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Butterfly

This lesson plan focuses on teaching 3rd grade students about the life cycle of butterflies. The students will engage by listening to a story about the life cycle of a caterpillar and asking questions. They will then explore by classifying the foods a caterpillar eats at different stages of growth. The teacher will explain the life cycle using a diagram and video. Students will elaborate by ordering pictures of the life cycle stages. The lesson will conclude with an evaluation where students answer matching questions and draw the life cycle. The goal is for students to understand the stages of growth and metamorphosis.

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Butterfly

This lesson plan focuses on teaching 3rd grade students about the life cycle of butterflies. The students will engage by listening to a story about the life cycle of a caterpillar and asking questions. They will then explore by classifying the foods a caterpillar eats at different stages of growth. The teacher will explain the life cycle using a diagram and video. Students will elaborate by ordering pictures of the life cycle stages. The lesson will conclude with an evaluation where students answer matching questions and draw the life cycle. The goal is for students to understand the stages of growth and metamorphosis.

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NGSS Lesson Planning Template

Grade 3
Topic: living things
Lesson: life cycle
Brief Lesson Description: The students will be described how different animals grow
and change during their life cycle.
Performance Expectation(s): Develop models to describe that organisms have unique
and diverse life cycles, but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and
death.
Grade/ Grade Band:

Specific Learning Outcomes:

Students will be able to

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)

Listen to a story.
Identify and label parts of the butterfly.
Illustrate the life cycle of a butterfly.
Design a pre-drawn butterfly
Ask questions about butterfly
Observe a butterfly or a caterpillar in their natural habitat.

Narrative / Background Information


Prior Student Knowledge:

The students have considerable knowledge about the life cycle .

Science & Engineering


Practices:

Disciplinary Core Ideas:

Developing and Using


Models, Modeling in 35
builds on K2 experiences
and progresses to building
and revising simple
models and using models
to represent events and
design solutions. Develop
models to describe
phenomena. (3-LS1-1)

LS1.B: Growth and


Development of
Organisms Reproduction
is essential to the
continued existence of
every kind of organism.
Plants and animals have
unique and diverse life
cycles. (3-LS1-1)

Crosscutting Concepts:

PS2.A: Forces and Motion

Patterns of change can be


used to make predictions.
(3-LS1-1)

Possible Preconceptions/Misconceptions:

Students may confuse with words that have the same meaning but different word.
Such as, larva and caterpillar.
LESSON PLAN 5-E Model
ENGAGE: Opening Activity Access Prior Learning / Stimulate Interest / Generate Questions:

The teacher will read aloud a story about the very hungry caterpillar. The teacher
will ask students to set in reading area to listen to the story. During the story, the
teacher will ask the students some question such as:

Why do we grow?

How does a caterpillar become a butterfly?

How does ones responsibility affect the environment?

Who is the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar?

What does a caterpillar eat?

What are the stages of the life cycle of a butterfly?

How long does it take a caterpillar to become a butterfly?

EXPLORE: Lesson Description Materials Needed / Probing or Clarifying Questions:

The teacher gives each group a butterfly design paper to classify the food that the
caterpillar eats it before growth.
Teacher instruction:
Clean your desk.
I put on each table a caterpillar design paper.
You have a different food picture.
You have to classify what the caterpillar eats first, second, until to growth.
You have to stick to each picture in the right place.
Also, you have started when the time starts.
If you have any question, just raise your hand and I will come.

If you have finished, just keep it and let the other group finish.
EXPLAIN: Concepts Explained and Vocabulary Defined:
The teacher explains the life cycle of butterfly by using the digram and watch the
life cycle of a butterfly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8sAHQYvVf0
Teach them a new vocabulary word:
Metamorphosis: a change in form during an animals life cycle.
Larva: the second stage in the life cycle of some insects.
Pupa: the stage in an insects life cycle between larva and adult.

ELABORATE: Applications and Extensions:

The teacher gives each group a caterpillar activity to order the stages of the life
cycle of a butterfly.
Teacher instruction:
Clean your desk.
I give each group a caterpillar.
You will have a picture of the life cycle stage of a butterfly.
You have to order the stages from beginning to become a butterfly.
Also, you have started when the time starts.
If you have any question, just raise your hand and I will come.
If you have finished, just keep it and let the other group finish.
EVALUATE:

At the end of the lesson, the teacher gives the students a small exam to review the
lesson and make sure that the students understand the lesson.
Teacher instruction:
Now, you have a small test.
You have to do by yourself.
You have to answer the question.
First, you have to write your name with the date for today.

Then you have two questions; first one, you have to match the answer with
the definition. And second one, you have to draw the life cycle of butterfly and
color it.

Elaborate Further / Reflect: Enrichment:

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