| | | Monarch Life Cycle |  | Fall Exhibit: Monarch Life Cycle
In small groups, students use display boards to present information about one of the following areas of the monarch life cycle:
1. Life cycle
2. How to raise a monarch caterpillar
3. Migration
Student MicroWorlds computer animation projects of the monarch life cycle are displayed during the exhibit.
Graduation Standard: Life Science, Diversity of Organisms:
The student will recognize that plants and animals have life cycles.
1. The student will describe life cycles of monarch.
2. Plants and animals have features that help them live in different environments.
3. The student will observe and describe how plants and animals grow and change.
Graduation Standard: Life Science, The Universe:
The student will understand that organisms live in different environments.
1. The student will observe and describe some features of plants and animals that allow them to live in specific environments.
The student will understand that organisms use things from their environments to survive.
1.
Animals eat plants (milkweed) or other animals for food and may also
use plants (oyamel trees) or other animals for shelter and nesting
(milkweed).
The student will understand that an organism’s patterns of behavior are related to the nature of its environment.
1. The student will know that changes in a habitat can be beneficial or harmful to an organism.
Vocabulary: larva/larvae, pupa/pupae, chrysalis, instar, molt, metamorphosis, migrate, frass, proboscis, milkweed, caterpillar
Key Knowledge given in complete statements:
To be posted during the unit, used for student exhibit planning, and for evaluation.
1. Scientists record their observations in a journal in order to track changes.
2.
The life cycle of a monarch butterfly is egg, larva, pupa and adult.
This change process is called metamorphosis. All insect go through the
process of metamorphosis.
3. Larvae molt (shed their skin) five times.
4. Larvae go through five instars which are the periods between each time they molt.
5. One way to identify male monarchs is by the two spots on their hindwings.
6. Summer monarch migrate south to Mexico in the fall. In the spring their offspring migrate back north.
7.
Monarch caterpillars need milkweed for food and protection. Summer
monarch butterflies that migrate to Mexico need the oyamel trees for
shelter.
8. Changes in the monarch’s habitat affects monarch survival.
Big Questions:
These
questions should be asked to help the students get to the key
knowledge. Have at least one higher order question. It can be made as a
statement. (Compare the......)(Explain the relationship...)
1. What are the stages of the monarch life cycle?
2. How can we record the changes of the monarch egg?
3. What other living things do monarchs need in order to survive?
4. What happens if the monarch habitat is changed?
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