Lesson Title: Butterfly Unit
Topic/Focus Area: Metamorphisis

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Subject(s): Science

Grade Level(s): 2

Name: Carmen Canalez
Taught: MultipleSubject
Phone:
E-mail: tlw14@icoe.k12.ca.us
School: Waggoner (T.L.) Elementary

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Lesson Overview



Standards

Subject : Science
Grade : Two
Strand : Life Sciences
Substrand 2 : Plants and animals have predictable life cycles. As a basis for understanding this concept:

Standard:
2a
Students know that organisms reproduce offspring of their own kind and that the offspring resemble their parents and one another.

 
 
Standard:
2b
Students know the sequential stages of life cycles are different for different animals, such as butterflies, frogs, and mice.

Student Learning Objectives


Activities

  1. Teacher will do research and find 5 to 7 sites that include information about the Painted Lady Butterfly.

    2. Children will search in those sites and find clip art and graphics for the different stages of the butterfly's life cycle.

    3. Students will also take pictures of the butterfly with a digital camera as a caterpillar, chrysalis and adult butterfly. They will learn to download the images to the computer and print the pictures.

    4. Students will use the word processor to add their observations to their science logs.

    5. At the end of the unit, students will do a presentation of their completed Science log.

    6. Teacher will then in turn do a power point presentation including all the work done for the butterfly unit.

Resources

Content Resources (books, articles, etc.)
VIPS Material: Includes the caterpillars, food, containers, science logs, workbook copies.

Books:
Born To Be A Butterfly ( DK Eyewitness Media)

Web Resources
http://www.discovery.school.com/
http://www.dk.com/
http://scolastic.com/activities/bugs/index.com/

cd-rom: Butterflies & Moths (DK Eyewitness)

http://www.zoodinosaurs.com/subjects/butterfly/activities/ (www.zoodinosaurs.com)


Hardware/Software Resources (computers, CD-ROMs, TV, VCR, etc.)
Computers,TV, VCR, overhead projector, digital camera and printer.

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