1. Butterfly Flutterby Delaina Bryan and Lora Drum
A Butterfly’s Life
Butterfly Flutterby
Delaina Bryan and Lora Drum

2. Information about Butterflies Learning Activities Games Art/Crafts
Introduction
Information about Butterflies
Learning Activities
Games
Art/Crafts
Songs and Poems
Web Quests
Teacher Resources
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3. Introduction
This project is designed to integrate technology within a thematic unit on butterflies. Students will have the opportunity to explore and learn about butterflies through interactive tasks, games, and/or arts and crafts.
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4. Butterfly Information
What is a Butterfly?
Characteristics
Life Cycle
Habitats
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5. What is a butterfly? Task 1
Click the highlighted link to find out about butterflies and then answer the following questions on a separate piece of paper:
How many body parts do butterflies have?
How many legs do butterflies have?
How fast can the fastest butterflies fly?
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6. Characteristics
Task 2
Click to see the body parts of a butterfly and then click to see another view, and one more look.
Look at the table on this link to explore butterflies and moths. Click and print the diagram to compare and contrast butterflies with moths.
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7. Characteristics cont…
Task 3
Click to observe two different butterflies of your choice. Print the page on the following link to Compare & Contrast the two different butterflies you chose.
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8. Butterfly Life Cycle
Click here to find a diagram to print of the life cycle of the butterfly.
Click here to find a sequencing activity to learn more about butterflies.
Click here to find a cut and paste activity to complete.
Click here to find a coloring page for more information about the life cycle of a Painted Lady Butterfly.
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9. Task 4 Sequence the life cycle pictures in the correct order.1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 1 2 3 4
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10. Video
Task 5
Click here to watch a video of the process of metamorphosis. Be sure to follow the steps below. (Note: See the teacher if you have forgotten your password.)
Step 1: Click on the video link above.
Step 2: Click on the segment tab.
Step 3: Click on the link: This video has 3 segments.
Step 4: Click on the title: Lives of Butterflies and Moths segment
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11. Habitats
Task 6
Click here to see where butterflies live in North America. Make a list of the butterfly families that can be found in North Carolina. Hint: There are 6 different families.
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12. Learning Activities The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Butterfly Symmetry
Butterfly Life Cycle Book
Lively Butterflies Mini book
Graphing Butterfly Favorites
Tricky Butterfly Hunters
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13. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Task 7
Click on this link to print cards to sequence the events in the story.
Click on this link to print pictures beginning with the letter ” c” and a caterpillar body. Color, cut, and paste the pictures (circles) on the caterpillar’s body.
Click on this link to play a word game using words from the book
Click on this link to print your own take home version of the book
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14. Butterfly Symmetry Task 8
All butterflies wings are examples of symmetry. Click on this link (click on Process Activity 4) to open a pattern to practice symmetry by drawing the matching pattern on the blank wing. Then click here to design your own butterfly. Make sure that both wings are symmetrical.
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15. Butterfly Book Task 9 Cover Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4
1. Click on each page to the right.
2. Print a copy of each page.
3. Color the pictures.
4. Cut out the pages.
5. Staple together to form book to read and share with others.
Cover
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
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16. Cover
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17. Page 1
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18. Page 2
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19. Page 3
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20. Page 4
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21. Reading Mini- Book
Click on the link below to print a mini booklet called “Lively Butterflies”.
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22. Graphing Butterfly Favorites
Look at the different kinds (species) of butterflies on the following link and write down your favorite choice.
After everyone in the class has voted, we will create a graph representing the data collected.
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23. Tricky Butterfly Hunters
Read the directions for this activity on this link.
Draw, color, and cut out your own butterfly or use a pattern from your teacher.
Once all students have created a butterfly, the class will do the activity linked to this page.
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24. Fluttering Fun: Online Games
Catch the Butterflies
Butterfly Jigsaw Puzzle
Bug Bait
Drop & Drag Puzzle
Flutter's Tic Tac Toe
Concentration/Memory
Monarch Maze
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25. Art & Crafts Pasta Metamorphosis Tissue Paper Butterflies
Stained Glass Butterflies
Metamorphosis Butterfly Card
Butterfly Blob Picture
Chenille Stem Butterflies
Where Do Butterflies Come From?
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26. Songs and Poems
Task 10
Print The Fuzzy Wuzzy Caterpillar poem and then read it independently to self. Create movements to go along with each stanza and then act it out for someone.
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28. WebQuests
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29. Teacher Resources Websites
Butterfly Pavilion -
The Butterfly Website -
Butterfly Resource Guide
Suggested Children’s Books
From Caterpillar to Butterfly, by Deborah Heiligman, Scholastic Inc., 555 Broadway, New York, NY, 10012,  1996.
A day-to-day description of  observing the miracle of metamorphosis.
Charlie the Caterpillar, by Dom De Luise, Simon & Schuster,NC., Rockefeller Center, 1230 Avenue of the Americas,
A delightful tale of a caterpillar's journey through the world before he makes his chrysalis, and what happens after he emerges as a butterfly.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle, Philomel Books, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 1987.
The ever popular story of a caterpillar's voracious appetite during this stage of the life cycle.
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