1. Topic-
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| Life Cycle of the Butterfly |
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2. Content-
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| Life cycle, birth, egg, larva, metamorphosis, pupa, molting, cocoon. |
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3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
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1. Students will listen to the story "A Very Hungry Caterpillar".
2.Students will create a vocabulary flip book to include in their
Life Cycle Portfolio. |
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4. Objectives-
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1. Students will understand life cycle of a butterfly.
2. Students will be able to describe life cycle/stages of a butterfly
verbally and in written
form.
3. Students will have knowledge of lesson related vocabulary, metamorphosis,
pupa, larva,
chrysalis, etc. |
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5. Materials and Aids-
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-"A Very Hungry Caterpillar"� by Eric Carle
-Activity work sheets- Butterfly Life Cycle
-Markers and pencils
-Paper
-List of vocabulary words with the definitions
-Printed resources on the lifecycle of several insects. |
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6. Procedures/Methods-
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A. Introduction-
1. Ask about observed caterpillars, chrysalis,
butterflies, butterfly habitat, butterfly season, butterfly color,
butterfly size, etc.
2. Introduce terms metamorphosis, larva, pupa, and chrysalis. |
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B. Development-
| Before you start reading, show your students the cover page and
the first page of the book. Ask them if they can guess what is the
round white ball on the leaf? Read "A Very Hungry Caterpillar"�
by Eric Carle. As you read, ask your students if they have noticed
caterpillars during the summer in their backyard. Caterpillars eat
a lot of leafs. Ask students if they have ever noticed what leaves
look like once caterpillars are done eating them? What happened on
Saturday after the very hungry caterpillar ate all kinds of food?
Ask students if they ever had a stomach ache after eating too much
food? Ask students to guess what will the caterpillar turn into after
he comes out of his cocoon. Show students how to create a flip book. |
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C. Practice-
1. As a class, put the first word/stage in the flip book, include
pictures and description of stage.
2. Discuss further questions that students thought of. |
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D. Independent Practice-
1. Students will finish their flip books.
2. Hand out Butterfly Life Cycle worksheets and have students connect,
label, and color butterfly life stages. |
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E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction)-
1.Students with writing difficulty will have their words pre-written
in their flip book.
2. If needed, students will be permitted to use hand out for reference
of pictures and stages. |
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F. Checking for understanding-
1. Students will write and illustrate a story about butterfly life
cycle (metamorphosis) in their journals.
2. Students will finish flip book independently. |
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G. Closure-
| Ask what we learned about today |
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7. Evaluation-
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1.Quiz on life cycle of a butterfly.
2. Unit test on life cycles. |
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8. Teacher Reflection-
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What did the students seem to have difficulty with?
What could be done differently or added to help students with understanding? |
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