The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

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• The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

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The learner will

• be able to name and identify the four
• stages of a butterflys life cycle
• write a paragraph addressing the information from
  this presentation

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The First Stage of a Butterfly's Life.

• The egg is the first stage of a butterflys
• life.

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• The eggs are laid in a safe location on or near
  the plants that the caterpillar will eat.

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The Second Stage of a Butterflys Life

• The second stage is the larva or caterpillar.

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The Second Stage of a Butterflys Life

• This is a picture of a real caterpillar in its
  natural habitat.

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• The larva eats constantly and grows quickly.

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The Third Stage of a Butterflys Life

• The chrysalis or pupa is the hard covering
  formed around the larva.
• Inside this covering, the pupa changes

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The Third Stage of a Butterflys Life

• This is an actual picture of a pupa.

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The Last Stage of a Butterflys Life.

• The final stage is the pupa breaking open an
  adult butterfly emerges.

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Metamorphosis

• The development from an egg, to larva, to pupa,
  and adult butterfly is metamorphosis.

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• Think about what youve learned. Now you will
  write a paragraph about the information you
  learned from this presentation. I have given you
  a topic sentence to get started. You may use
  your own topic sentence if you like.

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Use one sparkle word
Use a transition word
There are four stages of a butterflys life
Use three sparkle words
Use one transition word, and one sparkle word,