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Butterfly Life Cycle

Zerrin Oelze

2nd grade

Science

McLean Science & Technology Magnet

Life Science/Program Standard III1.a. All students will observe life cycles of different living things

Live caterpillars to observe the process of metamorphosis. Books on butterflies or caterpillars.

Begin the lesson with introducing the vocabulary of life cycle. Students may move the rectangle to find the definition, then participate in brainstorming other words with the word "cycle" in them. Students may come up to the board to circle the word "cycle" in each word. The remaining slides are self explanatory.

What is a cycle?

Something that goes around and around.

Today we are going to learnabout a life cycle.

Make a list of words that have the word cyclein them.

Circle the word cycle in each word

What is a cycle? Something that goes around and around

Butterfly Life Cycle

Do you know how a butterfly grows?

They start out very tiny and they change a lot.

How does a butterfly begin?

What are these called?

Eggs

What does the egg turn into?

What is this called? A caterpillar.

Do you know the other name for this stage of the butterfly?

Larva

pupa

What does the caterpillar turn into?

What is this called?

A crysalis.

Do you know the other name for this stage of the butterfly?

What does the crysalis turn into?

What is this called?

The adult butterfly

Can you drag the pictures to the correct line to show the order of the butterfly lifecycle? Place the labels under each picture.

Egg

Larva

Crysalis

Adult

1. ________________

2. ______________

3. _________________

4. ________________

Egg

Larva

Crysalis

Adult

1. ________________

2. ______________

3. _________________

4. ________________

Add arrows to show the lifecycle of the butterfly.