet
	Write a cinquain poem using this form: Noun adjective, adjective verb+ing, verb+ing, verb+ing four word phrase Noun (rename)
	Create an Organisms Picture Dictionary -- students select favorite organism and write what they have learned about that organism; compile into a class booklet
	Create the pill bug stuffed animals from idea outlines in Lesson 7
	Read When It Comes to Bugs by Aileen Fisher; compare bugs found to pill bug
	Read Billy's Beetle by Mick Inkpen; compare beetles