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Lesson Plan
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Watch Your Step!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine the physical characteristics of insects and spiders. Students research the vaious ways in which insects move. They then observe and record the metamorposis of one of more insects. They complete the lesson by...
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Lesson Plan
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Monarch Egg

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the stages of the Monarch butterfly and its life cycle.  In this butterfly life cycle lesson, students discuss when, where, and how the Monarch butterflies lay their eggs.  After discussion, students participate in...
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Lesson Plan
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Beautiful Butterflies

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study the life cycle of the butterfly through this series of activities. They create projects, play games, and observe butterfly characteristic that contribute to their survival.
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Organizer
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Caterpillar to Butterfly

For Students K - 1st
In this life cycle worksheet, students will color and cut out five pictures of the butterfly life cycle and glue them in the proper sequence.
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Lesson Plan
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Life Cycle of Butterfly

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate life cycles of insects by writing a story.  In this butterfly life lesson, 2nd graders create a checklist of the many steps a caterpillar takes before growing wings and flying.  Students utilize creative...
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Interactive
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Plant Life Cycle

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this exploring the processes from seed to reproduction of a plant online interactive worksheet, students read a passage explaining the plant life cycle and answer multiple choice questions about what they read. Students choose 8 answers.
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Unit Plan
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Life Cycles

For Teachers 2nd
Students explore the life cycle of living things through the eight lessons of this unit. The butterfly, frog, chicken, and plant are inspected and form the basis of the work done in this unit.
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Lesson Plan
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Flutter By!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify and list the four main stages of a life cycle of a butterfly. In this butterfly lesson plan, 2nd graders use the internet and videos to learn about the life cycle and be able to list them on their own.
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Lesson Planet Article
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Seasonal Science: Spring Life Science Activities

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Spring into science with these great lesson ideas involving butterflies.
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Organizer
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Which Baby Animals Looks Unlike Their Parents?

For Students K - 2nd
Learners review the steps of the butterfly life cycle to show how the babies are different from the parents. This learning exercise is a graphic organizer with four fill in the blank statements.
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Lesson Plan
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Life Cycles

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore life cycles. They examine pictures of the various stages of life cycles and put them in the correct order. Students match pictures of eggs to the correct parents. They discuss the importance of knowing the life...
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Lesson Plan
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Flight of the Painted Ladies

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the life cycle of the Painted Lady Butterfly. They set up cameras near a butterfly culture. They create an iPhoto photo book to document and journal their observations of the metamorphosis. Students produce a narrated...
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Lesson Plan
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The Circle of Life

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine how the different organisms living in an ecosystem affect one another. In groups, they research a specific ecosystem and present their findings to the class based on the type of organisms found in it. To end the...
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Lesson Plan
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Butterflies

For Teachers K
Students study and create a pictorial report on the life cycle of butterflies. They explore the internet using the "hot list" handout to answers question on the life cycle of butterflies. They present their pictorial reports to the rest...
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Lesson Plan
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Monarch Chrysalis

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students examine the last stage of the monarch butterfly. In 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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Lesson Plan
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Growing Up in the Atlantic Rainforest

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this science worksheet, pupils read and study pictures about the life cycle of a butterfly. Students then answer 10 questions about the passage. There is a word bank.
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Flutter Farm

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the life cycle of butterflies. In this butterfly lesson, 5th graders use their research skills to create a PowerPoint presentation featuring the butterflies of North America.
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Lesson Plan
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Animals

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders define and describe the characteristics of a mammal and a mammal's importance to man. They also describe the life cycle of a frog and compare and contrast a larva and an adult frog. Finally, 2nd graders study and explain...
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Lesson Plan
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Butterflies

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students will explore the life cycle of the Painted Lady butterfly by raising their own. They will incorporate math, science, and language arts as they graph, pattern, journal, observe, and artistically create.
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Lesson Plan
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Insects

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students study the characteristics and basic needs of insects. They compare and describe similarities among insects. They examine the body structure, covering, and movement of insects and also, examine insect life cycles in this unit of...
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Worksheet
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Butterflies

For Students 4th - 6th
For this science related worksheet, students complete a word search puzzle on the life cycle of butterflies by locating twelve key terms.
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Lesson Plan
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Classroom Animals & Pets - Insects & Company - Butterflies

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students examine the life cycle of a butterfly. They place caterpillars in a cage and observe their change to a butterfly. Students discover how much a caterpillar eats and annotate growth information.
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Unit Plan
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Interesting Insects

For Teachers 2nd
Students discover the characteristics of insects. They explore insects through cooperative learning, group projects, hands on activities, and poetry. They gain knowledge of insect life cycles, habitat, and physical characteristics.
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Lesson Plan
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Flutter By, Butterfly!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners examine the basic characteristics of butterflies. They view a butterfly PowerPoint presentation, complete various labelling activity sheets, explore websites, and design a poster that includes facts and illustrations to be used...