Life of a Human And

Life of a Butterfly By: Kate Yeager

Day 1- Discuss a human in infancy and a butterfly’s egg• Talk about the similarities and differences through making a Ven Diagram

• Day 2- Discuss the second phase of a butterfly and humans life, Childhood and caterpillar• Add to Ven Diagram

• Day 3- Discuss the third stages of cocoon and Teenage years and add to the Ven Diagram. •Cut and paste butterfly and human life cycle work sheets.

• Day 4- Talk about butterfly and adult and add to Ven Diagram. •Discuss different types of butterflys that live around where we live. •Make a paper plate butterfly and have the children decorate it as one of the butterflies that live in our region.

• Day 5- Give each of the children a monarch butterfly egg. Put them all in the cage properly. Take Spelling test. Watch movie.

Daily Outline

Daily Technology UsesDay 1- Add daily activities to Wiki for the week and send letter home encouraging parents to check it. Day 2- Use the ELMO to discuss the childrens “Caterpillar Math” Day 3- Watch “Life” movie on “Monarch Butterfly Migration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFPlQK9rn14

Day 4- use http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html to make my own crossword puzzle for the kids crossword using spelling words about the lesson. Day 5- Watch “Magic School Bus Butterfly and the Bog Beast”

Objectives

Works Cited

Students learn about the life cycles of a ButterflyStudents learn about the life cycles of a Human Students are able to tell the two apart as well as see how they relateStudents become excited for raising their own butterflies in the classroom

Web. 2 Mar. 2011. <http://blog.genxrising.com/2009_02_01_archive.html>.

Asmus, Stephen. Web. 2 Mar. 2011. <http://fohn.net/monarch-butterfly-pictures/>.