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Do you know what kind of butterfly is spreading its wings at the top of this page? Here’s a hint: It’s either a swallowtail or a monarch. They look alike. Butterflies are insects, so they all have six legs and scaly wings. But not all butterflies look or act the same.

Join the second grade students at Hannah Cole Primary to learn more about butterflies. Just follow the links on this pathfinder to explore the world of these amazing insects and the different community about butterflies. The following are links to help you research information to get a better understanding the amazing types of butterflies and their life cycle, migration, and different habitats.

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__[|Science Education - Degrees & Guides]__ ... Center "The Best Selection of K-12 Mathematics and Science Curriculum **Resources** on the Internet." - Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Environmental ... **resources** in print and on the Web. And in a fun activity for kids, print out our cricket and **butterfly** ...

[|Asian Studies - Degrees & Guides] ... 's Amazing Insects Photographed in the forests around Chiang Mai "The site contains photographs of insects including **butterflies**, moths, dragonflies and damselflies, flies, wasps, ants, caterpillars, cicadas, grasshoppers, mantids, bugs and beetles ...

[|Science Education - Degrees & Guides] ... bridges, as well as those who design the great structures." **Butterflies** North and South "This website was produced by Museums ... learn how to manage the lives of over two hundred **butterflies**. This includes breeding, feeding and maintaining the caterpillars

=__ eThemes : __= = Animals: Monarch Butterflies = These sites focus on monarch butterflies and their life cycle. Learn about their habitat, needs, and characteristics, and more. Includes a video clip, printouts, and photographs. There are also links to eThemes Resources on Butterflies and Monarch Migration, Missouri Butterflies, and Life Cycles for K-2 Grades.

Animals: Butterflies and Monarch Migration These are sites provide information on the life cycle, habitats, and behaviors of butterflies. View images and see the distribution of various butterfly species. Learn about wildlife migration and why it occurs. Several sites focus on monarch butterflies and their annual migration. An eMINTS WebQuest on monarch butterflies and their life cycle is linked. [|Butterflies and Moths of Missouri] This site has photographs and brief facts about butterfly species in Missouri.

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 * The Butterfly WebSite [[image:http://www.ipl.org/div/images/magnifier.gif width="12" height="14" align="left" caption="View" link="http://www.ipl.org/IPL/Display?key=res:lii-5881&layout=blank"]] ||
 * Contains "photos, species accounts, and combined maps for **butterflies** occurring in the conterminous U.S. and northern Mexico," articles, information for gardeners, links to related websites, and more ||


 * Children's Butterfly Site [[image:http://www.ipl.org/div/images/magnifier.gif width="12" height="14" align="left" caption="View" link="http://www.ipl.org/IPL/Display?key=res:lii-5873&layout=blank"]] ||
 * This site teaches children all about **butterflies** and moths with photographs, answers to frequently asked questions, links to other butterfly sites, and a coloring page. Maintained by the Big Sky Institute at Montana State University ||


 * Monarch Watch [[image:http://www.ipl.org/div/images/magnifier.gif width="12" height="14" align="left" caption="View" link="http://www.ipl.org/IPL/Display?key=res:lii-5874&layout=blank"]] ||
 * A site developed to further science education in elementary and secondary schools, written in easy-to-understand language, that investigates the migration of the Monarch butterfly. Included are photos of the butterfly, its larvae, pupae, roosts, and ...

__ Kathy Shrock's Guide forEducators __
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[|**The Butterfly Zone**] Offers a “Butterfly Guide,” information about a variety of butterflies, and how to attract butterflies to your garden. [|**All About Butterflies**] This Enchanted Learning site is a colorful combination of textual information and clearly labeled diagrams and pictures providing data on topics such as anatomy, species, senses, differences between butterflies and moths, and more. Especially useful is the illustrated dictionary of butterfly terms.

[|**Nature: Alien Empire**] This PBS Online site shows a terrific diagram of a worker bee that allows you to click on various body parts, both inside and out, to learn about their functions.

BrainPOP Jr. Game: Butterflies
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This interactive game forms part of a broader BrainPOP Jr. topic - The butterfly is an insect that goes through metamorphosis, and it goes through big changes. In this movie, you'll see how a caterpillar grows and transforms into an adult butterfly or moth. First, an adult butterfly lays eggs. Then a caterpillar or larva hatches from the egg. The caterpillar turns into a pupa, or chrysalis, and then becomes an adult butterfly! In this movie, you'll also learn about the parts of this insect, including the wings, antenna, and proboscis. you'll find out how butterflies can use camouflage to stay safe, or use bright colors and patterns to scare animals away.

Michigan 4-H Children's Garden: Butterfly Basics
[] This PDF document provides very general information about butterflies, moths and skippers. It covers anatomy, life cycle, common characteristics, and behavior. There is quite a bit of vocabulary that would have to be defined for younger students.

Explore Butterflies
==http://www.ansp.org/museum/butterflies/new_interac ... e/butterflies.html Explore the world of butterflies. Play the butterfly fact game, create a butterfly habitat, learn about the Monarch butterfly, and more using these colorful and

Missouri GLE’s [|1.2] Students will demonstrate within and integrate across all content areas the ability to conduct research to answer questions and evaluate information and ideas [|1.4] Students will demonstrate within and integrate across all content areas the ability to use technological tools and other resources to locate, select and organize information [|2.1] Students will demonstrate within and integrate across all content areas the ability to plan and make written, oral and visual presentations for a variety of purposes and audiences [|3] Students will acquire a solid foundation which includes knowledge of: reading and evaluating nonfiction works and material (such as biographies, newspapers, technical manuals) [|4] Students will acquire a solid foundation which includes knowledge of: writing formally (such as reports, narratives, essays) and informally (such as outlines, notes)
 * [|1] Students will acquire a solid foundation which includes knowledge of: speaking and writing standard English (including grammar, usage, punctuation, spelling, capitalization
 * [|1.1] Students will demonstrate within and integrate across all content areas the ability to develop questions and ideas to initiate and refine research.
 * [|1.1] Students will demonstrate within and integrate across all content areas the ability to develop questions and ideas to initiate and refine research.
 * [|1.8] Students will demonstrate within and integrate across all content areas the ability to organize data, information and ideas into useful forms (including charts, graphs, outlines) for analysis or presentation.
 * [|1.8] Students will demonstrate within and integrate across all content areas the ability to organize data, information and ideas into useful forms (including charts, graphs, outlines) for analysis or presentation.

__ Selection Tool Review Summary __

The links provided above were Web sites reviews including digital libraries, eThemes, IPL2, Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators and netTrekker d.i. I found that all of these were wonderful resources for parents and educators when looking for websites that meet the educational standards when looking for curriculum objectives resources. I will have to say that I really enjoyed using eThemes and probally netTrekker the most. They were very user friendly and I think provided sites that really supported the topic that I was looking for.