1. Life cycle Place in order by moving pictures chrysalis butterfly egg
caterpillar

2. Ideas Map Students to discus groups. What they think they know pests
Where do caterpillars come from?
What are they doing in the garden?
caterpillar
movement
Food
Habitat
Changes
Leaves lettuce
cabbage
Interactive white board for all students in this group to use.
When we come back what have we found out and compare ideas.

3. Word wall Life in our Garden
butterfly
larvae
pupae
egg
habitat
plant
worm
snail
environment
spider
caterpillar
ant

4. What do you know example
Sam
8/5/12
* They are born from an egg
to a caterpillar then eat and eat.
That the caterpillar forms a chrysalis
and becomes a butterfly.
Butterfly's
Have wings, antennae, coulourful
Caterpillars
Are soft, they eat a lots, and turn into a Butterfly.
New words on word wall and their meanin.g
That the caterpillar was born from an
egg that the butterfly laid.
* That there was a cycle that goes round
and round.
* That other animals have life cycles like
frogs and plants and us.

5. Task Card 2 To Introduce the concept of life cycles in the local environment. Class discussion on each stage of development with in the life cycle of a butterfly. Watch video Fill out work sheet what do I know?
Activity 1
* Divide your paper into 4 sections and draw each stage of the life cycle as seen as the video
Write a brief description in each box using scientific language. Refer to the word board
Activity 2
Complete life cycle word search
Activity 3
Answer these questions
What other animal life cycles are you familiar with?
How is the life cycle similar?
How are they Different?
How many stages?
What did you learn? Complete work sheet

6. New Word Meanings Egg – a small object made by an animal
that holds its young and the food required for development.
Grow – to get bigger and develop to.
Cycle – a series of stages through which something passes during its lifetime.
Life – the time from brth to death; an creature that is born, grows, consumes food, reproduces, and dies is alive.
Adult – a fully developed and animal; grown-up.
Instinct – a behavior that an animal can do without being taught; a behavior that an animal is born knowing how to do.
Metamorphosis – a noticeable change in the form of an animal that happens after hatching.
Change - to become different.

7. Interactive lifecycle game