Students will love learning all about butterflies with this creative and hands-on activity pack! Butterflies are found in almost every place on Earth! There's a good chance that you have seen a beautiful orange butterfly fluttering along gracefully. It was probably a monarch butterfly!
This activity pack includes everything you need to teach all about butterflies!
A DIGITAL version of this unit for Google Classroom is available.
This unit includes:
✔Reading passages all about butterflies: monarch butterflies and six other types
✔Comprehension questions
✔Life Cycle of a Butterfly
✔Parts of a Butterfly
There are several engaging student activities to complement this butterflies unit of study including:
✔3-D Butterfly Craft
✔Cut-n-Sort with Hidden Words (to compare 3 types of butterflies)
✔Life Cycle Diagram
✔Parts of a Butterfly
✔Types of Butterflies
✔Butterflies Flip Booklet
✔Vocabulary Photo Posters
✔Spotlight on Vocabulary
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There are three main activities in this unit:
Reading:
Read the passages about monarch butterflies and answer the questions on the organizers.
Hands-on Activities:
Cut-n-Sort with Hidden Words
1. Cut out the 15 facts.
2. Sort the facts for the correct animal: monarch butterfly, gray whale, grizzly bear.
3. Glue them under the correct type of butterfly so that they spell out a hidden word.
Butterflies Flip Book:
Answer the questions on each page of the flip book. Then cut, color, and assemble the booklet. Flipbooks are an excellent center activity for students to show what they know.
Vocabulary Activities:
Print out the vocabulary posters in color or black and white. Post them on a bulletin board or around the classroom. Make copies of the Spotlight on Vocabulary. Have students write the definition or to write a sentence using the word.
There are two different versions included:
One has an empty box for students to draw their own illustrations related to the word.
One has an image for them to color and visualize.
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