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Unit for Reception to Year 2 Butterflies: Engaging with nature

Unit for Reception to Year 2 Butterflies: Engaging with nature

TLF ID A002402

This unit of work engages students in preparing butterfly gardens in their schoolgrounds. It explores the characteristics of living and non-living things, features of caterpillars and butterflies, the lifecycle of butterflies, survival requirements, and the characteristics of butterfly gardens. The unit includes worksheets, assessment ideas, pictures, and links to useful websites, and is supported by The Manual: Butterfly Gardening in South Australia.

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Educational details

Educational value
  • Teaching and learning
  • Professional learning
Year level

F; 1; 2

Topics Adaptation (Evolution) Animal behaviour Environmental management Sheltering behaviour Habitats Animal reproduction Living things Assessment rubrics Scientists Plant reproduction Breeding cycles Butterflies Perception Collaborative learning Communication skills Experiments Discussions (Texts) Curiosity Scientific inquiry Observations (Data) Sunlight Assessment for learning Text types Water Physical characteristics (Animals) Predictions (Science) Vocabularies Lifestyles Patterns Similarity (Classification) Discovery (Observations) Explanations (Scientific inquiry) Research questions Physical characteristics (Plants)
Learning area
  • Science

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Contributors
  • Author
  • Person: Naomi Findlay
  • Description: Author
  • Contributor
  • Person: Naomi Findlay
  • Description: Author
  • Publisher
  • Name: Australian Association for Environmental Education SA Chapter
  • Organization: Australian Association for Environmental Education SA Chapter
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: South Australia, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: https://www.aaeesa.org.au/
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Downloadable
  • Text
Rights
  • This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0) Please quote the following if adapting or copying the material. Copyright: Australian Association for Environmental Education SA Chapter October 2021, except where indicated otherwise.