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Life Cycle of a Butterfly: Kidspiration
Second graders view a video about butterflies and recall its life cycle. They will also complete a Kidspiration slide show to illustrate the life cycle of a butterfly and study a word list of butterfly vocabulary to include in their...
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Butterfly Lesson Plans
Students study the life cycle of the Monarch Chrysalis. For this butterfly life cycle lesson, students study the monarch butterfly life cycle and focus on the fourth stage of the life cycle. Students draw a picture about the fourth stage...
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Monarch Chrysalis
Students examine the last stage of the monarch butterfly. For this life cycles lesson, students read the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar and study photos of the monarch life cycle. Students illustrate the third stage of the monarch...
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Metamorphosis Magic
Students make different motions for each stage in the butterfly life cycle and plant a garden. In this butterfly life cycle lesson plan, students can take the mini gardens home and discuss how butterflies help gardens.
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Butterfly Baggies
Young scholars create Butterflies out of sandwich baggies in this interesting Art lesson for the early-elementary classroom. The lesson can be connected to a science lesson about butterflies, can be used with other Butterfly art lessons...
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Beautiful Butterflies
Students use coffee filters, pipe cleaners and markers to create butterflies.
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Miracle of Winged Migration
Students explore the life cycle of insects by researching butterflies. In this insect migration lesson, students identify the Monarch butterfly, where they inhabit, and what their migration consists of. Students utilize the Internet to...
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Migration and the Spirits of Life
Learners study the Mexican traditions for the Day of the Dead. In this Mexican traditions instructional activity, students study monarch butterflies and learn about the role that the mariposa plays in the Day of the Dead. Learners learn...
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Painted Balsa-Foam Butterfly
Students research a butterfly and create butterfly art. In this visual arts lesson plan, students choose a specific butterfly to research and create a Balsa-Foam butterfly of the same species. Students use Balsa-Foam, modeling tools, and...
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Flip Camera Lesson: Louisiana Animal Adaptations
Students research and present information about Louisiana animal adaptations. In this animal adaptation and video camera lesson plan, students choose an animal from a teacher prepared list. They use the Internet to find five adaptations...
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Tin Can Telephone
Students make telephones. In this visual arts instructional activity, students follow the provided steps to create their own tin can telephones.