It is a good outdoor lesson to show students that all living things grow, need food, and reproduce. This is a lesson plan with directions, an overhead of plant parts to copy and a Hint Strips quiz you can copy. There are many additional activities that pertain to plants at this site. Excellent teacher resource. They have an opportunity to look at six different bug smears on a car window and determine which of six insect types the smear represent.
Students can use their knowledge of measurement and observation to make their hypotheses.
Outsanding - This web site is a very informational, student friendly web site. It contains links to butterfly animations, as well as, other interactive links. Contains pictures and descriptions of lifecycles of butterfly and moth. An excellent launching pad for butterfly research. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute invites curious kids to explore biology on screen, off screen, and in between.