Butterflies resources

Students are required to write the number of some parts in the life cycle of a butterfly into a diagram of the life cycle of a butterfly.

For this practical task students are assessed on their understanding of the life cycle of a butterfly by putting pictures (of eggs, caterpillar, pupa, emerging butterfly, and butterfly) into the correct sequential order and answering some questions.

Students answer two multiple-choice questions that look at the life cycle of butterflies and frogs.

Task: Answer questions about a monarch butterfly's life cycle. Assessment focus: insect life cycle. This resource includes an interactive infographic. You will need Adobe Flash Player to view it.

Task: Dictate what is observed from viewing a video clip of a monarch butterfly emerging from a chrysalis (answering a specific question), and sequence some photographs in the correct order. Assessment focus: observing and describing.

Task: Match insects to their adaptations for protection against enemies, and infer two ways stick insects are adapted for their protection against predators. Assessment focus: using observations to make suggestions about survival methods.

Task: Match vocabulary and definitions, and select why these terms are useful to know when thinking about butterflies at risk. Assessment focus: understanding science texts.

Task: Use information about differences between moths and butterflies to decide which category examples belong to, and identify what evidence was used. Assessment focus: observation, using evidence.