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🦋 Butterfly Life Cycle

Watch a tiny egg turn into a beautiful butterfly!

lesson

~5 min

to learn

🔬 Science

subject

Ages 3–5

level

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What you’ll learn

Name the four stages of a butterfly: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and butterfly.A butterfly starts as an egg, hatches into a hungry caterpillar, rests inside a chrysalis, and then becomes a beautiful flying butterfly. This amazing change is called the life cycle.

Questions this course answers

What does a butterfly's life start as?

A butterfly begins life as a tiny egg on a leaf.

What does the hungry caterpillar do all day?

The caterpillar eats leaves to grow big and strong.

Grounded in trusted sources

National Geographic Kids, "The butterfly life cycle!", natgeokids.com/uk/discover/animals/insects/butterfly-life-cycle
The Academy of Natural Sciences, "Butterfly Life Cycle", ansp.org/exhibits/online-exhibits/butterflies/lifecycle
Florida Museum, "Butterfly Life Cycle", floridamuseum.ufl.edu/educators/resource/butterfly-life-cycle

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