Butterflies - Links
Websites
http://insectlore.com
http://www.insectlore.com/xlorepedia_stuff/butterflies.html
http://www.insectlore.com/xlorepedia_stuff/monarch.html
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/
Label the parts of various insects (one that flies and one that crawls)
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/printouts.shtml
http://www.learningpage.com/free_pages/galleries/insects.html
To download this month’s special Creepy Crawlies collection, visit:
http://www.learningpage.com/free_pages/home/spring_fun.html
www.milkweedcafe.com - It has lots of fun games and activities http://www.milkweedcafe.com/ClubCathome.htm see ‘Free Butterfly Activity Kit to Download & Print’ [pdf, 1.08MB]
http://www.milkweedcafe.com/fascfacts.html
http://www.milkweedcafe.com/gardenplantlists.htm
http://www.milkweedcafe.com/microscope.htm
http://insected.arizona.edu/bflyinfo.htm »
http://www.allabery.com/courses/webquest/harper/index.html - webquest
http://www.edhelper.com/AnimalReadingComprehension_75_1.html
http://mpin.nbii.org/insects/kidsbutterfly/ - colouring pages, life cycle
http://kecirohomeschool.com/butterflypage.htm - games, activities, lifecycle links
http://ishoptoday.com/ishop_free.htm has a free unit on Butterflies and Moths [7-10yo]. It is a good example as to what the units look like from http://www.schoolexpress.com
http://www.theteacherscorner.net/thematicunits/insect3.htm
http://www.ebookdestination.com/estore/product/TCR2372 - free teacher sample (Teacher Created Materials), including ‘Very Hungry Caterpillar’ outline. Not all learning will be on paper in the lapbook.
http://www.coe.iup.edu/worldofkindergarten/I/instac.html this lists lots of insect activities that could be applied to a lapbook – wealth of info on various topics!
http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/KSD/GR/curriculum/4th/butterflies.htm
Lesson Titles could be: 1. Introduction to Butterflies 2. Life Cycle 3. Diet 4. Pollination 5. Habitat and Migration 6. Defense Mechanisms 7. Butterfly or Moth? 8. Conservation
CONCEPT IDEAS
DESCRIBE
Life Cycle
http://www.geocities.com/wyllz/id177.htm - photos
This site has a wheel book for polar animals and another for the life cycle of a butterfly, a frog, and a hatching egg. Circle book for butterfly at:
http://www.kizclub.com/animalcrafts.html - Look under life cycle p3
At www.windmill.net.au search code AJ12368 AJ12367 or do a search on frog life cycle & butterfly life cycle. Click on red camera for a photo.
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/butterfly/index.html - activity helps to illustrate life cycle, good graphic. Could also use ‘inch square’ pages with a butterfly.
www.learningpage.com - Creepy Crawlies worksheets – butterfly life cycle worksheet. Free membership. Cockroach story includes butterflies/insects.
http://www.learningpage.com/pages/menu_wkshts/plans_insects.html
Camouflage …
Be intrigued by insect’s abilities to blend in with nature, or use their appearance to intimidate predators, like the spots on a moth’s wings appear to be eyes, etc.
http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/teacher/butterflies/index.htm http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/teacher/butterflies/print.htm - activity sheet
What makes an insect different than an arachnid or true bug. Contrast/ compare. Venn diagram.
BIG PICTURE
Food Chain …
http://insected.arizona.edu/lesson_07/default.htm - nutrition
How insects stack up on the food chain, and where the world would be without them.
What eats Insects vs. What Insects eat - could do a lift the flap with pictures of various insects and things they eat vs. pictures of insects and animals that eat them
Pollination …
Where would the flowers be without their insect friends.
HABITAT & DISTRIBUTION
http://www.enature.com/backyardwildlife/butterfly/about_butterflies.asp
http://www.enature.com/backyardwildlife/butterfly/butterfly_garden_home.asp - USA map
http://www.enature.com/backyardwildlife/butterfly/butterfly_cal.asp - California
http://www.enature.com/fieldguide/showSpeciesRECNUM.asp?RECNUM=bu0014 - monarch
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/alienempire/voyagers.html - Monarch migration
Tracking …
Follow the migration patterns of the Monarch Butterfly. There are sites you can read about online, students tag the butterflies and they go all the way down to South America from up North. Map of U.S. (or World) and color according to where certain insects are found.
ETC…
Edibles …
Recipes for making bugs, eating bugs, and feeding bugs would be fun.
Inspiration Spot
- use imagination – will poetry or creative writing come from here? a shape story? a picture? a song? remind you of another story?
www.readwritethink.com - heaps!! Try a Diamante poem.
Make an insect poem and practice handwriting/creative writing:
http://www.nlsd.ab.ca/schools/veram/cyberbug/bug_poems.htm
The music plays in the background while my 6 year old daughter flutters around in her butterfly wings being the Sugar Plum Fairy.
Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs
http://www.billybear4kids.com/butterfly/flutter-fun.html - craft, jigsaw, puzzles, font, etc
Make caterpillars using the bottom of egg cartons.
Is this true? Butterflies taste with their feet.
http://search.yahooligans.com/search/ligans?p=butterfly%20insects - just in case you haven’t got a zillion bits already.
THE BUTTERFLY STORY
A story about the wisdom of suffering.
A man found a butterfly cocoon. One day a small opening appeared and he sat and watched the butterfly as it struggled for several hours to force its body through the little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared that it had gotten as far as it could.
The man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped of the remaining bit of cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily but it had a swollen body and small, shrivelled wings. The man expected that at any moment the wings would expand and be able to support the body, but this never happened.
The butterfly spent its whole life crawling around with a swollen body unable to fly. The restricting cocoon and the struggle required to get through the tiny opening were needed to force fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight when it achieved freedom.
Sometimes struggles are just what we need in life. If we went through life without obstacles, it would cripple us spiritually. We would not be as strong as we could have been. And we would never fly.
- © collated by Johanna Whittaker, Hamilton, NZ, 2005.
Ideas from web searches and various webgroups, eg. Yahoo Lapbooking.
