Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary: Learn All About the Butterfly Life Cycle
An animated video illustrates the life cycle of butterflies. [1:43]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Butterfly Life Cycle Fitness
Science and exercise unite in this Kindergarten through 5th grade video! Students learn about the life cycle of a butterfly while performing certain physical tasks at each stage.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Raising Monarch Butterflies
A set of activities and a video that look at the life cycle of the monarch butterfly and at its migration to Mexico. The activities include raising butterflies, tagging them, and creating a butterfly garden. [1:42]
Next Vista for Learning
Next Vista for Learning: Life Cycle of a Butterfly
A short video showing the stages of the life cycle of a butterfly. See how a butterfly develops from a tiny egg. [0:58]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Metamorphosis: How Frogs, Dragonfiles & Butterflies Grow
All animals develop and grow over time. The animals in this video segment, however, undergo very dramatic changes on their way to adulthood--a developmental process known as metamorphosis. [4:45]
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Board Game
In this video, students sit around a poster board and state stages in the life cycles of a butterfly and then a frog, placing pictures and other elements on the board that represent each stage. [2:44]
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Tableau / Human Paragraph
In this video, students perform tableaux of the life cycles of a butterfly and then a frog while a classmate announces the stages they are demonstrating. [3:02]
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Dramatization
In this video, students perform dramatizations of the life cycles of a butterfly and then a frog to music and sound effects by classmates. [2:52]
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Physicalizing a Thinking Chart
In this video, students state facts about frogs and butterflies as they each place themselves in hula hoops laid out to organize the similarities, differences, and commonalities between the two organisms. [2:46]