Lesson Planet
Search educational resources
  • Sign In Try It Free
  • AI Teacher Tools
    • Discover Resources Search reviewed educational resources by keyword, subject, grade, type, and more
    • Curriculum Manager (My Content) Manage saved and uploaded resources and folders To Access the Curriculum Manager Sign In or Join Now
    • Browse Resource Directory Browse educational resources by subject and topic
    • Curriculum Calendar Explore curriculum resources by date
    • Lesson Planning Articles Timely and inspiring teaching ideas that you can apply in your classroom
    • Our Story
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Testimonials
    • Contact Us
  • Pricing
  • School Access
    • Your school or district can sign up for Lesson Planet — with no cost to teachers
      Learn More
  • Sign In
  • Try It Free

Hi, what do you want to do?

Create a lesson plan
Create a lesson plan
Generate resources with 80+ AI teacher tools
Generate resources with 80+ AI teacher tools
Search 200,000 instructional videos
Search 200,000 instructional videos
Find a teaching resource
Find a teaching resource
Butterfly Quest InteractiveButterfly Quest Interactive
Publisher
Curated OER
Curator Rating
Educator Rating
Not yet Rated
Interactive

Butterfly Quest

Curated and Reviewed by Lesson Planet

This worksheet calls for young scientists to create a diagram of a butterfly's life cycle and then answer a series of short-answer and fill-in -the-blank questions. The questions are broken down by the stages of a butterfly's life cycle: egg stage, larva stage, pupa stage, and adult stage. Also, this can be used as an interactive worksheet with a link for each section of questions that directs your learners to a short reading about that stage in a butterfly's life cycle.

64 Views 76 Downloads
Concepts

reading comprehension, butterflies, life cycles

Additional Tags

butterflies, butterfly, comprehension questions, life cycle, alternative assessment, interactive, online, insects, science
Show More Show Less

Resource Details

Grade
3rd - 7th
Subjects
Science
7 more...
Resource Types
Interactives
7 more...
Audience
For Teacher Use

See similar resources:

Lesson Plan

Creating a Butterfly Garden and Habitat

PBS
This complete set of instructions for creating your very own butterfly garden and habitat is so cool! With some seeds and the handy resources in this activity, you and your class will be able to determine which type of habitat is best...
1st - 4th Science
Lesson Plan

The Butterfly or Adult

PBS
Now that your class knows about the life cycle of a butterfly, it's time to discuss how an adult butterfly survives in the wild. The class diagrams and labels the parts of a butterfly, discusses how butterflies survive, and then make a...
K - 3rd Science
Worksheet

The Life Cycle

K5 Learning
Studying plant, animal, or insect life cycles? Pair a science unit with a reading comprehension worksheet on life cycles. The passage touches briefly on butterfly, plant, frog, and dog life cycles before prompting readers to answer six...
3rd English Language Arts
CCSS: Adaptable
Lesson Plan

Conservation in Small Spaces: Butterfly Life cycles

Curated OER
Learners discuss ways that butterflies and moths change during their lifecycles, observe caterpillars, and explore how their different body parts work.
3rd - 5th Science
Activity

Life Cycle of a Penguin

Teachit
Celebrate the circle of life with this fun hands-on activity. After cutting out, gluing together, and assembling this visual model, students are able to spin through and observe the life cycle of penguins.
Pre-K - 4th Science
Lesson Plan

Caterpillar to Butterfly

Curated OER
Students draw the life cycle of a butterfly. In this life cycle lesson plan, students read about and discuss the life cycle and then draw what they have learned. 
K - 3rd Science
Lesson Plan

Butterflies, Butterflies, Butterflies

Curated OER
Transform your class into a butterfly museum! Research different types of butterflies, their habitat, and life cycle. Interactive components such as PowerPoint presentations, Claymation movies, and webpages add pizzaz to the museum...
3rd - 5th Science
Lesson Plan

Using the Carbon Cycle Interactive Game in the Classroom

Curated OER
An online reading and interactive game bring the path of a carbon molecule to life for your earth science explorers! As an assessment, learners can map out or write about their experience in the carbon cycle. Thoroughly written...
4th - 9th Science
Lesson Plan

Life Cycles

Teach Engineering
Breathe some life into product design. Pupils learn about the stages of product creation, use, and disposal—sometimes called a cradle-to-grave assessment. They see how this cycle relates to the life cycle of organisms.
6th - 8th Science
Lesson Plan

Can't Wait - Gotta Migrate:The Monarch Butterfly

Curated OER
Middle schoolers study the migratory behavior of the monarch butterfly and to carefully develop a scientific method for answering one question concerning their behavior. They perform many meaningful tasks which help them explain the...
6th - 8th Science
Try It Free
© 1999-2026 Learning Explorer, Inc.
Teacher Lesson Plans, Worksheets and Resources

Sign up for the Lesson Planet Monthly Newsletter

Open Educational Resources (OER)

  • Health
  • Language Arts
  • Languages
  • Math
  • Physical Education
  • Science
  • Social Studies
  • Special Education
  • Visual and Performing Arts
View All Lesson Plans

Discover Resources

  • Our Review Process
  • How it Works
  • How to Search
  • Create a Collection

Manage Curriculum

  • Edit a Collection
  • Assign to Students
  • Manage My Content
Contact Us Site Map Privacy Policy Terms of Use