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I choose animal Life cycle because it was one of my favorite lessons that I learned in elementary school. Learning about the animal life cycle is such an important lesson to learn as it teaches students about how things grow and change overtime. it also teaches students about life from birth-death.  Animal life cycle can be found in the 1st grade curriculum.

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Students will be able to answer these questions:  Why  organisms change as they go through their life cycles? How organisms change over time and How do individual differences occur within species of living things?

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National Geographic Readers: Caterpillar to Butterfly

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Butterflies are all around us. It's hard to believe these majestic insects with impressive wingspans and beautifully colored and patterned wings were once creepy crawly caterpillars. How in the world does this transformation happen? This Level 1 Reader gives kids an up-close look at exactly how a...

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar: board book & CD

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Amazon.com: The Very Hungry Caterpillar: board book & CD: 9780399247453: Carle, Eric, Carle, Eric: Books

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Website Synopsis

This website is filled with information. This website offers a great description of all of the stages of a butterfly. This will help greatly with students understanding of what a life cycle is and how organisms change throughout there life.

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Butterfly Life Cycle

The butterfly and moth develop through a process called metamorphosis. This is a Greek word that means transformation or change in shape.

Insects have two common types of metamorphosis. Grasshoppers, crickets, dragonflies, and cockroaches have incomplete metamorphosis. The young (called a nymph) usually look like small adults but without the wings.

Butterflies, moths, beetles, flies and bees have complete metamorphosis. The young (called a larva instead of a nymph) is very different from the adults. It also usually eats different types of food.

There are four stages in the metamorphosis of butterflies and moths: egg, larva, pupa, and adult.

Egg

Eggs are laid on plants by the adult female butterfly. These plants will then become the food for the hatching caterpillars.

Eggs can be laid from spring, summer or fall. This depends on the species of butterfly. Females lay a lot of eggs at once so that at least some of them survive.

Butterfly eggs can be very small.

Caterpillar: The Feeding Stage

The next stage is the larva. This is also called a caterpillar if the insect is a butterfly or a moth.

The job of the caterpillar is to eat and eat and eat. As the caterpillar grows it splits its skin and sheds it about 4 or 5 times. Food eaten at this time is stored and used later as an adult.

Caterpillars can grow 100 times their size during this stage. For example, a monarch butterfly egg is the size of a pinhead and the caterpillar that hatches from this tiny egg isn't much bigger. But it will grow up to 2 inches long in several weeks.

Pupa: The Transition Stage

When the caterpillar is full grown and stops eating, it becomes a pupa. The pupa of butterflies is also called a chrysalis.

Depending on the species, the pupa may suspended under a branch, hidden in leaves or buried underground. The pupa of many moths is protected inside a coccoon of silk.

This stage can last from a few weeks, a month or even longer. Some species have a pupal stage that lasts for two years.

It may look like nothing is going on but big changes are happening inside. Special cells that were present in the larva are now growing rapidly. They will become the legs, wings, eyes and other parts of the adult butterfly. Many of the original larva cells will provide energy for these growing adult cells.

Adult: The Reproductive Stage

The adult stage is what most people think of when they think of butterflies. They look very different from the larva. The caterpillar has a few tiny eyes, stubby legs and very short antennae. The adults have long legs, long antennae, and compound eyes. They can also fly by using their large and colorful wings. The one thing they can't do is grow.

The caterpillar's job was to eat. The adult's job is to mate and lay eggs. Some species of adult butterflies get energy by feeding on nectar from flowers but many species don't feed at all.

Flying comes in handy. The adult female can easily fly from place to place to find the right plant for its eggs. This is important because caterpillars can't travel far.

Most adult butterflies live only one or two weeks, but some species hibernate during the winter and may live several months.

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Butterfly Life Cycle The butterfly and moth develop through a process called metamorphosis. This is a Greek word that means transformation or change in shape. Insects have two common types of metamorphosis. Grasshoppers, crickets, dragonflies, and cockroaches have incomplete metamorphosis. The young (called a nymph) usually look like small adults but without the wings.

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Non Fiction Book                                                   National Geographic Readers: Caterpillar to Butterfly by  Laura Marsh                                                            National geographic Kids:                             Illustrated edition (April 10, 2012)         

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Non Fiction Book                                                   National Geographic Readers: Caterpillar to Butterfly by  Laura Marsh                                                            National geographic Kids:                             Illustrated edition (April 10, 2012)         

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Non Fiction Synopsis

This book shows and tells lots of facts about a butterfly's life cycle. This book shows us all of the stages a butterfly goes through to become a butterfly. it talks about each stage in depth of Egg, Caterpillar, Pupa, Butterfly and tells what each stage does. It not only talks about the a stages a butterfly goes through but also shows us multiple of different species of butterfly.

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Fiction Book                                                                                       The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle                         1969 children's picture book illustrated by Eric Carle

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Fiction Book                                                                                       The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle                         1969 children's picture book illustrated by Eric Carle

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Fiction Synopsis

The very Hungry Caterpillar is a great book for so many reasons. This book is about how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly with a fun twist on it by showing all of the foods that the caterpillar eats. it then proceeds to show how after it eats all the food that it turns into a beautiful butterfly. This book is very engaging with so many colorful vibrate pictures.