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Rainforest Introduction

For Teachers 1st
First graders create parrots and butterflies by using art materials to introduce them to rainforest animals. In this art lesson plan, 1st graders then use these animals to create a class rainforest.
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Migrating Monarchs and Trekking Timber wolves on the Internet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn and observe the life cycle of a monarch butterfly. They explore how wolves maintain complex social structure through scent, communications, and postures.
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Signs of Spring

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students identify the first signs of Spring. They track birds and butterflies on their journey North.
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Creating Research Projects Using the Internet

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discuss methods of locating information on the internet. They visit a specific website about butterflies and explore its homepage and web links. As students examine the site, they take notes and organize information for a...
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The World of Insects and Spiders

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners identify numerous insects and their body parts.  In this insect life lesson, students practice using scientific vocabulary while comparing the different parts of spiders and insects.  Learners view several videos...
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Milkweed and Monarch Quiz

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this milkweed and monarch butterfly worksheet, students take a quiz online about the milkweed and monarch butterflies. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions.
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Evolution of Life

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the evolution of life. They read sections of their text and make a foldable of the key vocabulary terms. They identify two types of butterflies and represent their similarities and differences on a Venn diagram. They...
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Finish This Picture: Butterfly

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this recognizing details learning exercise, students examine the two pictures and finish the picture of the butterfly on the right with the same details as those in the picture of the butterfly on the left.
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Cloze Activity: Mini Worlds

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this butterflies, moths, and caterpillars cloze procedure worksheet, learners review a brief selection that is missing 10 words and then attempt to fill in each blank with a word they think the author might have used. A word bank is...
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Butterfly Pictures

For Students K - 2nd
In this artistic worksheet, students study, analyze and describe the differences in six different butterfly pictures and then color each one.
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Butterflies and Flowers

For Teachers K
Students observe and demonstrate the concepts of over, under, and on. Using a cutout of a flower and a butterfly, they identify if the butterfly is over, under, or on the flower. Students complete a worksheet along with the teacher, and...
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"Caterpillars to Butterflies"

For Teachers K - 1st
Students participate in a variety of activities about how caterpillers become butterflies.
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Butterfly Report

For Students 4th - 6th
In this biology activity, students draw or trace an accurate picture of a butterfly. Then they complete the information related to their butterfly's classification and list the habitats where they are likely to be found. Students also...
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Looking at shapes, colours and patterns in Flowers and Butterflies

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students study patterns, lines, shapes, and colors in both flowers and butterfly wings. They create their own flower and butterfly drawings and/or models to reinforce the concept.
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The Butterfly Project: Study and Response to Children's Poetry

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders read various examples of poems of the humans behind the Holocaust and who perished during the event. Focusing on the number of children who died, they collect butterflies for the Holocaust Museum in Houston. They view...
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Creating a Dichotomous Key for Families of Idaho Butterflies

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students are shown how to use the butterfly section of the Digital Altals of Idaho. They discuss how to make a dichotomous key. Students use their skills of observation and recognize defining characteristics that distinguish different...
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Collage Butterflies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students make their own butterfly on contact paper. In this art lesson, students cut or tear small pieces of tissue paper to put on their butterfly. Students place another piece of contact paper over the tissue paper pieces and cut the...
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Observing Fall Migrants

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Pupils observe the migration of monarch butterflies. They collect data regarding the number of monarchs they see, the location, the butterflies' behavior, the temperature and the date and time. Then they send their data to a university...
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Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test 4th Grade Reading Sample Test: Butterfly Poetry

For Students 4th
In this reading worksheet, 4th graders prepare for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test by completing this practice test. Students read the tips and hints, read the butterfly poems and answer 8 multiple choice and essay questions....
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Weather Conditions During the Fall Monarch Migration

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students keep detailed weather records during the fall migration of the monarch butterfly. They compare weather conditions to the days they do and do not see monarchs. As a class, they graph and analyze data and send it to a university...
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Monarch Butterfly

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this monarch butterfly story template worksheet, students color the picture of the butterfly and then write a story to match the picture.
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Counting to 20 Fish and Snails

For Students K - 2nd Standards
In this counting activity, students count up the number of butterflies in each problem up to the number 20. Students count butterflies in 2 problems.
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Instructor's Lesson Plan for Butterflies & Blooms

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students use applicable++ techniques to create a quilt with the Butterflies and Blooms design. They begin with a small project such as a sachet, selecting a section of a large design. Instructions are included for beginner as well as...
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The Very Hungry Class

For Teachers K
Students listen to a read aloud of Eric Carle's, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, as an introduction to their study of the metamorphosis of a butterfly. They participate in a number of cross-curricular activities in this unit of lessons.

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