Curated OER
Honey Bees - Life Cycle
Bees are the best! Learn about the life cycle of honey bees, their history, and how important they are to our environment. A professional honey bee keeper describes the metamorphosis, hive construction, and life cycle of the bee. A very...
Curated OER
Butterfly Metamorphosis
Click on this video and you'll get to see the life cycle of a butterfly. Each of the four stages are shown in real-time; as a butterfly lays its eggs, caterpillars emerge from the eggs. The caterpillar cocoons itself and then changes...
Curated OER
Ladybug Beetle Larvae Metamorphosis
The quality of this video is good, but the content is slightly lacking. To the escalating melody of a violin, you'll experience the pupa stage of an emergent ladybug. It's interesting but neglects to include any of the other stages in...
Curated OER
Beetle Pupa Metamorphoses Into Adulthood
View a beetle wiggle out of its pupa shell into its full adult form. This clip includes good narration alongside clear description of the action taking place. It's not a pretty video but shows a vital part of the life cycle.
Curated OER
Dragonfly Metamorphosis
Nothing is stranger and more fascinating than witnessing the emergence of an insect. Watch as a dragonfly breaks free from its hardened chrysalis and takes flight. Kids are sure to find this clip very interesting.
PBS
Pbs: Japan's Secret Garden, Animal Transformations
Japan's Secret Garden presents 5 video clips of different animal transformations & metamorphoses.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Metamorphosis: How Frogs, Dragonfiles & Butterflies Grow
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]
SciShow
Sci Show Kids: How a Caterpillar Becomes a Butterfly
Learn the four stages the caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly. [3:57]
SciShow
Sci Show Kids: Fireflies: Nature's Baffling Blinkers
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]
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Arthropods: Dragonfly Metamorphosis
See a dragonfly's metamorphosis with this video. Watch a dragonfly larva transform into a winged adult. [2:46]
Other
It's Aum Sum Time: Life Cycle of a Butterfly
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...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Board Game
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]
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Physicalizing a Thinking Chart
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]
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Tableau / Human Paragraph
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]