Bug Bites

Discover bug cuisine from cultures around the world and find bugs in our everyday food. Meet live animals that have been on the menu and taste a few buggy treats!

Curriculum Standards Supported:

Colorado Science Standards

SC.3.2.2: 6. Students can use the full range of science and engineering practices to make sense of natural phenomena and solve problems that require understanding how living systems interact with the biotic and abiotic environment. GLE: 2. Being part of a group helps animals obtain food, defend themselves and cope with changes

SC.3.2.5: 8. Students can use the full range of science and engineering practices to make sense of natural phenomena and solve problems that require understanding how natural selection drives biological evolution accounting for the unity and diversity of organisms. GLE: 5. Sometimes differences in characteristics between individuals of the same species provide advantages in survival and reproduction

SC.4.2.1: 5. Students can use the full range of science and engineering practices to make sense of natural phenomena and solve problems that require understanding how individual organisms are configured and how these structures function to support life, growth, behavior and reproduction. GLE: 1. Organisms have both internal and external structures that serve various functions

SC.5.2.2: 6. Students can use the full range of science and engineering practices to make sense of natural phenomena and solve problems that require understanding how living systems interact with the biotic and abiotic environment. GLE: 2. Matter cycles between air and soil and among plants, animals and microbes as these organisms live and die

SC.MS.2.3: 5. Students can use the full range of science and engineering practices to make sense of natural phenomena and solve problems that require understanding how individual organisms are configured and how these structures function to support life, growth, behavior and reproduction. GLE: 3. Sustaining life requires substantial energy and matter inputs

SC.HS.2.3: 5. Students can use the full range of science and engineering practices to make sense of natural phenomena and solve problems that require understanding how individual organisms are configured and how these structures function to support life, growth, behavior and reproduction. GLE: 3. Organisms use matter and energy to live and grow

SC.HS.2.13: 8. Students can use the full range of science and engineering practices to make sense of natural phenomena and solve problems that require understanding how natural selection drives biological evolution accounting for the unity and diversity of organisms. GLE: 13. Humans have complex interactions with ecosystems and have the ability to influence biodiversity on the planet

SC.HS.3.9: 11. Students can use the full range of science and engineering practices to make sense of natural phenomena and solve problems that require understanding how human activities and the Earth’s surface processes interact. GLE: 9. Resource availability has guided the development of human society and use of natural resources has associated costs, risks, and benefits

SC.HS.3.11: 11. Students can use the full range of science and engineering practices to make sense of natural phenomena and solve problems that require understanding how human activities and the Earth’s surface processes interact. GLE: 11. Sustainability of human societies and the biodiversity that supports them requires responsible management of natural resources, including the development of technologies

Next Generation Science Standards

3-LS2-1 Construct and argument that some animals form groups that help members survive

 4-LS1-1 Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior and reproduction

5-LS2-1 Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment

5-ESS3-1 Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environments

MS-LS2-1 Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem

MS-LS2-5 Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity an ecosystem services

HS-LS2-6  Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interaction in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem