Project to learn about the life cycle of a butterfly and how the caterpillar becomes to be a butterfly.

Students will explore the life cycle of a butterfly using a website and observations of caterpillar metamorphosis. This instructional activity will incorporate science, mathematics, language arts, and art.

This series of articles is about butterflies and moths that you may see around your house. There is a special focus on the caterpillars that will become the moths because they cause most of the damage to trees.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about monarch butterflies and their migration patterns. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

This site is a lesson plan for teachers. It is a lesson to study the life cycles of a butterfly. It explains how the students would find caterpillars and build a home for them.

Chance and the Butterfly, a novel written by Maggie deVries, looks at a foster child's struggles to fit in at school. He becomes fascinated by the caterpillars being studied in his classroom and takes one home. This teacher's guide...

Learn how to build a butterfly garden and choose plants that will provide food for caterpillars and butterflies.

Site full of beautiful butterfly photographs including the emerging of a butterfly. One link also provides detailed information on the life cycle of a butterfly as well as a quiz to complete when finished.

An extensive list of activities, songs, poems, and fingerplays are listed by alphabet-soup.com. Additional recipes, art projects, and literature connections are also included.

The important thing about this lesson is that it connects literature and science. The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown provides a model for original student poems about a content area topic. Web-based bookmarks guide learners to...

This lesson uses Smart Response technology to review concepts learned at the end of a science unit involving the Life Cycle of a Butterfly. The lesson can easily be adapted to fit the needs of more advanced or slower learners in the...

A very comprehensive site from pedagonet.com that includes lesson plans on insects for all ages and grade levels. Students will enjoy learning about insects as you employ these engaging lesson plans in your own classroom.

A very simple, interactive, and informative explanation of things students can do to learn more about butterflies. Elementary appropriate.

Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" is a great trade book to teach many concepts across the curriculum. This instructional activity has activities to excite your young scholars in all subject areas. Students will be familiar with...

It is that time of the year again when the monarch butterflies make their long journey from Canada to Central Mexico. We follow along on their incredible journey, and look at the challenges they encounter. Includes video (four minutes,...

A very comprehensive site that includes insect lesson plans for ages 3-18 and links to a syllabus, course material, activities, and related resources.

This fun site is designed for teachers who want to have interactive fun in the classroom. "Several articles give resources and basic information about insects and their relatives while others outline activities with different insect...