1. Observation And Study

Make a list of the facts you know about grasshoppers.

Copy these questions. See how many of them you can find answers for by next Monday.

Where do grasshoppers live?

How do they move about? What parts of the body do they use in moving?

What do they eat? How do they eat?

How do they make their music? At what time of day?

What enemies have they? Do they do any harm?

How long do they live?

Some of these facts you can easily find out if you put a grasshopper in a box with some food, and cover the box with netting. Some points you will need to ask other people about, or learn from books.1

If you prefer, you may study the cricket or the katy-did in the same way.

2. Written Composition

Write an account of the insect you studied. Tell about as many of these topics as you can:

1. Its appearance.

2. Its movements

3. Its food.

4. Its enemies.

5. The harm it may do.

1 Information upon this and other nature-topics can be found in Nature-Study Agriculture, The Illinois Series, by Alice Jean Patterson, published by John O. Coulter, Bloomington, 111.