Moxie Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 Our caterpillars should be here any day so I'm trying to put together a butterfly unit. Any online resources I should check out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClassicMom Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 is a really good one. (sorry, you said online). I PM'd you about some things that I have. There is a lot online about butterfiles. Do you have enchanted learning? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Theophan Academy Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 Enrichment4you has some cheap unit reasources - I really like the one on making your own butterfly garden. http://www.enrichment4you.com/index.php?cPath=19_46_57 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alice Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 I did a butterfly unit for my son (4 yrs old) about a month ago. Raising the caterpillars and butterflies was great! That was definitely the highlight. Some books we liked: Hurry and the Monarch by Antoine O'Flatharta Monarch Butterfly by Gail Gibbons Caterpillar, caterpillar by Vivian French Butterfly story by Anca Hariton The Butterfly Alphabet Book by Brian Cassie and Jerry Pallotta Butterfly House by Eve Bunting The Butterfly Alphabet by Kjell Sandved (this is real photos of butterflies with what look like letters on their wings, it's pretty cool) Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert Becoming Butterflies by Anne Rockwell Other fun things we did: Watched DK Eyewitness video on butterflies and moths- my son really liked this video. I made a life cycle game/craft. I just drew the different parts of the life cycle and my son had to put them in order and glue onto a piece of paper. My son usually hates to color in coloring books but I found this Stained Glass Coloring book of butterflies that he loved. We still have the butterflies from it on our windows. http://store.doverpublications.com/0486430618.html Also, there is a free lapbook on butterflies on Homeschool Share. http://www.homeschoolshare.com/butterfly_lapbook.php. I'm not much of a lapbooker, but the site also has a good library list and may just give you some ideas of things to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisychics Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23604&highlight=butterfly This is from nestof3. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennay Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 We're doing our butterfly unit right now. Our first 2 butterflies emerged today! The lapbook at www.homeschoolshare.com mentioned above is really very good. I always felt overwhelmed with what to do for a lapbook and this just lays it all out for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisawa Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 Our caterpillars should be here any day so I'm trying to put together a butterfly unit. Any online resources I should check out? I just found this link... We are ordering our caterpillars to next week.... This is for younger children... This post is filled with links and great pictures of a lap book and the links they used to study... even if you don’t want to make a lap book, it has wonderful links and book suggestions... Butterfly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nestof3 Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 www.learningpage.com has some nice buttefly worksheets and coloring sheets. You have to become a member, but it's free. They also have lots of other great stuff! :D Here's a page with lots of great links: http://www.theteachersguide.com/butterflies.htm Like this: http://www.klru.org/butterflies/butterfly_lesson.htm coloring pages http://www.thebutterflysite.com/butterfly-coloring-pages.shtml http://www.primarygames.com/science/butterflies/coloring.htm Monarchs http://www.fs.fed.us/monarchbutterfly/teacherandstudent/index.shtml http://midgefrazel.net/monarchtheme.html Nice labeling and other worksheets: http://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/publications/files/waterdrops_gardens_teachers.pdf More http://www.earthsbirthday.org/butterflies/bflys/activitykit/contents.html http://www.klru.org/butterflies/pdf/lesson2.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nestof3 Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 Here's a butterfly booklet: http://education.nacse.org/Curriculum/downloadables/butterflybook.pdf Life Cycle Sheet http://www.monarchlab.umn.edu/teacherresources/perfpack/bflytask3-1.html http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/monarchlifecycle.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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