I had the honor of working at a nature center for nearly a decade coaching teachers to use nature as a vehicle to teach science through authentic and place-based experiences. I am now a nature preschool teacher by day and content creator by night sharing my love of science and ELA with other educators. Let's make science a priority in your classroom by making it more approachable, digestible, and enjoyable!

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Butterflies with Orange and Other Adaptations for Kindergarten and 3rd Grade [Ep. 78]

78. Butterflies with Orange and Other Adaptations for Kindergarten and 3rd Grade

Activities about butterflies with orange and other adaptations

Summer is the time that butterflies shine! It’s when they can be found as eggs, caterpillars, chrysalides, and adults. It also happens to be when many of us don’t have learners to enjoy them… but that’s ok! We’re going to talk today about activities to investigate butterflies with orange and other adaptations, but you’re going to come back to this episode when you’ve got your learners back and you’re ready to use these activities.

In this episode, we’ll talk about activities to investigate butterflies with orange and other adaptations for kindergarteners and 3rd graders. I’ll share the standard that inspired the activity, how they relate to butterflies with orange and other adaptations for kindergarteners and 3rd graders, and descriptions of how to use the activity with your learners.

In this episode, I discuss the following standards connected to butterflies with orange and other adaptations:

Kindergarten: K-ESS3-1: Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.
3rd Grade: 3-LS3-1: Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.