Butterflies and Moths

Welcome to the Butterflies and Moths Webquest

This was created for first graders wo are learning about Butterflies.

Please click on a link to the left to proceed

During the webquest you will learn:

• stages of a butterfly's life cycle
• differences between a moth and a butterfly
• skills to navigate a website
• learn how to print pictures and articles off the internet

You will use skills you have learned:

• writing sentences
• using adjectives
• ordering pictures

First Activity: The life cycle of a butterfly

• Watch the video below to learn about the life cycle of a butterfly.
• Click here to review the life cycle of a butterfly.
• Click here to print out a butterfly life cycle coloring poster.
• Click here to print out butterfly life cycle sequence cards. Color the cards, cut them out and glue them in order on a piece of construction paper.

If you need help printing the papers, ask your teacher.


Second Activity: Writing about butterflies

• Click here to visit a web site with wonderful photographs of the different stages of a butterfly's life cycle.
• Click on each picture to see a larger view.
• Choose one picture you would like to write about.
• Click here to print out a paper to write at least three sentences about the picture you chose from the web site. Be sure to use adjectives! You can use the papers you printed from the first activity to help you spell some words that you need.

Third Activity: Differences between butterflies and moths

• Click here to read a comparison of butterflies and moths. You may print this if you would like to.
• Choose one comparison you would like to illustrate for our class book. Click here to print out the papers you will use.

Congratulations!
You have completed the Butterfly Webquest.
You should now be an expert on the life cycle of a butterfly!

Below are some fun butterfly activities for you to try.

Butterfly Coloring Pages
Print one of these butterflies and color it however you would like!

Butterfly Maze
Can you help the butterflies find their way to a milkweed plant so they can lay their eggs?

Butterfly Jigsaw Puzzle
Click and drag the pieces of this puzzle to see a beautiful monarch butterfly.

MORE Butterfly Jigsaw Puzzles
Choose from several puzzles to play online or download to your computer!

Butterfly Memory Match
Play an online version of this fun memory game.

Many thanks to the following:

BillyBear4Kids.com
A wonderful site for kids with many, many resources.

Enchanted Learning.com
An online dream for teachers! This site has terrific learning tools on many topics.

Graphic Garden
Without Helena's marvelous graphics, this webquest would not be nearly as pretty!

Webquest Portal
Would you like to create your own webquest or just learn more about them? This is the site for you!

Learners This webquest was designed for first grade students. It could easily be adapted for younger or older students. For example, a kindergarten student could dictate a sentence about a butterfly picture while a second grader could write a story about one of the butterfly pictures. Teachers could simply choose to use some activities from this webquest as a whole group classroom activity.
PA State Standards This webquest addresses the following Pennsylvania State Standards in  Science/Technology and Language Arts:
3.1.4.A – Know the similarities and differences of living things. Identify life processes (e.g., growth, digestion, reaction to environment) of living things. Know that some organisms have similar external characteristics (e.g., anatomical characteristics appendages, type of covering, body segments).
3.8.4.C – Illustrate patterns that regularly occur and reoccur in nature. Identify observable patterns (e.g., growth patterns in plants, crystal shapes in minerals, climate, structural patterns in bird feathers). Use knowledge of natural patterns to predict next occurrences.
1.4.3.A - Write narrative pieces (poems, stories, plays)
1.4.3.B - Write informational pieces(descriptions, letters, reports, instructions)using illustrations when relevant.
1.5.3.B - Write using well-developed content, appropriate for the topic.
1.1.3.E - Acquire a reading vocabulary by identifying and correctly using words (e.g., antonyms, synonyms, categories of words).
General Information I chose to create this webquest as a complement to the story "I Am a Butterfly", found in our Harcourt reading series.
There are several ways your students can complete this webquest if you feel a webquest is too sophisticated for your students to complete independently:

• partner up with an older student
• work with a parent volunteer
• follow step by step directions as a whole class in the computer lab
• use an LCD projector for whole class viewing while the teacher navigates

• allow students to complete the webquest at home