Instructional Video
SciShow

Sci Show Kids: How a Caterpillar Becomes a Butterfly

5th - 8th
Learn the four stages the caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly. [3:57]
Instructional Video
SciShow

Sci Show Kids: Fireflies: Nature's Baffling Blinkers

5th - 8th
This video explains how fireflies are actually beetles! Also learn about the metamorphosis the fireflies go through as well as what gives them the ability to be bioluminescence. [4:22]
Instructional Video
Sea Studios Foundation

Shape of Life: Arthropods: Dragonfly Metamorphosis

9th - 10th
See a dragonfly's metamorphosis with this video. Watch a dragonfly larva transform into a winged adult. [2:46]
Instructional Video
Other

It's Aum Sum Time: Life Cycle of a Butterfly

2nd - 4th
Our topic for today is Life Cycle of a Butterfly. A butterfly lays eggs on the leaves of a plant. These eggs hatch and young ones called larvae or caterpillars come out of the eggs. The caterpillar starts feeding on the leaves and starts...
Instructional Video
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Board Game

1st
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]
Instructional Video
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Physicalizing a Thinking Chart

1st - 2nd
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]
Instructional Video
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Tableau / Human Paragraph

1st - 2nd
In this video, students perform tableaux of the life cycles of a butterfly and then a frog while a classmate announces the stages they are demonstrating. [3:02]