Butterfly Life Cycle
Intern: Radwa Abdul Fattah Abu-zied
Mentor Teacher: Fiona Fraser
Grade Level: Grade one
Date: 28-05-2009
# of Students: 20 - 26
Time Frame: 50 minutes
Qatar Curriculum Standard
English standard: 1-4.3 Respond, with single-words or single-phrase answers, to yes/ no,
either/or and simple wh-type questions (where, when, what, who, how many) which elicit and
check key information:
- information given in pictures, stories, descriptions and rhymes.
- information about simple events and situations
Science standard: 1-4.1 Describe how the appearance of some common organisms change as
they age and with the seasons of the year.
Instructional Objective: (Measurable)
By the end of this lesson the students will be able to:
- Answer the teacher's orientation questions with 85% accuracy.
- Listen quietly to the teacher telling the story.
- Retell the very hungry caterpillar story with 85% correctly.
- Use the story puppets to retell the story with 85% accuracy.
- Reorder the story pictures with 90% accuracy.
- Name each stage of the caterpillar life cycle with correctly.
Materials:
"The very hungry caterpillar" story by Eric Carle.
Flashcards "a moon and one egg lay on a leaf, a sun and a caterpillar"
Story puppets "small caterpillar, apple, two pears, three plums, four strawberries, five
oranges, one piece of chocolate cake, ice cream cone, pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese,
one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, one
slice of watermelon, one green leaf, a big caterpillar, a cocoon, and a butterfly"
Five cycle life circle for the butterfly.
Three pictures of real caterpillars.
Three pictures of real cocoon.
Three pictures of a real butterfly.
Five copies of a story pictures.
Caterpillar game and a dice.
Worksheet #1 (25 copies)
Resources:
- Qatari Scheme of work for science grade one
- Lesson idea from and Worksheet #1
http://www.unco.edu/CETL/UDL/UDLclass/LauraMiller/The%20Very%20Hungry%20Caterp
illar%20Sequencing%20Lesson%20modified.doc
- Flashcards and caterpillar game from http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/cll/story/hungry.html
- Story puppets and Animals life cycle from
http://www.kizclub.com/storypatterns/caterpillar.pdf
- Story pictures from http://www.dltk-teach.com/t.asp?b=m&t=http://www.dltkteach.com/books/hungrycaterpillar/csequencing.gif
- Get the worksheets from:
Worksheet #2 http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SlecJxl-Th0/SZscFU0oGI/AAAAAAAAA8Y/rz8RcgP7aCw/s400/beginner+maze+16.bmp
TEACHING PROCEDURE
Activating Prior Knowledge / Focus:
The teacher will ask the students: What did you do yesterday? And listen to their
answers. Teacher will say, "What are the things that we do it every day?" Teacher will
give example of a daily routine. Teacher will say: "So we have things that happen to us
every day. Do you think we grow each day? What did you look like 6 years ago? The
students will answer they were babies and they grow up day after day".
The teacher will remind the students about the plant and how it grows? The student will
answer "that first it was a seed, then it grew some roots, a stem, some leaves and flower".
The teacher will ask the students: "What about the animals? Do they have things happen
to them everyday like us? Do they change over the time like us? Let us see what happens
to one of these animals as it grows. This is the caterpillar, and we will see if it changes
like us or not?
Teacher Strategies:
1- The teacher will say: We will hear this story two times. The first time I will read it and
you will just listen, then the second time, I will read it and this time, I will need your
help to tell the story.
2- The teacher will
- read the very hungry caterpillar story.
- re-tell the story with the student's help.
- give each student a puppet to demonstrate the story.
- ask the students to go back to their seats.
- give the students the story pictures to reorder.
- show real pictures on the data show of an egg lay on a leaf, a caterpillar, a cocoon and a
butterfly for the students to see.
- ask the students to name each stage of the caterpillar life cycle.
- give each group "the cycle life circle for the butterfly" to show them the first stage,
second stage, and the third and fourth stage of the butterfly life cycle.
- give the students worksheet #1
Student Activities:
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The students will listen to the teacher.
The students will:
listen to the story.
help the teacher retell the story.
each student will take a puppet to demonstrate the story.
go back to their seats.
re-order the story pictures.
see the real pictures on the data show for an egg lay on a leaf, a caterpillar, a cocoon
and a butterfly.
name each stage of the caterpillar life cycle.
take "the cycle life circle for the butterfly" to show the teacher the first stage, second
stage, third stage and fourth stage of the butterfly life cycle.
work individually on worksheet #1
Modifications / Differentiation
Higher achiever will have worksheet #2
Lower achiever will have some support with worksheet #1, cutting and re-ordering the
pictures of the butterfly life cycle.
Closure:
The teacher will ask the students to search on the internet for other animals that have similar
stages, the same as the butterfly life cycle, using the search word "animals life cycles". They
will print the pictures that they have found. The next time we will talk about the changes to
more organisms over time.
Assessment:
The teacher will have the students play the caterpillar game. Each student will re-tall a
sentence about the story.
Reflection is done after teaching the lesson:
Reflective Evaluation of Lesson:
Worksheet #1
Worksheet #2