In this video, students sit around a poster board and state stages in the life cycles of a butterfly and then a frog, placing pictures and other elements on the board that represent each stage. [2:44]

In this video, students state facts about frogs and butterflies as they each place themselves in hula hoops laid out to organize the similarities, differences, and commonalities between the two organisms. [2:46]

Students will take a previously created paragraph and edit it to make it better by adding details, definitions, a topic sentence, or a closure to an informational paragraph. Resources include a powerpoint presentation and pictures and videos of the lesson in action.

This 13-minute video discusses how the Owl Butterfly may have gotten the spot on its wings. [Biology playlist: Lesson 5 of 71].

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The learning resource is a guide to a better understanding of butterflies. Some topics discussed are the identification, food, and life cycle of the butterfly. In addition to an information guide the activity has images of butterflies.

Students explore how butterflies change and grow throughout their life cycle in this interactive lesson.

This activity will include the students observing the monarch life cycle inside the classroom, a field experience observing monarch life on a milkweed plant and drawing it, and back in the classroom students will make a pop-up book of the monarch's life cycle with a short description on each page.

This activity is an inquiry and field study based. Students will be trying to observe, document, compare, contrast, and communicate what information they were able to gather. The will use this information to make in inference about the organisms they have found and classify them as either an insect or not an insect.

Resource on the monarch butterfly, which includes migration maps, instructions for tracking and observing migration, and an opportunity to report your sightings. Also provides teacher information and classroom lessons.

All animals develop and grow over time. The animals in this document undergo one of the most dramatic developmental processes known, metamorphosis. See if you can place the developmental stages in their proper order.

All animals develop and grow over time. The animals in this video segment, however, undergo very dramatic changes on their way to adulthood--a developmental process known as metamorphosis. [4:45]

This video segment from NOVA: "The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders" explores the migratorial exploits of monarch butterflies. [4:39]

This is an activity in which students use their senses to describe their garden. This is a guided inquiry lesson.