We suggest students work in pairs. Homeschool students can work on their own.

Teacher Background

For animals that give birth to live young, their birthday is straightforward. For those animals that lay eggs, we use the day that they hatch from their egg as their birthday. Many science standards state that all animals are born, equating hatching with birth.

We suggest students work in pairs so they can share their ideas with a partner. Homeschool students can work on their own.

We have provided three Bug Off! worksheets, each picturing a different location in town. In a class, we suggest giving students a choice of which site they’d like to work with. You could also choose to have everyone come up with a solution for the same site. If students finish early, you can have them work on other sites so they can think of multiple solutions to the mosquito problem.

We suggest students work in pairs. Homeschool students will need a partner to play the game.

Teacher Background

All the plants in the activity game are annuals, which means they die every winter and must be replanted every year from seed. We do not discuss annual versus perennial plant life cycles in this particular lesson.

Extend This Activity

In the extensions, we have another set of Plant Cards with different annual garden plants. Check out the Extensions for further instructions.