Mrs. Cowan's Butterfly Webquest

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Introduction:

Greetings one and all! You will be going on a wonderful and magical journey to a whole new world. You will be discovering the world of butterflies. You are going on a butterfly catching adventure and your job is to be a butterfly fact catcher and catch all the information you can about butterflies.

Task:

By the end of this web quest, you will be able to explain the life cycle of the butterfly, describe where they live, describe what they eat, name their body parts and a few other interesting facts. You will even discover there are many different kinds of butterflies all around the world.

Duties/Process:

During your butterfly investigation you will:

Examine the life cycle of the butterfly.

Describe where butterflies live.

Describe what butterflies like to eat.

Name the body parts of the butterfly.

Visit 3 websites to research additional information on butterflies.

Write a report describing all that you have learned about butterflies and illustrate.

Your Job:

1. Visit Zoom School and see if you can figure out the four stages of development of a butterfly. Write them down and turn them in to Mrs. Cowan.

2. Visit Enchanted Learning to see if you can figure out what you need to feed a butterfly. Write at least 4 things that feed butterflies and submit to Mrs. Cowan.

3. Print the following link, click here, and label the parts of the butterfly. Submit it to Mrs. Cowan for evaluation.

4. Visit any of the links below to gather additional information on the butterfly.

Butterflies of North America	Butterflies of the Field Museum	World Almanac for Kids: Butterflies
The London Butterfly House	All About Butterflies	The Butterfly Website
Monarchs of the Big Sur	Bug Bios	Children's Butterfly Site
Monarchs and Migration	Virtual Zoo	The Butterfly House
Insecta Inspecta World	Butterfly Room	Butterfly School
Billy Bears Butterflies and Bugs	Butterflies of Alaska	Butterflies North and South

5. Write a report describing everything you have learned about butterflies. Be sure to include a picture. Submit it to Mrs. Cowan so that she may scan it and post your wonderful work.

Good Luck!

Rubric/Evaluation:

Beginning
1
Developing
2
Good Job
3
Outstanding
4

4 stages of development You named 1 stage. You named 2 stages. You named 3 stages. You named 4 stages.

Feeding a Butterfly
You named 1 thing that feeds a butterfly.

You named 2 things that feeds a butterfly.

You named 3 things that feeds a butterfly.

You named 4 things that feeds a butterfly.

Label the butterfly
You miss labeled 4 or more parts.

You miss labeled 3 parts.

You miss labeled 2 parts.

You correctly labeled the butterfly.

Report Your report includes some facts about the butterfly. Your report makes sense and includes most required facts about the butterfly. Your report makes sense, is neat and includes all required facts about the butterfly. Your report makes sense, is neat and includes many extra facts about insect. You have exceeded the standard.

Mrs. Cowan will assess your work and send you a score. Be sure to turn in your report to Mrs. Cowan so that she may post it and share your work with the world.

Conclusion:

Congratulations! You are now an expert butterfly watcher!

Some fun things to do:

1. Use the following words at Puzzlemaker to create your own word search, crossword, etc.

insect wing scale caterpillar butterfly egg grasshopper metamorphosis larva adult head antennae thorax habitat entomologist nectar abdomen chrysalis invertebrate

2. Complete a craft found at Enchanted Learning.

3. Visit Mrs. Cowan's Very Hungry Caterpillar page for fun stuff to do.

4. Write to Eric Carle, author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

5. Complete a craft found at DLTK.

6. Play Tic Tac Butterfly with Billy Bear.

7. Play some butterfly games at Primary Games.

Standards:

Sunshine State Science Standards: Pre-K thru 2nd

Processes of Life Standard 1: The student describes patterns of structure and function in living things. (SC.F.1.1)

1. knows the basic needs of all living things.

2. knows how to apply knowledge about life processes to distinguish between living and nonliving things.

3. describes how organisms change as they grow and mature.