Read Works
Read Works: Time to Fly!
[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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Eric Carle Author Study
This resource features an author study of Eric Carle. Students and teachers can gain a deeper understanding into this author's life and work when they visit.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Butterfly Life Cycle: Butterfly Worksheets and Games
Expand your butterfly knowledge with these interactive worksheets and games.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Crafts for Kids
Choose from dozens of simple crafts including activities for the holidays, animal crafts and much more.
Science Museum of Minnesota
Science Museum of Minnesota: Metamorphosis
A very simple, interactive, and informative explanation of things students can do to learn more about butterflies. Elementary appropriate.
Other
The Butterfly Website
The Butterfly Website reveals the world of butterflies with photos, clip art, a butterfly atlas, and related resource links.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Wildlife Journal Jr: Making a Butterfly Garden
Learn how to build a butterfly garden and choose plants that will provide food for caterpillars and butterflies.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Songs and Poems
This site features an extensive list of poems and songs for every event during the school year. Explore the seasons, colors, holidays, and more.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Art Smart
Students will learn about the symbolic meanings associated with various colors. Then students will design a piece of art with colors that are reflective of their personal emotions.
Other
Fermilab Flora and Fauna Virtual Exhibit: The Monarch Butterfly and Milkweed
This site traces the life cycle of the monarch butterfly and contains links for more in depth study of the terms presented.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Butterfly Life Cycle
Students explore how butterflies change and grow throughout their life cycle in this interactive lesson.
Science Museum of Minnesota
Science Museum of Minnesota: Butterfly Collection
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.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Students learn about the life cycle of a butterfly and put the stages of a butterfly's life cycle in order in this SMART whiteboard activity.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Insects
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart describes the basic parts of insects. It also has a matching section.
Unique Australian Animals
Unique Australian Animals: Bogong Moths
This personal page from the Unique Australian Animals offers a nice description of the Bogong Moth along with some very detailed images.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Butterfly
Learn about the appearance, diet, habitat, and other fun facts about this beautiful insect.
The Field Museum
Field Museum: Butterfly and Moth Life Cycle
Information on the stages of development of butterflies and moths accompanied by pictures for further enhancement.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Life Cycle of a Butterfly
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...
Curated OER
Photo of Eric Carle
Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. His best-known work is the familiar "The Very Hungry Caterpillar".
Curated OER
Life Cycle of a Butterfly
This diagram shows the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly.
University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky: Bug Fun
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...
Other
Academy of Natural Science: Butterfly Life Cycle
With this resource, learners examine the four stages of butterfly metamorphosis in this succinct presentation from the Academy of Natural Sciences in Pennsylvania.
Curated OER
Cover of Very Hungry
What do you know about Eric Carle, the author? This Carol Hurst site highlights some interesting facts about this author's life and refers to some of his books.
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