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=Names:= Jamarie Santiago Dorthea Walsh

**[much improvement since Tuesday]**

Aim:
How does a caterpillar turn into a butterfly?

Standards:

 * **National** – S2.b Life Sciences Concepts: Life cycles of organisms
 * **New York State** – Key Idea 3: Individual organisms and species change over time.
 * **New York City** – S4.1 The continuity of life is sustained through reproduction and development


 * Summary:**

When doing a lesson on the life cycle of a butterfly it helps to keep the lesson interesting. The students used digital cameras and digital microscopes to sees how a painted lady butterfly changes over time. By using digital cameras the students were able to take close up pictures of the painted lady butterfly in it's four life stages- caterpillar, chrysalis, adult and egg. The students then used the digital microscopes to see images that were to small to see otherwise. They were able to watch the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into the chrysalis. The Students then took images of the microscope every twenty seconds and were able to watch a video of the butterfly. The students were able to come up with a time line based on their lesson. Since we are teaching this lesson to a first grade class we could have a butterfly kit in the classroom which shows the life cycle of the butterfly. It also describes how teachers can explain lessons to the students using the life cycle of a butterfly. It describes how a students can work towards their goals and see a result, the same way as a catapillar turning into a butterfly is a final result


 * APA Citation:**
 * 1) Author: Giles, Rebecca M, Bagget Paige V; Shaw Edwards L Jr. publication: 2010 Becoming Butterflies   [|:]Making Metamorphosis Meaningful for Young Children (EJ857961)
 * 2) Author: Olson, Joanne K. Publication. 2008-12-00 Concept-Focused Teaching: Using Big Ideas to Guide Instruction in Science (EJ824850)
 * 3) Author: Locke, Debbie Publication:2006-05-00 A Time and a Season (EJ740860)
 * 4) Author: Wenze, Gloria Tansits Publication: 2003-0-00 Teaching through Trade Books: Life Cycle Science. (EJ666920)
 * 5) Author: Dobey, Daniel C; Springer, Heidi S. Publication: 2002-00-00 Simply Butterflies  . (EJ661783)
 * 6) Author: N/A Publication: 1998-00-00 Bug City: Butterflies   and Moths [Videotape] [|.] (ED434022)
 * 7) Author: Bowen, Anne; Bell, Randy L. Pub date: 2004-03-00 Winging It: Using Digital Imaging To Investigate Butterfly Metamorphosis (EJ695754)
 * 8) Author: Darby, Linda, Ed Pub date: 1997-00-00 Learning Activities for the Growth Season. (ED409118)

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 * Lesson Plans:**
 * 1) Gotta Go! Gotta Go! Scholastic Lesson Plan Students will "recognize that plants and animals have life cycles, and that life cycles vary for different living things." and "recognize changes in appearance that animals and plants go through as the seasons change." and "describe the major stages that characterize the life cycle of the frog and butterfly as they go through metamorphosis."From this lesson planned we noticed different ways that we can make a lesson fun for children. This particular lesson plans allows children to use technology to learn the life cycle of butterflies.
 * 2) Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly Scholastic Lesson Plan – Students will "retell or dramatize traditional literature." This lesson plan was very creative. Therefore, by looking at this lesson plan, we realized that creativity can make teaching a butterfly's life cycle fun.
 * 3) All About Butterflies Hotchalk Lesson Plan – Students will be able to identify the stages in a butterfly's life cycle. Students will be able to create a butterfly model, arranging the stages of a butterfly's life cycle in the correct order. Students will be able to put the different stages of the butterfly’s life cycle in the correct order using the Kidspiration software. This lesson plan gave us ideas on the type of art work that we could use with the students.
 * 4) Butterfly Unit - Life Cycles of Butterflies Hotchalk Lesson Plan – The objectives of this lesson are that the children will learn the meaning of the word metamorphosis, recognize the stages in a butterfly's life cycle, be able to classify butterflies by type, color, and food, and learn to ask questions to further their knowledge.This lesson plan helped us decide what would be the appropriate questions to ask the children during and after the lesson.
 * 5) Butterfly Unit - From Caterpillar to Butterfly Hotchalk Lesson Plan

__**Online Collaborative Writing Assignment**__ [] [|http://samanimation.pbworks.com/Life+Science+(Biology)] Wikis can be used in collaboration with other teachers to help formulate lessons for the class. Teachers could also get ideas from other teachers about different types of lessons.
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 * Group Definition of** **blogs****:**

[Blogs are used by people to communicate with each other. Many teachers use blogs so that they can communicate with their students.Teachers can utilize blogs to give homework assignments and to even share students grades with their parents.]


 * Group Definition of wikis:**

[Wikis is a software that was created for online collaborative writing.On wikis people can read, write and edit information. Blogs and wikis are very good and helpful resources of information.


 * How could Wikis and/or Weblogs be used in your lesson plan?**

The class could have the information on a wiki page that their parents could access and see what they are doing. Weblogs could be used so we could post each stage of the life cycle of the butterfly and we could list the class responses to what they are observing.


 * Lesson Plan**



Name: Butterfly Quiz __** a. **** first **
 * Test Questions**
 * [[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/ADMINI%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/09/clip_image002.gif width="125" height="102"]] Circle the correct answer. **
 * 1. **** The butterfly goes through how many stages? **
 * a. **** 8 **
 * b. **** 4 **
 * c. **** 2 **
 * 2. **** The butterfly is the __stage.__ **
 * b. **** fourth **
 * c. **** third **
 * 3. **** Butterflies hatch from **__**.**
 * a. **** eggs **
 * b. **** trees **
 * c. **** being born alive **
 * 4. **** Butterflies have __ wings. **
 * a. **** 8 **
 * b. **** 12 **
 * c. **** 4 **
 * 5. **** What is the second stage of the butterfly? **
 * a. **** baby butterfly **
 * b. **** caterpillar **
 * c. **** chrysalis **


 * [Please copy and paste your assessment questions into [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png width="32" height="32" link="http://terminus.wikispaces.com/file/view/test_item_template.doc"]] [|test_item_template.doc]] **

The diagram below shows the life cycle of a frog. Four stages of // development are labeled // A //, // B // , // C // , and // D //. // Which letter shows the adult stage of development? // A // A // B // B // C // C // D // D //

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