Ask students: Where did the egg come from? What changes did the caterpillar go through on its way to becoming a butterfly?.

Read Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar and have students explore the tactile models of the developmental stages of a butterfly: egg, pupa, caterpillar and butterfly.

Tri-wall or heavy cardboard circle to use as the base of the 3-D model (one per student).

Table top Lazy Susan or turning device to simulate a cycle.

Materials to represent the different stages of a butterfly’s life cycle: pipe cleaners, toilet paper rolls, small nylon tubes, cotton balls, coffee filters, tissue paper, clothes pins, pom-poms.

Graphic representation of a butterfly’s life cycle.

American Printing House for the Blind science overlays and TTT overlays if available.

Toy sets can be purchased from Insect Lore.

Tactile models of the stages of a butterfly, a frog and a dragonfly.

The Life Stages cards can be used in the sequencing activity if Braille labels are added.ģ one-hour sessions and if possible, a field trip to a butterfly farm.

Students should have access to tactile models and overlays of the different stages in the life cycle of frogs, dragonflies and butterflies before viewing the Metamorphosis: Change of Plans video. Most of the activities detailed in this lesson plan can be done with visually impaired students if teachers adapt them using Resources for Teaching and Adapting Science Lessons for Students with Visual Impairments. Sequence the four stages of life of a butterfly.Understand that the details of life cycles vary from one organism to another and some change form dramatically on in the process of becoming an adult.

Understand that all animals have a life cycle that includes being born, developing into an adult, reproducing, and eventually dying.In this lesson, students learn the concept of metamorphosis in an organism’s life cycle by studying the growth and development of butterflies, frogs, and dragonflies/

Butterfly circle of life