Butterfly Habitat & Life Cycle
LESSON PLANS

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Teacher Resources/Supplementary Materials (supp_mat.pdf 177Kb)
	Handout: “Butterfly Habitat & Life Cycle” Helpful Hints Sample Letter to Parents Material List Pre-Test
Introductory Activity (intro_lesson.pdf 97Kb)
Lesson 1 Creating a Butterfly Garden Habitat (lesson1.pdf 69Kb)
	Planning to Garden & Habitat, Planning to Plant, Starting Seeds, Planting a Garden, Nectar Plants for Butterflies, and Food Plants for Caterpillars
Lesson 2 Butterfly Life Cycle (lesson2.pdf 391Kb)
	Life Cycle, Making Life Cycle Picture Card, Book, & Wheel
Lesson 3 The Egg (lesson3.pdf 42Kb)
	Where to locate them; identify the butterfly by its egg
Lesson 4 The Caterpillar or Larva (lesson4.pdf 149Kb)
	Parts of a caterpillar, installs, building a cage to protect from predators
Lesson 5 The Chrysalis or Pupa (lesson5.pdf 348Kb)
	Where butterflies come from, identify the butterfly by its pupa
Lesson 6 The Butterfly or Adult (lesson6.pdf 62Kb)
	Butterfly rearing and observing techniques, catching butterflies and releasing them
Vocabulary (vocabulary.pdf 25Kb)
Resources (resources.pdf 33Kb)
Web Resources / WebQuests
EDITED BY Glen F. Graves ILLUSTRATED BY Adele Bentsen Penny Murphree SPECIAL THANKS TO Sandra Farris County Extension Agent Family & Consumer Service AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM BROUGHT TO YOU BY The Leadership Center in Cooperation with Texas Cooperative Extension The Texas A&M University System Harris County Master Gardner’s Association Houston Area Outreach Coalition May, 2002