Science for Kindergarten: Butterflies Unit

Here is a Kindergarten Science project to help you teach about butterflies!

The Butterflies Kindergarten Science project is ideal for a mini spring topic. Use our Lesson notes to help you plan lessons around science, art and English.

I like to help teachers use creatures that are commonly seen by children to explore the natural world, which is the building block of science.

By using creatures with which children are familiar, we can cover much of the science curriculum in a way that the children will remember. Science lessons can be transformed as both pupils and teachers become engaged in the project, asking questions to stimulate further enquiry.

Teaching notes include:

• Raising butterflies from eggs: a wonderful thing to do to really help bring science to life for your pupils.

• Helpful notes about each stage of the butterfly life cycle - help you to feel like an expert; we have done the research for you!

• Suggested questions to stimulate scientific enquiry.

• Art activities

• English Activities

Science and English worksheets:

By joining subjects together in a science-based project, we teach young children the way they learn - holistically!

• Four pictures to order the life cycle of a butterfly with matching vocabulary

• Matching words to pictures activity at 2 levels

• Anatomy of a butterfly

• Recording sheets for observations of a butterfly and a caterpillar

• Reading comprehension exercises

• 2 poems with comprehension exercises to follow each differentiated; 2 ability levels

• Decorated writing sheets

Display resources:

A good display is vital to capture children's interest and make the classroom a vibrant learning environment. Our resources help you to make such a display:

• Photographs, Labels for each part of the butterfly life cycle,

• Butterfly life cycle mat, to help children with their writing, or for display.

• A butterfly life cycle poster (A4)

Who is the butterfly's Kindergarten Science project for?

• Teachers,

• Home-educators

• Parents

• Anyone!!!

What is included in the Butterflies Kindergarten Science project?

1 pdf containing the above: 40 pages