A Butterfly's Life By Tish Rabe

The Monarch Butterfly’s life cycle has four stages, it begins with the egg, the caterpillar, the pupa, and then it emerges into an Adult butterfly.The female adult monarch butterfly mates with a male butterfly, and later lays its eggs specifically on a milkweed plant. After the eggs hatch, they turn into larva. The larva then spins a silky mat which turns into a chrysalis. Finally, the larva merges into an adult monarch butterfly.

Science is something that is not too much a part of the curriculum for this preschool classroom. I happened to be observing while they are watching caterpillars turn into butterflies. The first thing the teachers do is to explain the life cycle of a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, and then they read the book The Hungry Caterpillar. This book has vivid illustrations and really breaks down the life cycle of a butterfly. Students are asked questions and as questions along the way to ensure they understand the text and to clarify anything that they do not understand. Once the book is over, students are asked if they have any questions. Some do, but the main question was “Can we see the caterpillars now!”

The Moth has different sections or themes that are relevant to the individual storyteller. Each storyteller has the same structure and process of interpretively the story, such as sharing their personal experience, giving us details of their background and start telling their stories to us, as an audience. The intention of the storyteller is that everybody has their own story to tell regardless of the differences in culture, the title of the position, and even educational background. The three stories I chose are relevant to my personal experience and how the storyteller represents the stories to me.

Life cycle TS: The life cycle of the monarch butterfly is divided into four stages: larvae, caterpillar, cocoon, butterfly-the larvae turns into the caterpillar which will develop a chrysalis state to turn it into an adult butterfly with a lifespan which can be about 2-6 weeks, but 4th generation monarchs will migrate and live around 6-8 months.

12: A brief description of its reproduction activities: So first a butterfly gives lays eggs. Next it will hatch from the egg and become a butterfly. After that it will make a cocoon. After that the cocoon with break and the butterfly will come out. This is reproduction

Depending on the time of year and temperatures determines how many species will be active in the wing. Currently, the thriving butterfly wing holds 1,230 butterflies representing 77 species. The 2,500 foot conservatory was made to improve the lives of butterflies, as well as inspire guests by roughly resembling a butterfly in flight. Christina Reiman Butterfly Wing encourages visitors to unplug, share appreciation, and further knowledge of the natural world inside the enchanting home of butterflies. Inside the the clear-glass tropical oasis, is a live viewing for guests to see the butterflies hatching and emerging from the chrysalis. Beyond the learning center of the early-life of a butterfly, is the beautiful antechamber filled with tropical nectar plants and the large collection of butterflies, encouraging guests to take advantage of the exploration

Hauke was thrilled to put his theoretical knowledge of numeracy skills into practical applications. While learning measurement, children worked on an activity where they traced their own foot and then use its cutout to measure the length of various objects, materials, and shelves or furniture in our classroom. This was Hauke’s favorite activity. Hauke practiced his addition and subtraction facts skills while working on trading smaller bills for larger ones, and adding the total values of bills/coins using cash register. Making thermometer and measuring the temperature using various thermometers captivated his interest. Hauke loved making his own geo board by sanding the wooden block, marking squares of equal measurement, carefully putting nails and then making various geometric shapes using elastic bands.

The children made a Paper Mache cocoon and broke it open to reveal a butterfly inside, helping them to learn the amazing process of a caterpillars life turning into a butterfly.

Bottle (2005:84), in agreement with Drews, D (2013), posits that teachers need to have careful considerations when choosing appropriate manipulatives according to their understanding of whether the manipulative will support students in their thinking. Bottle (2005:84), in agreement with Drews, D (2013), posits that teachers need to have careful considerations when choosing appropriate manipulative according to their understanding of whether the manipulative will support students in their thinking. Bottle (2005:84), in agreement with Drews, D (2013), posits that teachers need to have careful considerations when choosing appropriate manipulatives according to their understanding of whether the manipulative will support students in their thinking.

a.) I designed my lesson plan to be used in first and second grade. This lesson plan was designed to be a cross curriculum lesson about spiders that incorporates the following subject areas: Science, Language Arts, and Visual/Performance Arts. This lesson will be taught during the month of October after students have gained prior knowledge through an insect unit that was taught the month before.

Species Information.The Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is a very beautiful and unique creature who is desperate for the public’s help and awareness. Like Elizabeth Goudge mentioned, “[N]ot quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures”.This species of butterfly have ten centimeter bodies from wing to wing ; with a weight of less than half a gram. Therefore, these butterflies look pretty similar to each other with both of them having two orange-red wings with black veins and white spots along the edges, so the way to distinguish a male from a female is by looking at noticable black dots next to their veins and a difference in size indicating that their a male Monarch butterfly. That being said, their estimated life span is about four to five weeks, and they live in forests and mountains where they lay their eggs and along the way they pollinate the plants that keep them alive.

My project is about the monarch butterfly. I will be explaining how the monarch butterflies migrate and how they use the earth's magnetic field to do so.

Butterfly watching is an examination and study of the butterflies. It also incorporates the release and catch of butterflies. There are handbooks, festivals, clubs and checklists faithful to the activity. Equipment of Butterflies Watching are binoculars in low power and camera. Sub-Saharan Africa,Costa Rica and the Amazon Basin are the best locations of a Butterfly Watching. Butterfly based projects are done by the UK, Sweden, Finland and nether lands.

Butterflies fill an important role in ecosystems. The order Lepidoptera, which includes moths as well as butterflies, when present in high numbers they indicate a healthy ecosystem with a wide range of invertebrates. They are a natural pest control and pollinator species, contributing to success of other invertebrates. As well as playing a role in food webs. There are 320 species present in Europe, at least 112 are endemic. There are four stages in the butterfly life cycle from egg (ovum), to caterpillar (larva), to chrysalis (pupa) and butterfly (imago), each stage undergoing a complete stage of metamorphosis (Higgins & Riley, 1970).

A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. Butterflies comprise the true butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea), the skippers (superfamily Hesperioidea) and the moth-butterflies (superfamily Hedyloidea). All the many other families within the Lepidoptera are referred to as moths. The earliest known butterfly fossils date to the mid Eocene epoch, between 40–50 million years ago.