Life cycle - Monarch Butterly Video
Added: 07 Jul 2016
Contributor:
Cliodhna Ryan
Resource type:
Audio / Video
Time lapse video showing the life cycle. The complete lifecycle of the Monarch butterfly from a tiny caterpillar hatching from an egg, through metamorphosis, to glorious adult butterfly. Filmed with microscopic cameras and time-lapse photography.
How it maps to the curriculum
- in
- SESE Science
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plants and Animals
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become aware of animals and plants of other environments
- become aware that animals and plants undergo seasonal change in appearance or behaviour
- observe growth and change in some living things
Suggestions for use: Set questions for pupils to answer from the video. Play video to class. Review questions. Alternatively; set up rotation stations with a video on various living thing life-cycles for pupils to look at and observe. At each station have a recording sheet/padlet for pupils to add facts too which they learn from the video clips on various living things.
