Pre- and Post-Visit Activities

Ideas for before and after your Butterfly Pavilion field trip or just new ideas for your insect or invertebrate unit! Each download includes several "buggy" projects incorporating science, math, geography and literacy! Link to the following activities:

Pre-K & Kindergarten Invertebrates
First Grade Animal Differences
Second Grade Insects & More
Third Grade Butterflies & Moths
Fourth & Fifth Grades Arthropods
Sixth - Eigth Grades Food Webs & Habitats

Additional Activities
Complete lesson plans for fun bug activities!

Ultimate Butterfly Reinforce life cycle knowledge with this movement activity!
Insect Olympic Games Conduct your own Olympiad with your students - no bugs needed!
Create Your Own Bug Vacuum Go on a bug hunt with an easy and fun collection device.
Create a Nature Journal Make a burrito book and use it as a nature journal to observe nature in your schoolyard.
Butterfly Journaling Make a burrito book and use it as a nature journal to observe nature in your schoolyard.

Timing
To make the most of a Butterfly Pavilion visit, many teachers find it helpful to have students work on a specific project, assignment, or activity while at the facility. Some teachers include pre- and post-visit activities as a part of an overall project. Please note that our exhibits are continually changing, and an activity you developed last year may or may not accurately reflect current exhibits.

Downloading Activity Sheets
These activities were prepared by Butterfly Pavilion education staff and are available for classroom use by other educators. These documents are in the standard Adobe Acrobat PDF™ format. If you do not have the Adobe Acrobat Reader, it can be downloaded free of charge from Adobe Systems.