For Educators

Order Products


Login / My Account

Logout
 Article:

Beetles Are Supercool! Understanding the Life Cycle of Mountain Pine Beetles


This article is from Issue Beetles Are Supercool! (Climate Change Monograph Series) - Vol. 1 No. 2.

Download Article:   English Version      (Spanish - Not Available)

* Note: All editions of the Natural Inquirer starting with Volume 5 and including future editions require the newest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 in order to be downloaded. We have upgraded in order to ensure greater accessibility to PDF files. Please click on the following link if you need to upgrade your Adobe Acrobat reader: Upgrade now to Adobe Reader 6.0. It is a free upgrade.


Welcome to the Climate Change Education Series

Note to Educators

Lesson Plan

Reflection Section Answer Guide

Education Standards Correlations 

Additional Resources for this Article:
Meet the scientists that contributed to this article:

"Science Topics" covered in this article:
  • Earth Science
  • Life Science

"Environmental Topics" covered in this article:
  • Importance of Forest Insects
  • Natural Processes (Students)
  • The Value of Forests and Grasslands (Educators)

Specific "Thinking About Science" Themes:
  • The Scientific Process
  • Uses and Benefits of Science

Specific "Thinking About the Environment" Themes:
  • Cycles
  • Regulation

NSE Standards covered in this article:
  • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry (A)
  • Diversity and adaptations of organisms (C)
  • Natural hazards (F)
  • Nature of science (G)
  • Populations and ecosystems (C)
  • Regulation and behavior (C)
  • Reproduction and heredity (C)
  • Science and technology in society (F)
  • Science as a human endeavor (G)
  • Structure of the earth system (D)
  • Understandings about science and technology (E)
  • Understandings about scientific inquiry (A)