To the Senate, and 2 to the governor and his wife. Undaunted, the 26Ĭhildren in the class wrote more than 250 letters-203 to the House, 50 To persuade other legislators to support their cause. The children learned that their next step would be
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Introducing a bill to the state legislature and advised the studentsĪbout how to proceed. The lawmaker was impressed by the children'sĮnthusiasm toward their special project, and subsequently visited Mrs. Insect, they approached their district legislator with their proposalįor a state insect. While is "okay," but to hurt the insect in any way is wrong.)Īfter the children voted for the firefly as their choice for state Taught that to catch a firefly and let it walk over their hands for a Summer night catching "lightning bugs." (The children had been The childrenĪlso liked the fact that summer evenings sparkled with the soft glow of That the scientific name of one firefly species, Photuris pennsylvanica,Ĭlosely resembled the name of their state-Pennsylvania. The major reason for their selection seemed to be The firefly emergedĪs their clear choice. The merits of each, a class vote settled the matter. The praying mantis, dragonfly, ladybug, and grasshopper. The students explored the pros and cons of such bugs as Several insects were nominated each nominee became the subject ofĬareful study. Own democratic election to determine what the state insect should be. Their district legislator in Harrisburg (the state capital).īefore they did so, however, the children decided to conduct their HolzwarthĮxplained that it was a state matter, they directed their efforts to The United States to have him declare a state bug. "state bug." At first they wanted to write to the President of Nickname, and various other official state symbols, but no official Pennsylvania had a state flower, a state song, a state tree, a state Pennsylvania in various books and pamphlets they learned that The students began the process by looking up information about
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Holzwarth's class on one of the most rewarding social studies The idea of a state insectĬaptured the students' interest and provoked them to ask whether The monarch butterfly as the state insect. In a newspaper story about the state of Maryland having recently adopted Were about to wind up a thematic unit on their state when Naisha brought Holzwarth's 4th-graders in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania,
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