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Wrap it up!
Sometimes the conclusion of an essay can be the most important part. Whether your writers are ending with a proposition, lesson learned, or persuasive argument, teach them how to "end with a bang" with this helpful PowerPoint! This...
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"Caterpillars to Butterflies"
Students participate in a variety of activities about how caterpillers become butterflies.
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The Gingerbread Man
Students tour their school meeting all of the staff members and taking their pictures. They use the pictures to make cut outs that describe the person's job and other facts about them. They listen the Gingerbread Man, and retell the...
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Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Pupils complete a variety of exercises involving butterflies and their life cycle.
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Hatched From An Egg
Students discover how animals are born/hatched. In this life science instructional activity, students listen to a book entitled Chickens Aren't The Only Ones, and discuss animals that are hatched or born. Students receive a picture...
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Beautiful Bugs
Students investigate the life cycle of ants, ladybugs, and butterflies. They list the four stages of the butterfly life cycle, define symmetry and observe how ants make homes in dirt.
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Pancakes, Pancakes!- Measuring
Students estimate measurements in real world problem situations. In this estimation instructional activity, students read the book Pancakes, Pancakes and estimate how many cups equal a pint, quart, and gallon. Students test their...
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Stick Out Your Tongue
Students explore their sense of taste and recognize good foods to eat. In this tasting lesson, students recognize that their tongue has taste buds for different types of tastes. Students create a bar graph showing their favorite taste (...
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"Where is My Food?"
Students investigate the monarch's searching behavior and ability to find food. They determine whether or not a caterpillar can find food in a simple Y-shaped maze. They record and graph or chart the data from several attempts using...
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KWL Chart: Living and Non Living
In this KWL chart worksheet, students fill in this graphic organizer about living and non-living things. Students complete 3 sections in the chart.
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Butterfly Bonanza
Students describe life cycle of the butterfly after reading and singing about butterflies.
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Paper Art
Students investigate the various techniques that studenT book illustrators utilize such as paper collage, die-cut pages, and object stencils for relief printing.
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Butterfly Life Cycle
Students describe and state the four stages of the life cycle of a butterfly. In this life cycle lesson plan, students copy words and pictures from the life cycle and then identify each stage.
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Butterflies
Students will explore the life cycle of the Painted Lady butterfly by raising their own. They will incorporate math, science, and language arts as they graph, pattern, journal, observe, and artistically create.
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Life Cycle Of A Frog
Pupils use books and an art activity to study the stages of a frog's life cycle. After listening to a book about frogs, students engage in a fun art activity. When finished, pupils work is displayed as a pond on the bulletin board.
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Munchy Math
Learners manipulate computer mouse to place the cursor on a numeral to match the correct number of foods, using Kidspiration.
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Collage Butterflies
Students make their own butterfly on contact paper. In this art lesson, students cut or tear small pieces of tissue paper to put on their butterfly. Students place another piece of contact paper over the tissue paper pieces and cut the...
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Valley of the Butterflies
First graders explore why butterfly populations in Idaho's Lapwai Valley have decreased.
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Nutrition in Space
Students compare and contrast the process of dehydration with the processes of freezing and canning. They predict energy sources that may be accessible in the future in different environments such as the moon and planets, most notably Mars.
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Lifecycle of Painted Lady Butterflies
Students make a chart of the life cycle of the painted lady butterflies that the class observes over a period of several days.
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Observing Plants
Students identify how plants affect the survival of a caterpillar and what plants need to survive. They plant three bean seeds in the three containers, placing two containers at a sunny window and the third one in a dark closet and label...
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I Like Bugs!
Students explore the story I Like Bugs! In this language arts lesson, students sort bugs from the story into the correct category. Students draw pictures of bugs and create a retelling booklet.
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Read, Read, Read !
Students perform repeated readings of the same text to increase their reading fluency and expression. They practice reading sentences from the board aloud to practice fluency. They read "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed" as a class.
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Word Wizards: Students Making Words
Students explore patterns in words and how to make new words by adding or changing the sequence of letters