This activity aims to take out the esoteric nature of scientific names. Using the dragonfly stimulus sheet that you can download from this post, I ask students to find a texture or colour from some old National Geographic magazines. They use this portion to stick onto the top set of wings.
Then students use the Wikipedia (or some other source) to find Greek or Latin roots that describe their wings and name their dragonfly.
They look great displayed together, as a swarm of dragonflies. There are labels for each dragonfly too.
