Today's Classroom Activities :

Butterflies

Beautiful Butterflies
Science/Art Study various types of butterflies that live in your area. As a culminating activity, have each student or group select one type of butterfly to make on a folded three- or four-inch piece of paper. Glue the completed butterflies to a wooden spring-type clothespin and display.

Wings of Light: The Migration of the Yellow Butterfly
by Stephen R. Swinburne, illustrated by Bruce Hiscock
The migration of the cloudless sulphur butterfly from the Yucatan Peninsula to North America is an amazing flight.

ACTIVITY
MAP IT
Using a map similar to the one in the book, have students pinpoint all of the locations that are mentioned such as the Yucatan Peninsula, the Gulf of Mexico and the states that are visited by the butterflies. This can be done with push pins, string, yarn or even small paper butterflies. Depending on the grade level, students can calculate the average mileage covered by the butterflies each day.

Life Cycle of a Butterfly
In this lesson, students will learn how to identify the four stages of a butterfly's life cycle.

Study Life Cycles with Butterflies
Students will learn about the dramatic changes that insects experience throughout their life cycle. They will also learn that all living things change during their lifetime.

Butterfly cycle
Students will understand the life cycle of the butterfly and create various art activities that would model metamorphosis.

Fragile Butterfly
Student can show their knowledge of butterfly anatomy—and line symmetry by sculpting a clay butterfly that is fragile, beautiful, and realistic.