- Author:
- Helena Day
- Subject:
- Creativity and Innovation, Visual Arts, Language, Grammar, and Vocabulary, Literature, Reading Foundation Skills, Writing, Life Science
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Level:
- Lower Primary
- Grade:
- K, 1, 2
- Tags:
- License:
- Creative Commons Attribution
- Language:
- English
- Media Formats:
- Audio, Downloadable docs, eBook, Interactive, Video
Butterfly KWL
Beautiful Butterfly
Butterfly Book List
Butterfly Journal
Butterfly Life Cycle Diagram
Google Kids
isearch
Kids InfoBits
Life Cycle of a Butterfly
National Geographic Kids
Pattern Block Butterfly
Waiting for Wings (Bookflix)
Which Ones Which
World Book Kids
From Caterpillar to Butterfly
Overview
Blended learning lesson plans for primary aged students to investigate butterflies and the butterfly life cycle. Great to use during small group/ guided reading time.
Introduction
Introduce the butterfly unit of study by filling out a class KWL chart. You may choose to do this on chart paper or use this digital version.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11tJJFeOaf9dIqbBllkk6MFsznodTfWsaIgxuWKDx-QE/edit?usp=sharing
The learning and research tasks that follow were designed to be independently completed. However, you may choose to complete them as a large group, small groups or independently depending on skill level of students.
What do you already KNOW about butterflies?
What do you WONDER or WANT to learn about butterflies?
With your friends and teacher help fill out the KWL chart.
Find Books/Resources
Once students have created a list of books and resources they are interested in from your schools library, work with your librarian to collect the books and resources for your students to use.
1. Use the iSearch Widgit in Google Classroom to search our school library for a book or resource about butterflies.
2. Add your name and the name of the resource you found to our class list.
3. This list will be turned in to our librarian and the resources will be checked out to our class.
Watch
Watch Waiting for Wings and complete activities.
Explore
Check out the following resources from Explora and TeacherTub:
Research
Use the following links to research butterflies on your own:
Kids InfoBits https://infohio.org/document-library/item/kids-infobits?passthru=Y
Google Kids https://www.safesearchkids.com/google-kids/#.XQ18qFNKhE5
National Geographic Kids: https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/
World Book Kids: https://infohio.org/resources/item/world-book-kidsrld
Butterfly Life Cycle
Complete the Butterfly Life Cycle Diagram
Drag and drop the images.
Connect them in the proper order with “Curved Connector” lines to create a diagram of the life cycle of a butterfly.
Put an arrow on one end of the connectors to show the correct sequence.
Butterfly Journal
Complete the Butterfly Journal Entry.
1. Butterflies are...
2. Butterflies can...
3. Butterflies have...
4. Add a picture of a butterfly
Create a Pattern Block Butterfly
Create your own butterfly using the Pattern Blocks.
Challenge yourself and make your butterfly’s wings symmetrical.
Wrap Up
At the end of the butterfly study revist the KWL chart that was created at the beginning of the unit. Go over the student created questions in the Wonder section and see if they were answered. Place answers to the questions in the Learned section. Also add any other facts that the students found interesting and learned through their research.
Think about what you learned about butterflies.
With your friends and teacher revist the KWL chart.
Did you find the answers to the questions you had?
What other interesting things did you learn?