It's a Bug's Life

For the third week of summer camp, I had four enthusiastic and full of energy 5 and 6 year olds. The theme for the week was, "It's a Bug's Life". This week we hunted around the school for insects, bugs of all types, and things that would look different to a bug since they are so small. We checked out the gardens, the flower beds, the playground, the back field and even went for a stroll into the woods one day. We found lots of different species of bugs and plants that would look very different to a bug. We then brought them back in our bug boxes and took a closer look at them under the ProScope Microscope attached to the computer. We recorded video of the live bugs and took pictures of the bugs that didn't move very much. We used these pictures to create a digital audio riddle book using the close up images for the riddles and a regular sized picture for the answers to the riddles. The students really enjoyed collected bugs and going out on our scavenger hunts, but they also enjoyed created the book in Keynote and burning it to a disk so that their whole family could enjoy what they had found. I have published the audio book to YouTube, and you can preview it below as well.