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Butterfly Introduction

For Teachers 1st
First graders create a KWL chart about butterflies and then read a story about butterflies. In this butterflies lesson plan, 1st graders then discuss the life cycle, body, habits, and facts about butterflies as they read.
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The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

For Students 4th - 6th
In this life cycle of a butterfly worksheet, students answer 7 short answer questions, draw a picture of a butterfly, answer 4 vocabulary questions and fill in 6 fill in the blank statements about butterflies.
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Science - Life Cycle of the Butterfly

For Students 4th - 6th
In this butterfly worksheet, students learn about the 4 stages that a butterfly goes through during metamorphosis. They then use what they learned to answer the 9 questions on the page. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Butterfly Mobile

For Students 1st - 2nd
In these mobile activity worksheets, learners follow the directions to color and create a butterfly mobile. Students follow 7 directions.
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Life Cycle of the Butterfly

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students investigate the life cycle of butterflies. In this butterfly lesson, students record the life cycle of a butterfly using digital cameras. Students make digital books or slide shows at the end of the project.
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Peter The Butterfly

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete an interdisciplinary unit chronicling the life cycle and movement patterns of the butterfly. Through language arts, mathematics, and science activities, students identify various types of butterflies and document the...
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Monarch Butterfly Diagram and Labeling Worksheet

For Students 4th - 5th
In this butterfly anatomy activity, students study the detailed labeled diagram of a Monarch butterfly. Students then fill in the blanks in a diagram of their own.
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Very Neat Butterfly Feet

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete a craft project.  In this art and poetry lesson, students use their own feet to create a picture of a butterfly.  Students attach their poem to their butterfly picture.
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The Butterfly Project

For Students 7th - 8th
In this project instructional activity, learners use rubber bands to enlarge pictures of butterflies found at the Butterflies of Illinois website.
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Butterfly Life Cycle

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this life science learning exercise, students draw a picture of each stage of the butterfly life cycle. They fill in four squares of a chart with the picture of a butterfly egg, larva or caterpillar, pupa or chrysalis, and a butterfly.
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Butterfly and Caterpillar

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students listen to the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and create their own "Very Hungry Caterpillar" book to learn the life cycle of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Life Cycles

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students study the butterfly life cycle. In this interdisciplinary life cycles lesson, students study the life cycle of a butterfly, their migration habits, and the culture of the region in Mexico where butterflies migrate to in the winter.
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Leo and the Butterflies

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read a book entitled, "Leo and the Butterflies." They discuss the rainforest and butterflies. Students observe the pictures and predict what will happen in the story. They examine reading strategies for decoding unfamiliar...
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Word Search: Butterfly

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this butterfly word search worksheet students locate 15 words and mark them in the puzzle. All pertain to butterflies. This is a butterfly shaped puzzle.
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Caterpillar and Butterfly

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this caterpillar and butterfly worksheet, students choose one species of butterfly and write the name at the top of the page. Students draw a picture of the caterpillar and butterfly and then answer 5 essay questions about its life...
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Butterflies And Lady Bugs

For Teachers K
Students engage in a variety of fun art activities about butterflies and lady bugs. Eric Carle's books are used as an opener for the lessons. They make t-shirts, sandwiches and a lady bug paper weight.
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Growing Up in the Atlantic Rainforest

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
For this science worksheet, students read and study pictures about the life cycle of a butterfly. Students then answer 10 questions about the passage. There is a word bank.
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Flutter Farm

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the life cycle of butterflies. In this butterfly lesson, 5th graders use their research skills to create a PowerPoint presentation featuring the butterflies of North America.
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Butterfly Fun

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
In this addition and subtraction activity, students solve a set of nine two-digit addition and subtraction problems. Once finished computing, they color spaces with even-numbered answers blue and odd-numbered answers purple, then color...
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"In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

For Students 8th - 12th
Chapter six of In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez's historical novel about the Mirabal sisters, is the focus of a worksheet that asks readers to define a list of vocabulary words and respond to a series of comprehension...
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Reading Adventure Pack: What's Next? The Very Hungry Caterpillar

For Parents Pre-K - K Standards
A series of hands-on activities follows a reading of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Learners create a paper collage to explore the beginning, middle, and end of days of the week, numbers, and more. They grow a butterfly...
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Organizer
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Adopt-an-Insect Butterfly Report

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this butterfly research worksheet, students complete 7 short answer categories pertaining to the life of a butterfly. This worksheet provides a visual template for the students to record facts about one butterfly species in an...
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Ten Little Butterflies

For Students K - 2nd
In this counting to ten worksheet, students cut out and color ten butterfly shapes. Students read the poem called Ten Little Butterflies and act out the events with their paper butterflies.
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Discovering Butterflies...

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this butterflies worksheet, learners discover a new butterfly, color it, give it a Latin name, write down its larval food plant and then submit it to a specific website.

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