Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Butterfly Life Cycle

Subject Area

Science

Grade(s)

3

Overview

Students explore how butterflies change and grow throughout their life cycle in this interactive lesson from NATURE. Through captivating video content and interactive activities, students will discover the amazing transformation process from a tiny caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly.

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    Science (2015) Grade(s): 3

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    Create representations to explain the unique and diverse life cycles of organisms other than humans (e.g., flowering plants, frogs, butterflies), including commonalities such as birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

    Unpacked Content

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    Vocabulary

    • Create
    • Explain
    • Representations
    • Unique
    • Diverse
    • Commonalities
    • Life cycles
    • Organisms
    • Birth
    • Growth
    • Reproduction
    • Death

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Organisms are born, grow, reproduce and die in a pattern known as a life cycle.
    • Organisms have unique and diverse life cycles.
    • An organism can be classified as either a plant or an animal.
    • There is a causal direction of the cycle (e.g., without birth, there is no growth; without reproduction, there are no births).

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Create representations to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
    • Explain the unique and diverse life cycles of organisms other than humans.
    • Explain commonalities of organisms such as birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Patterns of change can be used to make predictions about the unique life cycles of organisms.

    Scientific and Engineering Practices

    Developing and Using Models

    Crosscutting Concepts

    Patterns
    Link to Resource

    CR Resource Type

    Interactive/Game

    Resource Provider

    PBS
    Accessibility

    Accessibility

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    Custom
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