Concepts of Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Teachers want to keep these ideas in mind throughout the unit to help guide instruction and to emphasize with learners.
Life Cycles of organisms
Animals have life cycles that include being born, developing into adults, reproducing and eventually dying.
Butterflies experience a series of metamorphoses, egg larva, caterpillar, chrysalis, and adult. These make up their life cycle.
Needs/Interdpendence
Organisms have basic needs.
In order to live and grow caterpillars need food, air, shelter and space.
Butterflies also need food, air, shelter, and space to live but they do not grow after emerging from the chrysalis.
Adaptation
Each organism has different structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, and reproduction.
Caterpillars and butterflies have special features that help them meet their needs in their habitat. (i.e. Butterflies have wings and a proboscis. Caterpillars have hooks on their prolegs, bristles for protection, silk spinneret, and a jaw that moves side to side instead of up and down.)
Inquiry Skills
Inquiry skills are those skills students use to make sense of their science investigations. They tell what the students will actually be doing in science. The Inquiry Skills for The Life Cycle of Butterflies are:
Classifying
Collecting Data
Comparing
Communicating
Describing
Discussing
Inferring
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Interpreting Data
Observing
Organizing Data
Predicting
Questioning
Recording
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