Butterfly Labs
Overview
Depending on the grade-level, students will use sunflowers and butterflies to understand more about plant and pollinator relationships with the environment and how climate change can have an impact on them.
Activity Type:
Target Grade Level:
K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Estimated Duration:
Varies
Topics:
Pollinators
Possible Connections to NGSS |
Performance Expectations Kindergarten Butterfly Lab K-ESS3-3: Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment. K-LS1-1: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants, animals and humans need to survive. 1st Grade Butterfly Lab 2-LS2-2: Develop a simple model that mimics the function of an animal in dispersing seeds or pollinating plants. 3-LS4-4: Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environmental changes and types of plants and animals that live there may change. 4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. 4-ESS3-2: Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans. 6th Grade Butterfly Lab MS-LS1-5: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms. MS-LS1-4: Use argument based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction. MS-ESS3-3: Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing human impact on the environment. MS-ESS3-5: Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century. |
Created by:
Climate Kids and Earth's Birthday Party (Celebrate Planet Earth)
