Mealworms Life Cycle
Mealworms Diet and Habitat
Mealworms Appearance
Text Features
Scientific Method
100
This is the first stage of the life cycle.
What is an egg?
100
This is something the meal worm eats in the classroom.
What is cereal?
100
The meal worm has this many legs.
What is "six?"
100
This is the word or phrase that the reader sees first in an article. It tells what the topic of the article.
What is the title?
100
This is the first step of the scientific method.
What is "picking a topic?"
200
This is the scientific name for the second stage of the life cycle.
What is larva?
200
This is something the mealworm eats in the "wild."
What is decaying plants/ animals?
200
(This is the question. You say the answer) What are the three body parts of a mealworm?
Head, thorax, body (or abdomen)
200
These are smaller titles of each section.
What are subheadings?
200
This is the step where you record the data from your experiment.
What is the results?
300
True or False: The pupa is active during the third stage.
False. It is inactive.
300
This is what the mealworm lives in, in the classroom.
What is cereal? (or grain)
300
This is the number of segments a meal worm has.
What is "13?"
300
This is a bank of words that the author might include at the end of the article to give definitions.
What is the glossary?
300
This is an educated guess about your question.
What is hypothesis?
400
This is the specific name for the last stage of the life cycle.
What is darkling beetle?
400
True or False: the meal worm needs to drink water?
False. They get all the water they need from grain.
400
The larval eye is located on this body part.
What is the head?
400
(This is the question. You give the answer) Name 3 other text features.
Bold words, color, maps, charts, diagrams, captions, picture....
400
Instead of writing opinions, these are things that scientists write to make accurate observations.
What are facts or details?
500
This is the scientific word for "change" of the body.
What is metamorphosis?
500
This is the place a meal worm lives in the "wild."
What is "under logs and rocks?"
500
This is the color of a mealworm.
What is - light brown with dark brown stripes - little dots along the segments
500
(This is the question. You give the answer). Why do authors include text features?
- To help the reader understand the text more clearly. - To help get the point across in a clear way. - To make it interesting.
500
(This is the question. You say the answer.) What are the three things that your conclusion must include?
1) Your results 2) If your hypothesis was correct 3) What the results mean.
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