By Melanie M.

For Grades 3-5

You're trapped! You beat your wings trying to free yourself . You break out from your chrysalis safe in a tree. You feel strange and different. You went from a fat caterpillar to a beautiful butterfly! What type of butterfly are you? Why are you able to fly?

1. You are a butterfly but what kind? Choose a butterfly you like.

2.Find out about your life cycle.

3. Find out if your butterfly is endangered or threatened. If so, when in the life cycle is it threatened and can you help save them?

4. Create a project to tell what your butterfly is like.

1. Choose a partner to work with that you can get along with.

2. Choose a butterfly you both like.

3. Take notes about their Life Cycle, list some needs for food and shelter so that you know how they survive or if they are being threatened.

4. Use books from your library or websites to get information on your Butterfly.

5. Decide how you want to show your information. Here are some ideas ; Posters, garden booklet, Slideshow, or a magazine.

6. Look for food for your butterfly to eat and don't forget to look for food for they caterpillar.

7. Look for where your butterfly lives and where it has it's young.

9. Start your project with your partner.

8. Don't forget some cool facts for your butterfly.9. Start your project with your partner.

10. Show your classmates what you and you partner can do together!

Here are some places where you can find information on your butterfly

www.enature.com 

www.enchantedlearning.com/subject/butterflies

Don't forget! your library can have useful information about your butterfly too!

When your teacher or someone else grades your work you want to have things that include:

Butterfly Iddentification-10 points

Host Plants-10 points

Paragraph explaining butterfly life cycle-10 points

Life Cycle- 10 points

Interesting facts-15 points

Response to Sources- 5 points

Improvement plan- 20 points

Creativity-10 points

Presentation-10 points

 Cool!!! You completed the task! What an Awesome job you and your partner did! You sure know your butterflies well! If you want to know or look at more butterflies just go to this website: www. FreeFoto.com. Or you always have your library! Hope you had lots and lots of fun!!!!!!!!

This is a photo of a house made just for butterflies.