Beyond the Book

Go to the 4 2 eXplore subject: Butterflies
http://eduscapes.com/42explore/butter.htm

Use the Internet Connections below to find more resources:

• Find out where butterflies live.
  http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/parkwoodes/second.html
• See a butterfly show about their stages of life.
  http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/forestknollses/studentwork/butterfly/
• Make beautiful butterflies
  http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/insect/b_fly.html
• Children's Butterfly Site--Hot List of Butterfly Sites
  http://www.mesc.nbs.gov/butterfly/butterfly%2Dhotlist.html

 Teacher Lesson Plans: 

Life Cycle of Butterflies Grades: K&endash;3 This is a technology lesson for second grade. Lesson will teach about the life cycle of a butterfly.
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/littlekids/lesson_comparingbutterflies.htm

Watercolor Butterfly--Art Activity-A colorful lesson to paint butterflies for elementary students. This can also be a great science lesson when studying butterflies or insects. http://askeric.org/cgibin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Arts/Visual_Arts/ARA0025.htm

The Birth of a Butterfly--Lesson Plan Grade 1, 2
http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Science/Entomology/ENT0109.html

 

Creativity and Butterflies--Children love to study butterflies and use their imagination.This
lesson gives them the opportunity to do both.
http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Science/Entomology/ENT0008.html

 

Caterpillars to Butterflies-- This unit involves setting up a science activity that allows students to observe the development of a caterpillar into a butterfly.

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/sci/sci61.txt

 

Caresheet for rearing caterpillars

http://kidscience.about.com/kids/kidscience/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.ex.ac.uk/bugclub/cater.html

 

Children's Butterfly Site Coloring page of Monarch Butterfly life Cycle

http://www.mesc.nbs.gov/butterfly/butterfly%2Dcoloring.html

 

Bugs and Butterfly- Activities

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Pond/6174/themes_Bugs_n_Butterflies.htm#crafts

 

Ms. Cooke's Butterfly Webquest
http://members.home.net/pdxteach/index2.html

Butterfly Clip Art
http://www.animfactory.com/af_insects_butterfly_page_aa.html

 

Beautiful Butterflies--Teacher Lesson Plan 4th to 6th
http://entowww.tamu.edu/academic/ucourses/ento489/noframes/lessons/lesson52.html

 

 

 

Author and Book Connections 

Lois Ehlert is the author of many award-winning picture books. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she creates her books. She collects folk art.

 

Explore information about the author of the book:

 

http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/pusdtes/Lois%20Ehlert.htm

http://www.friend.ly.net/scoop/biographies/ehlertlois/ http://www.coe.ufl.edu/faculty/lamme/student/author/EArticles/EhlertLois.html http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/kidlit/aom/janaom.html

Read other books by the same author:

Hands

Planting a Rainbow

Growing Vegetable Soup

Eating the Alphabet
Circus Clowns
Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On
Snowballs
Color Farm
Nuts to You
Red Leaf Yellow Leaf
Color Zoo 1990 Caldecott Honor Book

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Feathers for Lunch

Market Day: A Story Told With Folk Art

Top Cat

Moles Hill: A Woodland Tale

Thump, Thump, Rat-A-Tat-Tat

Angel Hide and Seek
A Pair of Socks

 

 

 

 

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