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One of the crowd
The amazing biology of the desert locust
The desert locust is an amazing animal. It is notorious as a swarming pest with a voracious appetite, but in fact spends most of its life as a shy solitary individual that carefully balances its food intake to match its body’s needs.
This Primary Pack, for Key Stage 2 (ages 8-11), is a series of worksheets and teacher’s notes based around our 'one of a crowd' exhibition.
Worksheets
- What type of animal is my locust? (PDF 81KB)
- Making a life-cycle wheel (PDF 599KB)
- Where do locusts live? (PDF 86KB)
- Locust swarms (PDF 116KB)
- How does a locust eat? (PDF 40KB)
- Food chains (PDF 29KB)
- What type of skeleton? (PDF 69KB)
- How do we grow? (PDF 14KB)
Numeracy worksheet
Literacy worksheet
Discussion sheet
Teacher's notes
- Classification "What is a locust?" (PDF 39KB)
- The life-cycle of the locust (PDF 94KB)
- Where do locusts live? (PDF 86KB)
- Locust feeding, crop damage and control (PDF 66KB)
- Growth and movement (PDF 47KB)
- How are locusts adapted? Fact sheet (PDF 23KB)
- Extra ideas for class activities (PDF 50KB)
Find out more about classification, food chains and life-cycles in our Minibeast discovery pack
Contact
Tristan Bunn, Inspiring Young Scientists Co-ordinator, Norwich Research Park
tristan.bunn@bbsrc.ac.uk
tel: 01603 255017
fax: 01603 255168