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In warmer months people shed their winter layers for shorts, tee-shirts, and flip flops. Mosquitoes love warm weather skin exposure as it’s easier access to their food supply—YOU! Mosquito bites are itchy, irritating, annoying, and hard to avoid. This issue dives deeper into the mosquito life cycle and how scientists are working to “abate”—or suppress—the problem so you can have a summer with less scratching. Discover which gender does the biting, and different features distinguishing males from females. Learn why their nasty bites itch, and how to prevent that itch from spreading. Use your imagination to pen a story about why mosquitos buzz in people’s ears. You’ll be on the alert and ready for these warm weather invaders!
In this issue students will:
- read informational text about an insect
- learn stages of the life cycle
- identify which mosquitos bite humans
- understand ways to abate mosquito growth
- follow a sequence of visual clues to draw an adult mosquito
- calculate the value of words in the newspaper
- learn why bites itch
- write creatively about bothersome buzzers
7 page PDF
