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Life Cycle of a Butterfly: Kidspiration
Second graders view a video about butterflies and recall its life cycle. They will also complete a Kidspiration slide show to illustrate the life cycle of a butterfly and study a word list of butterfly vocabulary to include in their...
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Butterfly Lesson Plans
Students study the life cycle of the Monarch Chrysalis. In this butterfly life cycle lesson, students study the monarch butterfly life cycle and focus on the fourth stage of the life cycle. Students draw a picture about the fourth stage...
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Monarch Chrysalis
Students examine the last stage of the monarch butterfly. In this life cycles lesson, students read the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar and study photos of the monarch life cycle. Students illustrate the third stage of the monarch...
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Metamorphosis Magic
Students make different motions for each stage in the butterfly life cycle and plant a garden. In this butterfly life cycle lesson plan, students can take the mini gardens home and discuss how butterflies help gardens.
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Butterfly Baggies
Students create Butterflies out of sandwich baggies in this interesting Art lesson for the early-elementary classroom. The lesson can be connected to a science lesson about butterflies, can be used with other Butterfly art lessons...
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Beautiful Butterflies
Students use coffee filters, pipe cleaners and markers to create butterflies.
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Miracle of Winged Migration
Students explore the life cycle of insects by researching butterflies. In this insect migration instructional activity, students identify the Monarch butterfly, where they inhabit, and what their migration consists of. Students utilize...
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Migration and the Spirits of Life
Pupils study the Mexican traditions for the Day of the Dead. In this Mexican traditions lesson, students study monarch butterflies and learn about the role that the mariposa plays in the Day of the Dead. Pupils learn about migration,...
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Painted Balsa-Foam Butterfly
Students research a butterfly and create butterfly art. In this visual arts lesson, students choose a specific butterfly to research and create a Balsa-Foam butterfly of the same species. Students use Balsa-Foam, modeling tools, and...
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Project Based Technology in Second Grade
The many activities in this resource serve to introduce second graders to the Macintosh computer and to various programs and their creative product options. They make sideshows using KidPix, practice using email with the Journey South...
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Flip Camera Lesson: Louisiana Animal Adaptations
Learners research and present information about Louisiana animal adaptations. In this animal adaptation and video camera activity, students choose an animal from a teacher prepared list. They use the Internet to find five adaptations...
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Tin Can Telephone
Young scholars make telephones. In this visual arts lesson, students follow the provided steps to create their own tin can telephones.