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Mazes

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this mazes worksheet, students figure out the best way to help a caterpillar on its journey to becoming a moth through a circle maze.
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Cloze Activity: Mini Worlds

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this butterflies, moths, and caterpillars cloze procedure worksheet, students review a brief selection that is missing 10 words and then attempt to fill in each blank with a word they think the author might have used. A word bank is...
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Food to Grow On

For Teachers 1st
First graders observe, predict, and record food consumption and growth of insects through experimentation with caterpillar diets. They relate their findings to their own growth and diet.
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The Life Cycle of the Butterfly

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study the life cycle of a butterfly by observing metamorphosis taking place in a butterfly pavilion. Students illustrate their understandings of the body parts of a caterpillar and butterfly, as well as the life cycle,...
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Butterfly Report

For Students 4th - 6th
In this biology worksheet, students draw or trace an accurate picture of a butterfly. Then they complete the information related to their butterfly's classification and list the habitats where they are likely to be found. Students also...
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Butterfly Life Cycle

For Teachers K
This PowerPoint presents the stages of the butterfly life cycle. Illustrated slides include facts about the eggs, the caterpillar, the chrysalis, and the butterfly. 
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Who Is Eric Carle?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Providing a template for a discussion of Eric Carle and his works, this presentation has empty spaces left specifically for adding pictures and information about this author. This exploration of Carle is only rudimentary, but a novel...
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What Do Monarch Caterpillars Eat?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use the scientific method to discover what monarch caterpillars eat. They observe the caterpillars for 2 minutes at a time and make observations.
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Butterfly and Caterpillar

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students listen to the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and create their own "Very Hungry Caterpillar" book to learn the life cycle of a butterfly.
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Caille The Caterpillar

For Teachers K
Students investigate the six groups of the food pyramid. In this food pyramid lesson, students work in a group to find a pictures of their assigned food group. They put the pictures in the "caterpillars" mouth which is based on the...
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar: A Sequencing Lesson

For Teachers K
Students listen to "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and summarize to story to demonstrate comprehension. They review the days of the week and create their own book.
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"Ca...Ca...Ca...Caterpillar Blending"

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students improve blending skills. They produce many individual short utterances and mouth moves (phonemes) into one long utterance (words) and create their own blending caterpillar. They draw a picture of a caterpillar with three...
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Finding Caterpillars

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine how animals protect themselves from predators and camouflage themselves. They participate in a simulation in which they locate red and green yarn "caterpillars," organize their data, and generate a bar graph using...
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Comprehension Through The Very Hungry Caterpillar

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students sequence seven events from "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by matching the correct event with the day of the week. They recall details from the story as they unscramble words on a worksheet.
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From Caterpillars to Butterflies: Life Cycles

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to a read aloud of the Eric Carle's, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and talk about the life cycle of caterpillars. They draw illustrations of the life cycle and compare it with the life cycle of another familiar...
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Caterpillar Circles

For Students K - 1st
In this shape recognition activity, students trace the circles in the caterpillar and color them each a different color. Students then trace the 6 circles at the bottom of the page.
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The Very Hungry Catepillar

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this The Very Hungry Caterpillar worksheet, students watch a video, name the fruits, complete sentences, listen and write, and more from the story. Students complete 6 tasks total.
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What Does a Monarch Caterpillar Eat?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study what monarch caterpillars eat by solving math problems and reading The Girl Who Loved Caterpillars: A Twelfth-Century Tale from Japan. They analyze why Monarch caterpillars only eat milkweed leaves and solve...
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Investigation: Crazy Caterpillars

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore biology patterns by creating a model insect. In this patterns lesson, 1st graders utilize snap cubes and pattern blocks to recreate their own version of a centipede or caterpillar. Students create their caterpillars...
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Spring Activities

For Students Pre-K - K
For this Spring worksheet, students read a poem about a furry caterpillar. Students color the picture and underline the rhyming words. Students also write the rhyming words and compose their own caterpillar poem.
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Speaking Skills

For Teachers Pre-K
Students listen to The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and use a teacher created puppet for a listening activity.  In this Hungry Caterpillar lesson, students recall the order of events in the story with the puppet and cards of the...
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Milkweed and Monarch Mania

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this milkweed and monarch caterpillar worksheet, learners contrast the milkweed caterpillar with the monarch caterpillar. Students look at a picture of each.
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Organizer
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Caterpillar to Butterfly

For Students K - 1st
In this life cycle learning exercise, students will color and cut out five pictures of the butterfly life cycle and glue them in the proper sequence.
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Bank on It! The Caterpillar

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts worksheet, students examine 10 commonly used words in a word bank. Students use the words to complete a paragraph about a caterpillar as it should appear.

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