Curated OER
Life Cycle of a Butterfly
A super cute second grade class tells us all about the life cycle of the butterfly. They read about each stage of the butterfly's life cycle in unison. The choral reading is a little hard to understand but is a great way to engage an...
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: On the Road
Chris and Martin experience the life of a butterfly inlcluding their predators and the need for lots of energy.
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]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Song: Little Butterfly Friend
Learn about butterflies through this song by Elmo. [1:45]
PBS
Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: Get Up & Go Play!: Monarch Butterfly Tagging
Playing outside makes kids happier, healthier and stronger! In this segment of KIDS Clubhouse Adventures, co-host Abby Brown and kids head out to safely catch, tag and release monarch butterflies as they travel through the Midwest to...
Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary: Learn All About the Butterfly Life Cycle
An animated video illustrates the life cycle of butterflies. [1:43]
Minute Earth
Minute Earth: Are These Butterflies the Same?
This video explains the differences and similarities between the White Admiral and Red-Spotted Purple butterflies. [2:44]
SciShow
Sci Show Kids: How a Caterpillar Becomes a Butterfly
Learn the four stages the caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly. [3:57]
PBS
Nh Pbs: Wildlife Journal Jr: Saving the Karner Blue Butterfly
Learn how scientists in New Hampshire are trying to reclaim habitat and nurture eggs in a quest to save the tiny endangered Karner Blue Butterfly. [8:26]
Next Vista for Learning
Next Vista for Learning: Life Cycle of a Butterfly
A short video showing the stages of the life cycle of a butterfly. See how a butterfly develops from a tiny egg. [0:58]
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]