Start teaching your students about the majestic butterfly lifecycle by sharing books like Madison and Hawkes’ Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly or The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Once a caterpillar has shed its skin four times, it enters its third stage: larva or pupal stage. Here it finds shelter and builds its protective covering […]
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The water cycle is an eternally ongoing cycle that connects all the water on Earth through evaporation, condensation and precipitation processes that play an integral part of daily life. Water is an invaluable resource, accounting for 60-75% of our bodyweight and necessary for our survival over three days without it. Furthermore, it helps regulate climate
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At its final stage, a caterpillar searches out a safe place and constructs an encasing called a chrysalis. Though this structure seems motionless at first glance, incredible processes are underway inside. Special butterfly cells transform into the wings, legs and eyes of adult butterflies in this demanding process, which may take between 1-14 months depending
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At the beginning of their lives, butterfly females lay eggs on leaves or stems. These tiny oval or cylindrical eggs come in various colours. Once an egg hatches, a larva (also known as a caterpillar) emerges and begins eating and growing through several growth stages called instars. Eggs A butterfly’s life cycle is one of
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A butterfly’s life cycle provides an excellent way to teach students about the stages of development found in all living things and introduce scientific vocabulary. Female butterflies lay their eggs on leaves. Within days, these eggs hatch into caterpillars that consume leaves while eating more and growing larger as their skin sheds many times before
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Plants grow to reproduce. To do this, they develop flowers which can be pollinated by insects; these then turn into seeds which continue the lifecycle and the process repeats itself. Seeds are dispersed through wind, water or animals to places where they can germinate. Once this occurs, their embryo begins growing roots and stems while
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Plants undergo a life cycle which includes stages such as germination, growth, flowering and seed formation. In this article we will focus on the flowering lifecycle. Once a seed reaches optimal conditions of moisture, warmth, and light, it sprouts into a seedling with roots growing down to anchor it into the earth, while stems extending
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Every plant goes through a cycle, from non-flowering ferns and mosses through flowering plants with pollination, fertilization and seed production. Each tree starts life as a seed packed full of everything it needs to germinate into an adult plant and flourish in its environment. Once germinated, these seeds can then be dispersed via various means
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Children across the world love butterflies with their vibrant colors and intricate patterns, as they follow them from Egg, Larva, Pupa to Adulthood in their life cycle. The larva consumes food all day and grows until it is time for its next transformation, creating a vessel called a chrysalis around itself to prepare for metamorphosis
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