Ami Thompson

Dragonfly Curriculum Guide Ami Thompson

Publisher Marketing: Discover teaching with dragonflies! This curriculum guide includes 17 hands-on dragonfly activities with ready-to-go handouts incorporating science, art, language arts, math, and engineering. This guide is perfect for classroom teachers, naturalists, parents, and anyone who wants to bring kids outside! The activities were designed for elementary and middle school students. However, they are readily adaptable for all ages (including adults). Each lesson provides in-depth background information about dragonfly life history and gives step-by-step instructions for student activities. The activities were created to complement Minnesota state science standards and The Framework for K-12 Science Education. Ami Thompson has been a naturalist for 15 years working as a Wisconsin and Minnesota state naturalist and as a National Park Ranger. She started her own environmental education business in 2008. This is her first published curriculum guide. The Minnesota Dragonfly Society was instrumental in the creation of this guide. Its members dispensed valuable advice and guidance to the author as well as provided most of the amazing dragonfly photography. A portion of the profits from the sales of this guide will be donated back to the Society.