Summer Learning Fun: Investigating Insects Camp at the Rochester Science Museum
Do you know that spiders are NOT insects? My daughter attended a summer camp for 3-4 year-olds called Investigating Insects at the Rochester Museum & Science Center. There, she learned that insects have three body parts and six legs but spiders, which are also called arachnids, have only two body parts and eight legs. They even learned the following song to remember the parts of an insect.
THE INSECT SONG (TO THE TUNE OF LONDON BRIDGE)
Every insect has 3 parts.
has 3 parts, has 3 parts.
Every insect has 3 parts.
And I can name them all!
Head and thorax, abdomen.
ab-do-men, ab-do-men.
Head and thorax, abdomen
An insect has 3 parts!
Every insect has 6 legs.
has 6 legs, has 6 legs.
Every insect has 6 legs.
Count them all to see.
Every insect has antennae.
has antennae, has antennae.
Every insect has antennae.
That is how they smell.
Sometimes insects have some wings.
have some wings, have some wings.
Sometimes insects have some wings.
That is how they fly!
I found this camp to be very organized. The little campers had four, two-hour days to make projects and learn about insects.
They made a beehive out of toilet paper rolls. Inside is a small bee made out of pipe cleaners.
They made a bug box that contained a paper butterfly.
Here is Olivia showing me the ant farm in a jar that she made. It was a plastic jar containing sand and 2 small plastic ants. How cute!
All the campers had an opportunity to also view real specimens form the Rochester Museum and Science Center teaching collections. They played some “buggy” games and read stories about bugs. After creating their own insects and spiders and their habitats, the kids were given certificates for becoming an entomologist.
The Rochester Museum and Science Center Camps and Mini-Camps provide a great educational opportunity to learn during the summer. What a fun place to learn about God’s creation…the insect. They certainly made a happy camper out of my little one!
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