Butterfly Life Cycle

Introduction

Grade: 2nd

Have you ever wondered how did a butterfly become a butterfly? There is a cycle butterflies go through in order to become a beautiful butterfly. This cycle contains four parts. Each part of the cycle is important and helps to make the butterfly. The students in the other grade 2 class are unsure about the way the cycle runs, the name of each part and the meanings. They really need your help in understanding how the cycle runs, the name of each part of the cycle, and the meaning of each part. I know you guys will do a great job helping them to understand.

Task

You and your peers will work together to explore resources about the butterfly life cycle. You will put together as much information as you can to help you with understanding butterfly cycle. Each group will then work together to create the cycle using materials given by the teacher. Each part of the cycle will have its name, a picture, and the function.

Process

Time to get started!

Step 1: You will decide on your working partners and work in groups of three.

Step 2: One student from the group will collect the materials needed to carry out the project. The materials include:

Safety scissors
Glue stick
Colored pencils
One paper plate
Construction paper (different colors)
One sharpie marker

Step 3: Each group member will explore resources to gather information about the butterfly life cycle.

Step 4: The team members will put together ideas about making a butterfly life cycle using the materials given. After putting ideas together, decide on one idea.

Step 5: Each team will create a butterfly life cycle using the materials. Each cycle should have pictures of each stage using the construction paper or drawn, the name of the cycle and each part, a brief explanation of each part, and arrows showing which direction the cycle will go. The plate should also be split into four (4) equal parts.

Step 6: Each group will present their butterfly life cycle to the grade two class.

Evaluation

Category	Excellent 3	Good 2	Satisfactory 1	Score
Group work	Gets along well with others in their group and help others	Does his or her part only in the group	Does not put forth enough effort and not getting along with others	/3
Used Materials	Students used all materials to complete project	Students partially used materials to complete project	Students use little to no materials to complete project	/3
Includes name of cycle, parts and meanings	Students includes all of the areas	Students are missing some of the areas	Students are missing most of the areas	/3
Creativity	Students demonstrate outstanding creativity and neat	Students demonstrate limited creativity and is a bit messy	Students demonstrate no creativity and is extremely messy	/3
Presentation	Students presented and explained all areas of the cycle	Students presented some of the areas of the cycle	Students presented little to none of the areas of the cycle	/3
Total: /15

Conclusion

Congratulations!

You have made it to the end of the webquest. The butterfly cycle goes through different stages before it turns into that beautiful butterfly. This cycle continues over and over. Just like butterflies have a cycle, many other things have cycles. Can you think of any other life cycles? List the cycles you have thought about?

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