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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Gardens: Butterfly Gardening Fact Sheet [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This fact sheet provides a comprehensive overview of butterfly gardening. Learn about the life cycle of the butterfly, what plants attract them and what we can do as a society to preserve these marvelous habitats.
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Interactive
Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Butterfly Life Cycle: Butterfly Worksheets and Games

For Students 3rd - 8th
Expand your butterfly knowledge with these interactive worksheets and games.
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Other

Billy Bear4 Kids: Butterflies and Bugs

For Students Pre-K - 1st
BillyBear4Kids.com is a great butterfly resource with links to butterfly cut-outs, flashcards, bookmarks, crafts, online games, and more. Scroll down for reproducibles.
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eBook
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tar Heel Reader: Where Do Butterflies Come From

For Students K - 1st
A digital version of a butterfly life cycle picture book for young readers.
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Handout
A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Butterfly (Papilionoidea)

For Students 9th - 10th
Illustrated entry describes the Butterfly with details about its habitat, physical characteristics, diet, life cycle, and other facts.
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Handout
Saint Louis Zoo

Saint Louis Zoo: Monarch Butterfly

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn animal facts about the appearance, behavior, life cycle, and diet of the monarch butterfly.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Butterfly Life Cycle

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn and review the life cycle of a butterfly, with slides for taking notes. Includes a link to a great YouTube Video!
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Butterfly Tales

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this lesson, students will recall events from a story and describe the life cycle of the butterfly. Students will use their imaginations, writing, and computer skills to create a butterfly tale. They will discuss and integrate...
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Life Cycles With Butterflies

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
This site is a lesson plan for teachers. It is a lesson to study the life cycles of a butterfly. It explains how the students would find caterpillars and build a home for them.
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Other

Vida: Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use these images to study the monarch butterfly's life cycle.
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Website
Other

Cocoon: Articles and Butterfly Life Cycle

For Students 1st - 8th
A collection of cocoon and butterfly articles as well as stories, cartoons, coloring, and animations.
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Other

Fermilab Flora and Fauna Virtual Exhibit: The Monarch Butterfly and Milkweed

For Students 9th - 10th
This site traces the life cycle of the monarch butterfly and contains links for more in depth study of the terms presented.
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Handout
PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Monarch Butterfly

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out this educational resource to learn more about the monarch butterfly. This site features information ranging from life cycle, range, habitat, behavior, characteristics and diet.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Changes in a Monarch's Life Cycle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars will observe and work with monarch larva. Once they have experienced the life cycle we will go outside to observe milkweed and identify the stages of monarch that are seen on the plant. Back inside the classroom we will...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Butterfly, Butterfly: Teaching Vocabulary

For Teachers K Standards
This 2-day lesson plan engages students in determining and clarifying the meanings of unknown words and phrases found in Jenny Feely's nonfiction book, Butterfly. Students will exemplify their learning of new vocabulary by labeling what...
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Other

Academy of Natural Science: Butterfly Life Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
With this resource, learners examine the four stages of butterfly metamorphosis in this succinct presentation from the Academy of Natural Sciences in Pennsylvania.
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Handout
The Field Museum

Field Museum: Butterfly and Moth Life Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on the stages of development of butterflies and moths accompanied by pictures for further enhancement.
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Handout
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Life Cycle of a Butterfly

For Students 2nd - 8th
Gives a basic explanation of the four stages in the life cycle of a butterfly.
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Graphic
Science Museum of Minnesota

Science Museum of Minnesota: Butterfly Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Handout
Lone Star Junction

Lone Star Junction: The Texas State Insect: Monarch Butterfly

For Students 3rd - 5th
Some facts about the monarch butterfly, which is the state insect of Texas.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Butterfly Life Cycles

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This unit introduces students to a study of life cycles by having them examine the life cycle of a butterfly. The students will observe, record and describe the changes in caterpillars as they become butterflies. The teacher will...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Life Stages Cards: Frog, Butterfly, and Dragonfly

For Students Pre-K - 1st
All animals develop and grow over time. The animals in this document undergo one of the most dramatic developmental processes known, metamorphosis. See if you can place the developmental stages in their proper order.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Creepy Caterpillars to Beautiful Butterflies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will explore the life cycle of a butterfly using a website and observations of caterpillar metamorphosis. This lesson will incorporate science, mathematics, language arts, and art.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Life Cycle of a Butterfly

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.

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