Butterfly Life CycleButterfly Life Cycle

A Web Quest for 1st A Web Quest for 1st Grade ScienceGrade Science

Butterfly Life CycleButterfly Life Cycle

A Web Quest for 1st A Web Quest for 1st Grade ScienceGrade Science

Christa CasavantChrista Casavant

Introduction

• Do you know where butterflies come from? 

• In this WebQuest you and your partner will learn about butterflies   You will use the Internet to see each of the 4 stages of the butterfly life cycle

·       The egg ·       The caterpillar ·       The chrysalis·       The butterfly

Task #1

• Review of butterfly knowledge.• Assign students into pairs.• Partners will look at other butterfly web quests

and review their findings about the following:• Where do butterflies come from? • Look at a Swallowtail butterfly.• Watch a video of a caterpillar hatch from

its egg!

Task #2

• Color poster of the four stages of a butterfly.• Create different art projects of butterflies:

– Color a picture of a monarch butterfly.– Create “Eggs on a Leaf” art project.– Create “Egg Carton Caterpillars”– Create “The Adult Butterfly”

Task #3

• Discuss and write a paragraph (4 sentences) of what you and your partner have learned.Try to answer some of the following questions:

• Do butterflies grow up differently from people?

• How do these insects change as they grow?

• How many stages do they have?• What do the stages look like?

Evaluation• Teacher will provide a rubric to

asses the students work!

• I hope you learned more about butterflies during this web quest!