Stories of Insects
Stories of Insects
List of educational resources for parents and teachers to read online, to download in PDF format, or to listen to as audio stories
Our stories are a great tool to improve the education of your children and enhance your family atmosphere. Whether in family or in the classroom, as audio or as reading, using pictures or simple text, parents and teachers will discover with them a new way to successfully teach values to children, while enjoying each and every learning minute.
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List including all our stories about Insects . Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
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Educational Value
- Trustworthiness and honesty
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| Honesty is valued by all, and when we are dishonest, people lose faith in us. | The countryside | A group of travelling ladybirds |
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A strange legend has it that ladybirds forgive but don't forget. Apparently, at first they didn't have their distinctive black spots. The ladybirds had been pushed to the verge of extinction when, while being led by their famous guide...
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Educational Value
- Teamwork and wit
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| If you work together in a team you can achieve much more than you could have done on your own | A garden after a big party | The garden insects and some balloons |
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The day finally arrived. It was time for the great acrobatic balloon competition. Every insect in the garden had been training hard, and now they were preparing to begin their routines. The balloon competitions were ...
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Educational Value
- Avoid stereotypes
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| You can’t judge anyone based purely on stereotypes. | A prairie post office for insects | A horsefly, a spider, a beetle, a praying mantis, and a grasshopper |
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Mr. Horsefly was the new head of the prairie post office. He had put a lot of time and effort into getting this highly respected position; he had even moved fields. If you asked Mr. Horsefly, he would tell you that he got the job thanks to his great deductive gifts. On his first day at work...
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Educational Value
- Humility
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| Vanity provokes others to serve up some painful lessons on humility | A flower garden | A butterfly and a cockroach |
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Once, in a lovely garden, lived the most beautiful butterfly in the world. She was so pretty, and had won so many beauty contests, that she had become vain. So much so...
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Educational Value
- Fair play, respect and tolerance
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| Sport is just a game. It should not arouse feelings of aggression and anger | The trunk of a big hollow tree | Ants |
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For those few days the big hollow tree was buzzing with activity. It was time for the Scuttleball World Championship. Scuttleball was soccer for ants; and it was definitely their favourite sport. Ants of all shapes and sizes...
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Educational Value
- Responsibility y constancy
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| Responsibility is to be measured by how we approach the seemingly less important tasks in life | A modern school | A girl, her teacher, and an ant |
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The day when the jobs were handed out was one of the most exciting for all the children in the class. It took place during the first week of the term. On that day, every boy and girl was given a job for which they would...
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