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Create a KWL chart on butterflies. What was the most surprising fact you learned about butterflies? Survey the students in other classes to find out what they know about butterflies. 

Using a globe, locate the countries where different species of butterflies live and migrate to. Brainstorm a list of other animals that migrate. 

What impact do butterflies have on the environment? What can you do outside your classroom window or in your schoolyard to attract butterflies? Use the index as well as outside sources to find the answers to these questions.

Create a butterfly collage mobile using torn construction paper as in the illustrations. Hang your butterfly art from the ceiling and invite other classes for a viewing. Share what you have learned about butterflies.

Browse through the pictures. What do you already know about butterflies? Do you know the answer to some of the questions listed in the table of contents? 

Make a class list of everything you already know about butterflies. Also note things you would like to know about butterflies. 

Use the text to write true or false questions about butterflies. 

Choose a butterfly that lives in your area. Take or find a picture and write five facts about it, using the text in the book as a model. 

Choose a local butterfly and reproduce it with construction paper, using the style of the illustrator. Write an information card about your butterfly to put with it when on display.

How to Raise Monarch Butterflies: A Step-by-Step Guide for Kids, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Butterfly, Caterpillars: Find, Identify, Raise Your Own

Mots-clés

Non-fiction , butterflies , caterpillars , life cycles , questions , science , transformation

Commentaire descriptif

Part of the Amaze series of books offering visual introductions to exciting topics, this one reveals how a furry caterpillar morphs into a beautiful butterfly. It focuses on the red admiral butterfly, but the general information about its life cycle (from egg to caterpillar to pupa to adult butterfly) applies to other types as well. Using a question-and-answer format, the book provides lively, kid-friendly information about food, moulting, wing patterns, migration and more. Children will be amazed to discover that butterflies beat their wings between 5 and 15 times a second. And that one type of butterfly, the painted lady, can fly more than 600 miles without stopping to rest. Each spread begins with a large typeface question followed by a short answer, along with colourful torn-paper illustrations, labeled diagrams and informative captions. Certain see-through pages beg to be held up to the light, allowing readers to witness the transformation that occurs inside a chrysalis. A useful reference tool for the classroom, the book also includes quick facts, a flow chart about the life cycle of a butterfly, an index and a simple science project on creating a butterfly garden. A complete glossary defines vocabulary words from the text (e.g. chrysalis, predator, thorax).