Caterpillars to Butterflies

Butterflies are fascinating! Their development is an intriguing example of natural life cycles. Read a book about butterflies to your learners (several are recommended), and focus on the term life cycle as you explain stages animals go...

Here's a fabulous lesson on the life cycle of a butterfly. Youngsters are able to identify and understand the four stages of life. They construct models of a caterpillar and write a sequence story about the life of a butterfly. This...

How does gravity affect the life cycle of a butterfly? Learn first-hand what types of investigations astronauts perform in space by following along with one of NASA's experiments. Create butterfly habitats in the classroom with specific...

Focused little scientists will flitter their arms back and forth across the room with excitement as they learn the life cycle of a butterfly and how living things grow and change over time.

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...

Why did the butterfly flutter by? To lay some eggs and restart the life cycle! This adorable application can be used from kindergarten through fifth grade to learn details of each stage of the Lepidopteran lifecycle: egg, caterpillar,...

Students draw the life cycle of a butterfly. For this life cycle lesson plan, students read about and discuss the life cycle and then draw what they have learned. 

All living things grow and change throughout their lives, but few as dramatically as the monarch butterfly. Explore the interesting life cycle of this insect as children collect caterpillars, create habitats, and observe the incredible...

Read Arabella Miller's Tiny Caterpillar and Guess Who Changes to learn about butterflies. Youngster will participate in cross curricular activities to learn about the butterfly life cycle. Many resource links are included.

Create colorful butterfly models that display the stages in a butterfly's life with young learners. They will identify the stages in a butterfly's life cycle. Then they will create a butterfly model, arranging the stages of a butterfly's...