Ohio Plants and Animals Project Monarch Butterfly Teachers

Ohio Plants and Animals Project Monarch Butterfly Teacher’s Link Lesson Plan Monarchs Migrations in Ohio Student’s Link Ohio Content Standards Other Book Titles For Monarch Butterfly Power. Point for Lesson Videos

Life Cycle The four stages of the Monarch Butterfly: Egg Caterpillar Pupa Adult Butterfly

Egg Female Monarchs lay their eggs on a milkweed leaves. When the egg hatches, it is a caterpillar

Caterpillar The caterpillar hatches from its egg and eats it. The caterpillar loses its old skin four times as it grows

Pupa The caterpillar turns into a pupa. By hanging on a leaf Pupa is a hard covering the caterpillar lives

Adult Butterfly After the caterpillar leaves the pupa It becomes a butterfly Complete Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly Home

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Teacher Links Ohio Content Standard: Life Science Living things have basic needs, which are met by obtaining materials from the physical environment. Science Inquiry and Applications: Plan and conduct simple investigations Activity for Life Cycle Lesson Butterfly Life Cycle Craft Other Activity Ideas for This lesson Butterfly Printouts and Classroom Activities National Geographic Kids- Monarch Butterfly Home

Video Links Complete Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly Monarch Butterflies Video by National Geographic Kids Home

Other Book Titles Frost, Helen, and Leonid Gore. Monarch and Milkweed. New York: Atheneum for Young Readers, 2008. Print. Gibbons, Gail. Monarch Butterfly. New York: Holiday House, 1989. Print. Hamilton, K. R. The Butterfly Book: A Kid's Guide to Attracting, Raising, and Keeping Butterflies. Santa Fe, NM: John Muir Publications, 1997. Print. Lepthien, Emilie U. Monarch Marsh, Laura F. Great Migrations. Washington, D. C. : National Geographic, 2010. Print. Pringle, Laurence P. , and Bob Marstall. An Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly. New York: Orchard, 1997. Print. Schwartz, David M. , and Dwight Kuhn. Monarch Butterfly. Milwaukee, WI: G. Stevens, 2001. Print. Zemlicka, Shannon, and Simon Smith. Eggs, Legs, Wings: A Butterfly Life Cycle. Mankato, MN: Capstone, 2011. Print. Butterflies. Chicago: Childrens, 1989. Print Home

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