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Process

1. First, as a class we will do a KWL chart to see what we already know about butterflies and caterpillars.

2. Second, you will look at the webpage’s I have listed below. Be sure to really explore the sites to see as much as you can about them! J

http://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/Cycle.htm

http://www.backyardnature.net/caterpil.htm

http://www.exhibits.pacsci.org/insects/buttermoth.html

http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/schools/beal/curriculum/butterfly/butterflies.html

3. Now that you have seen and heard a lot of information on butterflies and caterpillars, I would like for you to do a journal page. You can write about what you would rather be a butterfly or a caterpillar? Don’t forget to say why too. Do you like how they move around better, how they eat, what they look like? These are all questions you could be thinking of while doing your journal entry. Include a drawing and a sentence on your page.

4. Later we will share our journal entries with the class. We will make a graph together to see how many students chose a caterpillar and how many chose a butterfly.

5. Since you have learned a lot of new things about butterflies and caterpillars, we will make a project that shows the stages of a butterfly’s life. The example of it is at this webpage: http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/butterfly/index.html

6. Lastly, we will come together as a group and read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.

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