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Science · Ages 5–8 · 15 minutes

Life Cycle: Put Butterfly Stages in Order

A four-stage butterfly sequence gives children an accurate, concrete model for ordering changes in one familiar animal.

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Life Cycle: Put Butterfly Stages in Order

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Today I am practising: sequencing egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and adult butterfly stages

1

Put egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and adult butterfly in order.

2

Draw an arrow from caterpillar to chrysalis.

3

Circle the stage that eats and grows quickly.

4

Write one visible change between caterpillar and adult.

5

Label the adult stage.

6

Tell an adult the stage that comes after an egg.

Grown-up guide
  1. Use chrysalis for a butterfly and explain it is a protected changing stage.
  2. Read each stage name aloud before sequencing if decoding is not the goal.
  3. Emphasize that a caterpillar changes into a butterfly; it does not turn into a different species.