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Children will be able to watch videos, pictures on line and this would be so much fun to make a video by yourself!!



Grade Level: 1st Unit: Science Lesson Objectives: Students will learn about the life cycle of a butterfly. Students will successfully know the four stages of the butterfly cycle. students will get direct science experience by demonstrating knowledge of basic science concepts of physical science, life science, and earth and space science. Students will understand concepts related to everyday life through characteristic properties of objects, patterns and how they repeat, and cycles.

Time Required to complete this lesson: couple of lessons

Title of lesson: The life cycles of a butterfly. Description of lesson:

We had an introduction and we talked about butterflies and that they are insects that come in many shapes, sizes, and colors. Then i asked them what color butterflies they have seen. Most children were familiar with butterflies and already had a mental image of them. I Showed the students the blown up picture of the "Life Cycles of the Butterfly" that was placed on the easel and explained that they will be learning about these cycles and be expected to be able to draw and label, in order, these cycles.

Learning activities: 1.I Asked the children to sit at the reading station and then read the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to the children and showed them the pictures. 2.I Explained the children that the first stage is called the egg stage and that The mother butterfly lays eggs on a leaf. 3. In the second stage the egg hatches on the leaf and a caterpillar comes out. 4. In the third stage the caterpillar will grow and pop out of it's skin to make room for it's larger size. After it does this four or five times it starts to spin a silk to make a cocoon on a leaf or a twig. It is here that the caterpillar turns into a butterfly. 5. In the fourth stage the butterfly breaks open the cocoon and lays very still To dry it's body and wings out. When it's dry the beautiful butterfly will fly away, and the cycle is started all over again. 6.I Showed the children the butterfly life cycle book and asked them to identify the cycles in each picture. 7.I Show the children the "Butterflies" sheet and explain that they will be cutting out the butterfly and the circles showing the cycles, and then pasted the circles in the correct order on the butterfly. When they were done pasting the circles on they colored their butterflies.

Assignment : For home- parents should ask the children what they have learned about the life cycle of a butterfly. Also, Parents should ask the children to tell them what cycle comes first, second, third, and then fourth

Resources/materials needed:


 * Easel

http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag36.html Http://adver-net.com/Monemerg.html and http://www.monarchwatch.org
 * Blown up picture of the "Life Cycle of a Butterfly"
 * White construction paper
 * Crayons or markers, and pencils
 * Scissors and glue
 * Copies of "Butterflies!" sheet for children from
 * The book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", by Eric Carle
 * Butterfly life cycle book made with pictures from

Technology used: I used this website [|www.masher.com] to create a presentation with music and cooperate pictures of different butterflies The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: It changed it because these way children could see the pictures more clearly on the computer and listen to a nice song or hear the different sounds the butterfly make and see a video of the different stages in a butterfly’s development.

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This video is an introduction to our unit on Pollution. It introduces 3 types of pollution and thier cause.

Grade Level: 1st

Unit: Science

Lesson objectives: The students will be able to: 1. Identify and discuss different kinds of pollution. 2. Identify and discuss sources of pollution. 3. Discuss and explain why it is important to keep the environment free of pollution.  Time Required to complete this lesson: Couple of weeks

Title of lesson: Causes of Pollution 

Description of lesson:

As the future of our country, children need to be able to identify the types of pollution, the sources of the pollution, and how they can protect the environment from further pollutants.  Assignment: Have students wash the outside of a window that is easy to reach. A few days later, let them wipe the same window with a clean tissue. Discuss possible reasons the window became dirty (air pollution).
 * 1) We were reviewing the lesson vocabulary; pollution, surroundings, litter, environment.
 * 2) We discussed the displayed pictures of water, air, and land pollution. Each student had to identify what was wrong in each of the pictures displayed. Then they wrote Write responses underneath each of the pictures.
 * 3) I asked students to "Brainstorm" to complete a list of ways that they can help to stop pollution. Examples: not put garbage into the lakes and streams, walk or ride bikes whenever possible, pick up litter). We were making a poster to inform others about pollution. We Displayed the posters around the school.
 * 4) We made "litter boxes" with labels and decorations that stated why it is important not to litter. We placed the boxes in areas around the school or home.

Resources/materials needed: lesson vocabulary cards, photographs of water, air, and land pollution, chart paper, "Let's Stop Pollution" poster, posterboard, crayons, markers, variety of sizes of cardboard boxes, poster or tempera paint, Kleenex, soap, water, variety of pollution bumper stickers.

Technology used: I used Animoto.com to present the unit of Pollution.

The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: This changed the learning since students could see pictures of pollution along with the music, which might have been a little overwhelming to see all the images but it let them know that those pictures we saw (air, land and water pollution) are really bad to us.

media type="custom" key="5619509"  This video's purpose is to show all the bad things that are happening to our environment,the air, water and land pollution caused by us, people. This video has some suggestions how we can do something about it in order to change our world and make it "pollution free" world.