Lifecycles of Butterflies
Lesson 13
Using Our Data
Students will use their data concerning dates of changes in the life cycle to analyze the life cycle. This is why it is important to date science notebook pages or activity sheets in order to do this data analysis.
3. Lesson set up and Management
INQA: Scientific investigations are designed to gain knowledge about the natural world.
INQD: Simple instruments, such as magnifiers, thermometers, and rulers provide more information than scientists can obtain using only their unaided senses.
INQF: Scientists develop explanations, using observations (evidence) and what they already know about the world. Explanations should be based on evidence from investigations.
LS1B: Animals have life cycles that include being born, developing into children, adolescents, then adults, reproducing (which begins a new cycle), and eventually dying. The details of the life cycle are different for different animals.
Data can be used to answer questions.
3. Lesson set up and Management
Materials:
Students need all the written products from the unit. This may be the activity sheets they have completed or the science notebook entries they have made for each lesson. These written products will give them the data they need to draw conclusions about the length of life cycle stages. Activity Sheet 11, From Caterpillar to Butterfly, needs to be duplicated for each student if it is to be used.
Procedure:
Students will discuss the various data and observations they have collected throughout the unit. They will find dates for various changes that occurred in the butterflies' life cycle and compare the duration of the caterpillar stage with that of the chrysalis stage.
Make a practice of having students date every page of the science notebook. This will provide the date information they need to compare the stages.
Background Information: Students will look at the information they have collected throughout the unit. They will use math and the dates they have recorded to calculate the length of the life cycle.
Writing Support:
If students have been working on activity sheets rather than in a science notebook, have them assemble the pages into a booklet that is stapled, hole punched and fastened or stitched. Have students design a cover using the life cycle or original butterfly artwork.
Reading Support:
No reading support for this lesson.