Go on a mission to Costa Rica and Mexico, and explore the state of tropical rain forest ecosystems by examining Costa Rican caterpillars. Learn what the change in this animal's population means for the rest of the ecosystem.

This set of lesson plans was developed to accompany Ground Rules: Mining Right for a Sustainable Future, a documentary film created by Caterpillar and Science North. They introduce learners to the various phases involved in mining,...

As you build your own caterpillar, make sure it has everything it needs for its survival. Learn how characteristics, like color, spines, and glands, can help protect the caterpillar.

Choose adaptation features that will help a caterpillar to survive when predators are nearby. Students enter their reasons for choosing the characteristics they did, and receive feedback.

A video of the book "A Very Hungry Caterpillar", written by Eric Carle. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.

Students will explore the life cycle of a butterfly using a website and observations of caterpillar metamorphosis. This instructional activity will incorporate science, mathematics, language arts, and art.

Here both students and teachers can learn about writer Eric Carle, the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and many other works for children. Includes video [3:39] Also offers teaching ideas, including themes for discussion.

Caterpillar game through which students practice counting up to 15.

An interactive game for ordering numbers and for number sequences. Can be used as an interactive whiteboard. Levels range from ordering and sequencing numbers to 5 up to decimals.

A monumental tube of lipstick sprouting from a military vehicle appeared, uninvited, on the campus of Yale University amidst the 1969 student protests against the Vietnam War. Claes Oldenburg made this sculpture and it served as a stage...

This series of articles is about butterflies and moths that you may see around your house. There is a special focus on the caterpillars that will become the moths because they cause most of the damage to trees.

Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. His best-known work is the familiar "The Very Hungry Caterpillar".

This site provides an extensive collection of photographs of insects.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to recognize the beginning and ending of a story and use word clues to put story events into the correct sequence. Lessons are based on the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn about putting events in order with a short text. Then they complete guided and independent sequencing activities with The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Short texts and handouts...

This site is a lesson plan for teachers. It is a lesson to study the life cycles of a butterfly. It explains how the students would find caterpillars and build a home for them.

Chance and the Butterfly, a novel written by Maggie deVries, looks at a foster child's struggles to fit in at school. He becomes fascinated by the caterpillars being studied in his classroom and takes one home. This teacher's guide...

Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" is a great trade book to teach many concepts across the curriculum. This instructional activity has activities to excite your young scholars in all subject areas. Students will be familiar with...

An extensive list of activities, songs, poems, and fingerplays are listed by alphabet-soup.com. Additional recipes, art projects, and literature connections are also included.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the insect world using activities and lesson plans that emphasize cross-curricular learning.

Two poems, "Monarch Butterfly" by Marilyn Singer and "The Caterpillar" by Christina Rossetti.

If you want to know about Eric Carle or any of his books this is the place to begin. Site includes biography, summary of books, information about his tours as well as links to lesson plans written by teachers.

It is that time of the year again when the monarch butterflies make their long journey from Canada to Central Mexico. We follow along on their incredible journey, and look at the challenges they encounter. Includes video (four minutes,...

Project to learn about the life cycle of a butterfly and how the caterpillar becomes to be a butterfly.