A Butterflys Life

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A Butterflys Life

• Butterfly Flutterby
• Delaina Bryan and Lora Drum

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• Introduction
• Information about Butterflies
• Learning Activities
• Games
• Art/Crafts
• Songs and Poems
• Web Quests
• Teacher Resources

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Introduction

• This project is designed to integrate technology
  within a thematic unit on butterflies. Students
  will have the opportunity to explore and learn
  about butterflies through interactive tasks,
  games, and/or arts and crafts.

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Butterfly Information

• What is a Butterfly?
• Characteristics
• Life Cycle
• Habitats

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What is a butterfly?

• Task 1
• Click the highlighted link to find out about
  butterflies and then answer the following
  questions on a separate piece of paper
• How many body parts do butterflies have?
• How many legs do butterflies have?
• How fast can the fastest butterflies fly?

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Characteristics

• Task 2
• Click to see the body parts of a butterfly and
  then click to see another view, and one more
  look.
• Look at the table on this link to explore
  butterflies and moths. Click and print the
  diagram to compare and contrast butterflies with
  moths.

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Characteristics cont

• Task 3
• Click to observe two different butterflies of
  your choice. Print the page on the following
  link to Compare Contrast the two different
  butterflies you chose.

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Butterfly Life Cycle
Click here to find a diagram to print of the life
cycle of the butterfly.
Click here to find a sequencing activity to learn
more about butterflies.
Click here to find a cut and paste activity to
complete.
Click here to find a coloring page for more
information about the life cycle of a Painted
Lady Butterfly.
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Task 4Sequence the life cycle pictures in the
correct order.
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Video

• Task 5
• Click here to watch a video of the process of
  metamorphosis. Be sure to follow the steps
  below. (Note See the teacher if you have
  forgotten your password.)
• Step 1 Click on the video link above.
• Step 2 Click on the segment tab.
• Step 3 Click on the link This video has 3
  segments.
• Step 4 Click on the title Lives of
  Butterflies and Moths segment

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Habitats

• Task 6
• Click here to see where butterflies live in
  North America. Make a list of the butterfly
  families that can be found in North Carolina.
  Hint There are 6 different families.

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Learning Activities

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• Butterfly Symmetry
• Butterfly Life Cycle Book
• Lively Butterflies Mini book
• Graphing Butterfly Favorites
• Tricky Butterfly Hunters

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric
Carle
Task 7
Click on this link to print cards to sequence the
events in the story.
Click on this link to print pictures beginning
with the letter c and a caterpillar body.
Color, cut, and paste the pictures (circles) on
the caterpillars body.
Click on this link to play a word game using
words from the book
Click on this link to print your own take home
version of the book
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Butterfly Symmetry

• Task 8
• All butterflies wings are examples of symmetry.
  Click on this link (click on Process Activity 4)
  to open a pattern to practice symmetry by drawing
  the matching pattern on the blank wing. Then
  click here to design your own butterfly. Make
  sure that both wings are symmetrical.

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Butterfly Book
Task 9 1. Click on each page to the right. 2.
Print a copy of each page. 3. Color the
pictures. 4. Cut out the pages. 5. Staple
together to form book to read and share with
others.

• Cover
• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3
• Page 4

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Cover
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Page 1
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Page 2
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Page 3
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Page 4
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Reading Mini- Book

• Click on the link below to print a mini booklet
  called Lively Butterflies.
• http//www.beginningreading.com/Fun20Book201.ht
  m

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Graphing Butterfly Favorites

• Look at the different kinds (species) of
  butterflies on the following link and write down
  your favorite choice.
• After everyone in the class has voted, we will
  create a graph representing the data collected.

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Tricky Butterfly Hunters

• Read the directions for this activity on this
  link.
• Draw, color, and cut out your own butterfly or
  use a pattern from your teacher.
• Once all students have created a butterfly, the
  class will do the activity linked to this page.

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Fluttering Fun Online Games
Catch the Butterflies Butterfly Jigsaw
Puzzle Bug Bait Drop Drag Puzzle Flutter's
Tic Tac Toe Concentration/Memory Monarch Maze
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Art Crafts

• Pasta Metamorphosis 
• Tissue Paper Butterflies
• Stained Glass Butterflies
• Metamorphosis Butterfly Card
• Butterfly Blob Picture
• Chenille Stem Butterflies
• Where Do Butterflies Come From?

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Songs and Poems

• http//www.dacton.com/moresongs1.html
• http//www.mrsjonesroom.com/songs/butterfly.html
• http//www.mrsjonesroom.com/songs/butterfly2.html

Task 10 Print The Fuzzy Wuzzy Caterpillar poem
and then read it independently to self. Create
movements to go along with each stanza and then
act it out for someone.
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(No Transcript)
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WebQuests

• http//www.dedham.k12.ma.us/webquest/spring2002/lw
  /butterfly_webquest.htm
• http//projects.edtech.sandi.net/brooklyn/butterfl
  ies/
• http//www.myschoolonline.com/page/0,1871,0-120084
  -50-27697,00.html
• http//www.midwayisd.org/etrip/First/Science/butte
  rfly/Butterfly20and20Caterpillar20Webquest.html
  
• http//teacherweb.com/IN/Ststanislaus/butterflywq/
  
• http//www.ga.unc.edu/NCTA/NCTA/WebQuest/StStephen
  s/WebQuest/index.html
• http//www.swlauriersb.qc.ca/english/edservices/pe
  dresources/webquest/caterpillar/caterpillar.htm
• http//aldertrootes.wcpss.net/butterfly/butterfly.
  html
• http//teacherexchange.mde.k12.ms.us/teachnett/cor
  tez.htm
• http//happyvale.sd73.bc.ca/quest20caterpillar.ht
  m

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Teacher Resources

• Websites
• Butterfly Pavilion - http//www.butterflies.org/tc
  hr.cfm?sectiontchr
• The Butterfly Website - http//www.butterflywebsit
  e.com/
• Butterfly Resource Guide http//riverwoods.ces.fau
  .edu/Education/bflyguide.php
• Suggested Childrens Books
• From Caterpillar to Butterfly, by Deborah
  Heiligman, Scholastic Inc., 555 Broadway, New
  York, NY, 10012,  1996.
• A day-to-day description of  observing
  the miracle of metamorphosis.
• Charlie the Caterpillar, by Dom De Luise, Simon
  Schuster,NC., Rockefeller Center, 1230 Avenue of
  the Americas, 10020.
• A delightful tale of a caterpillar's journey
  through the world before he makes his
  chrysalis, and what happens after he emerges as a
  butterfly.
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle,
  Philomel Books, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY,
  1987.
• The ever popular story of a caterpillar's
  voracious appetite during this stage of the life
  cycle.