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Butterfly Life Cycles

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

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars create a butterfly displaying a mirror image of itself to show that it is symmetrical. For this symmetry lesson plan, students go over symmetry in different shapes and identify patterns in butterflies.
Worksheet
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Science Crossword Puzzles - The Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly

For Students 3rd
In this science crossword puzzle worksheet, 3rd graders determine the answer to 7 clues using vocabulary associated with the life cycle of Monarch butterfly.
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Life Cycle of a Butterfly

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students illustrate a life cycle. In this butterfly lesson, students watch the video The Very Hungry Caterpillar and discuss the life cycle of a butterfly. Students illustrate the stages.
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Butterflies in the Garden

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners estimate the population of a butterfly ecosystem and create a chart and graph based on information they find.
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Photographs of Life Cycle of a Butterfly

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this science worksheet, students look at the large color photographs and read simple captions which show the life cycle of a butterfly.
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Flight of the Painted Ladies

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the life cycle of the Painted Lady Butterfly. They set up cameras near a butterfly culture. They create an iPhoto photo book to document and journal their observations of the metamorphosis. Students produce a narrated...
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Leo's Colorful Story

For Teachers K - 3rd
Motivate your learners with this lesson plan about the Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly. They listen to a story about the butterfly and then follow directions to color pictures. This is a simple, but effective lesson plan with all the...
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La mariposa

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Read Angela Royston's Ciclo de vida de la mariposa! You can show your class pictures of different butterflies that live in Mexico or Spain, or have your learners conduct puppet shows with caterpillars and butterflies. How does a...
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Science Matters

Lotusland

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
It's time for a field trip! Scholars take their new-found knowledge of adaptations and seed dispersal on a field trip to a local botanical garden. They gain an up-close look at how ecological interdependence works in a distinct...
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Out and About

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Field guides are a like a window into an ecosystem. Young scientists collaborate to create their own field guides by recording observations from a local ecosystem. Ideally, they collect information over time to create a more complete...
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Butterflies

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students view the four stages in the growth of a butterfly. They are told that once a caterpillar hatches, its skin can't grow fast enough to make room for all its growth. Students are asked if they have seen a caterpillar? They are...
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Conservation in Small Spaces: Conservation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils define conservation, identify actions that conserve habitat and those that reduce habitat, and generate ideas about how one can practice conservation in everyday life.
Interactive
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North American Butterflies and Moths of Fields, Meadows, and Fencerows

For Students 5th - 8th
In this North American butterflies and moths worksheet, learners click on the links in the questions about North American butterflies and moths of fields, meadows, and fencerows to find the answers to the questions and then come back and...
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Butterflies!

For Students 1st - 4th
In this butterfly cut-out worksheet, students cut out circles that contain the four stages of a butterfly's life and glue them on the wings of the butterfly on the worksheet. Students are instructed to look at a butterfly's life stages...
Organizer
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Butterflies A-Flutter

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this butterfly worksheet, students read about butterflies, then complete a graphic organizer, drawing pictures of 2 different butterflies, using a table of "stay-safe" butterfly tricks to help complete the chart. 
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Creating Hope: Making Butterfly Stamps

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students create foam ink stamps.  In this Holocaust lesson, students discover the history of the Holocaust and why butterflies represented a symbol of hope during those times.  Students use BalsaFoam to carve out a butterfly...
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Narration about the Mirabal Sisters

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students research the lives of the Mirabel sisters, complete related graphic organizers, and watch the movie, "In the Time of the Butterflies." They write a narrative essay about one event in the Mirabel sisters' lives.
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The Monarch Watch

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Young scholars collect and examine the life cycle of monarch butterflies. They also tag butterflies and release them as part of a nation-wide project to study monarch butterfly migration.
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Monarch Migration

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly. They experiment with various tools to simulate the mouth parts of insects, conduct research, record their observations of butterflies hatching, write a play, complete...
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All About Bugs

For Teachers K
Students read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and practice the days of the week. In groups, they create a puppet show, design cards of the "days of the week," draw their favorite part of the story, create a visual representation of each...
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Nature Oriented Kindness Projects

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students complete various nature activities where they work together to create a butterfly garden, plant flowers, learn about nature survival, and more. In this nature lesson plan, students work together in groups and display kindness...
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Worksheet 5. Which sentence doesn't belong?

For Students 4th - 6th
Although this instructional activity claims to focus on expressing future time, it seems that it really focuses on preposition and word choice. Six multiple-choice questions are presented here; your learner must select which sentence...
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The Life Cycle of the Butterfly

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine the life of a butterfly. They write a biography from the point of view of a caterpillar using new vocabulary. They use magnifying glasses to examine butterflies and caterpillars.