Sixth graders observe and describe habitats within ecosystems, describe how organisms modify environment to meet their needs, and observe and identify characteristics that allow survival.

Young scholars investigate the monarch's searching behavior and ability to find food. They determine whether or not a caterpillar can find food in a simple Y-shaped maze. They record and graph or chart the data from several attempts...

In this printing practice worksheet, students practice tracing and writing the word butterfly, then color a picture. Worksheet has links to additional activities.

Students examine the techniques that companies use to sell their products.  In this consumerism lesson plan students create an ad for a company and create a handcrafted butterfly. 

Let's ask an expert. Scholars divide into groups to research and become experts on either ants or butterflies. Learners use task cards and text on their topic to complete a note catcher. At the end, they share their information with a...

Students are introduced to Scientific Inquiry and discover how to design an experiment that answers critical questions using butterflies as the topic. They design experiments that compare the number of species of butterflies in a vacant,...

Students participate in an investigation of winged organisms. Working with calipers, students measure the wing span of several butterflies from different areas. After recording their measurements, students use their data to explain...

Students remember the orderly changes of a butterfly by performing physical motions to a song.

Learners consider the habits of the monarch butterfly and predict the path it take as it migrates in the spring.

Students investigate the life cycle of a butterfly. They visit a butterfly expert who teaches her about the "tricks" caterpillars use to fool their enemies, the functions of the parts of a butterfly, and how to tag a butterfly.

In these counting practice worksheets, students count the number of butterflies on each card and circle or color in the number that corresponds to the number of butterflies.

Here is a wordsearch that has learners find 18 different organisms that are commonly-found in pond environments. The monarch butterfly, cotton grass, water flea, and the damesfly are just a few of the organisms found. Colorful and...

Thumbprints are fascinating! Here is a clever lesson that allows kids to discover that everyone has a unique thumbprint - no two are alike! They use magnifying glasses to closely observe their own, and someone else's thumbprints. Then,...

What are five amazing facts about you? Your best friend? Butterflies? The United States? The possibilities are endless with this worksheet!

"Float like a butterfly, and sting like a bee" with a resource about the greatest boxer of our generation. A short biographical reading passage introduces young readers to Muhammad Ali, and includes information about his early life...

From picture to words. Scholars analyze a picture of an ant and then list two facts they observed and any questions that may arise. Expert groups from the previous instructional activity then look at a diagram about either an ant or...

Let me draw you a picture. Scholars read a quote from Roger Tory Peterson and discuss his views on drawings. They then create their own drawings of an ant or butterfly to add to their science journals. 

Visit the Explorit Science Center for a quick, interactive quiz. There are five questions on this online quiz, and while they're all related to science, none of them are related to each other. For example, one question asks how many...

Make text-to-world connections between 1920s American history and The Great Gatsby. Upper graders share facts they researched about the 1920s the evening prior, view two video clips about F. Scott Fitzgerald, and then choose a book to...

In this 5 question insect activity, students label, draw, and circle correct answers about metamorphosis, mimics, and environments for insect survival.

Color these cute kiwis doing activities in the spring! Each page includes a kiwi flying a kite, catching butterflies, holding an ice cream cone, and rowing a boat.

Pupils study about butterfly and catepillar parts. Throughout the week, they use various notecards, overhead transperancies, books, and matching games to study about the part names. They are given a test to fill in blanks with the...

In this Spring learning exercise, students read a poem about a butterfly. Students color an illustration and underline rhyming words. Students also write the rhyming words and compose their own Spring poem.

Mimic the struggle of migratory pollinators. Pupils learn about the threats to pollinator species. They go on to enact a play demonstrating the hazards migratory pollinators experience. To finish,...