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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Learning Path

By AM O'Brien

Literacy: Retelling the story. Sequencing the parts of the story. Maths: Days of the week. Counting food. Ordering numbers. Visual Arts: Scissors skills. Construction. SESE: Lifecyle of the butterfly.
9 resources in this Learning Path

1

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Animated Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY Added: 04 Jul 2018 Contributor: Kathleen Dunne Resource type: Audio / Video

In the internationally acclaimed The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a tiny caterpillar eats and eats…and eats his way through the week.
Taken from The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories collection. Based on Eric Carle's picture book.

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How it maps to the curriculum

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SESE Science

Strand: Living Things

Strand unit: Plants and Animals

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

  • become aware that animals and plants undergo seasonal change in appearance or behaviour
  • observe growth and change in some living things
Asset type: Video
Language: English
Rights: All rights reserved
Special Needs:

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Eric Carle reads The Very Hungry Caterpillar

https://www.smore.com/z78v-eric-car...ce=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Added: 21 Jul 2015 Contributor: Yvonne Whelan Resource type: Audio / Video

This website has several stories available to view including The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Grouchy Ladybird and The Tiny Seed.

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How it maps to the curriculum

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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: The life cycle of the butterfly.

Asset type: Online Resource
Language: English
Rights: All rights reserved
Special Needs:

3

How it maps to the curriculum

in
English

Strand: Reading

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

  • engage in shared reading activities
  • experience the reading process being modelled

Suggestions for use: Shared reading activity

Asset type: Online Resource
Language: English
Rights: Attribution Creative Commons
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4

How it maps to the curriculum

in
English

Strand: Reading

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

  • associate print with enjoyment through listening to stories and poems read aloud
  • perceive reading as a shared, enjoyable experience
  • pursue and develop individual interests through engagement with books
Asset type: Online Resource
Language: English
Rights: All rights reserved
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5

Caterpillar Ordering

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering Added: 29 Jul 2015 Contributor: Suzanne Tiernan Resource type: Assessment / Game / App/software

An interactive game to develop ordering and sequencing skills.

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Mathematics

Strand: Number

Strand unit: Comparing & Ordering

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

  • order sets of objects by number
Asset type: Online Resource
Language: English
Rights: All rights reserved
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6

Caterpillar Art Ideas

https://www.pinterest.com/explore/caterpillar-craft/ Added: 20 Jul 2016 Contributor: Elisa Miriam Mc Cann Resource type: Lesson Plan

Arts and craft ideas for The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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Visual Arts

Strand: Print

Strand unit: Making Prints

Asset type: Online Resource
Language: English
Rights: All rights reserved
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7

Butterfly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jl8P0w6X0g Added: 18 Aug 2015 Contributor: Mairead Mulcahy Resource type: Audio / Video

Butterfly life cycle

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How it maps to the curriculum

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SESE Science

Strand: Living Things

Strand unit: Plants and Animals

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

  • observe growth and change in some living things
  • recognise and identify the external parts of living things
Asset type: Video
Language: English
Rights: All rights reserved
Special Needs:

8

Life cycle - Monarch Butterly Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AUeM8MbaIk 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.

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How it maps to the curriculum

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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.

Asset type: Video
Language: English
Rights: All rights reserved
Special Needs:

9

Lifecycle of a Butterfly and Moths - Information

http://www.kidsbutterfly.org/life-cycle Added: 06 Jul 2016 Contributor: sarah Hardiman Resource type: Reference

Lots of real life pictures on the life Cycle of butterflies and moths with information.

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How it maps to the curriculum

1-2
SESE Science

Strand: Living Things

Strand unit: Plants and Animals

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

  • become familiar with the life cycles of common plants and animals

Suggestions for use: Use images as a comparison between the life-cycle of a frog, Ask pupils how is the life-cycle of a butterfly different than the life-cycle of a frog?

Asset type: Online Resource
Language: English
Rights: All rights reserved
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