Butterflies: Mini Thematic Unit Plan

Here is a useful pack of Lesson notes to help you teach a mini thematic unit plan about butterflies.

The Butterflies Thematic unit Plan pack is ideal for a mini spring topic. Use our Lesson notes to help you plan lessons around science, art and English.

Teaching notes include:

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

• Links to the UK National Curriculum for Science

• 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:

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

• Label the parts of a butterfly

• Recording sheets for observations of a butterfly and a caterpillar

• Reading comprehension exercises

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

• Decorated writing sheets

Display resources:

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

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

What is included?

1 pdf containing the above: 36 pages

Who is the butterflies thematic mini unit plan for:

Teachers,

Home-educators

Parents

Anyone!!!