Prepared for a second grade class

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What is a Butterfly?

• Prepared for a second grade class
• By Susan Conway

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What is a Butterfly?

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A Butterfly Is.

• An insect that can fly
• An insect that goes through a process of
  metamorphosis to become a butterfly
• An insect that goes through four stages

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The Stages of a Butterfly

• The butterfly goes through four stages to become
  a butterfly
• Egg
• Larva
• Pupa
• Adult Butterfly

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The Egg

• The egg is made when another adult butterfly lays
  an egg on a leaf or tree
• It takes a few days for the egg to hatch

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The Larva

• Once the egg hatches, a caterpillar(or larva)
  comes out
• The caterpillar eats its way out of the egg

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The Pupa

• The caterpillar eats a lot, then it looks for a
  place to rest
• It creates a chrysalis cocoon (or pupa) and
  sleeps until it is ready to come out

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The Adult Butterfly

• The caterpillar can stay days, weeks, months, or
  even years in its pupa
• Once it is large enough to come out, the
  butterfly escapes from its cocoon
• Once its wings are ready it is able to fly away

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Now For Your Task..

• Now you will be tested on what you have learned
  about butterflies
• Click on the link below, print it out, and answer
  the questions

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How Did You Do?

• Go to the next page to check the answers!!!!

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Answers
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References

• www.gardenmosaic.com/four_stages_of_a_butterfly.ht
  m
• www.hhmi.org/coolscience/butterfly/
• www.acnatsci.org/education/L2L/Four_Stages_of_Deve
  lopment.html
• www.acnatsci.org/education/L2L/Anatomy.html
• www.EnchantedLearning.com/subjects/butterfly/Lifec
  ycle/index.shtml
• www.images.on.ca/JayC/pages/monarch.htm

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Butterfly Questions

• What are the stages a butterfly goes through?
• How long does it take an egg to hatch?
• What does a caterpillar do once it hatches?
• How long does it take a butterfly to come out of
  its cocoon?