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A WebQuest for 2nd Grade
Science and Language Arts
Designed by
Meg Schwegmann
Introduction
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Task |
Process |Resources|
Conclusion |
Credits |
Teacher Page
You have been given the
chance to work with an Entomologist (this is a scientist who studies insects).
Your job while working with him is to oversee the care of his Monarch
butterflies. Before you start your job you need to learn about Monarchs. What do
they eat? How are they born? How long does it take to become an adult? What area
of the country do they live in? All these questions can be answered in this
webquest.
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 Using
the website links in this webquest and/or books you can find information to help
you with your future job. You can create your own butterfly and show its life
cycle. After your research you may also create one of the following: a poem,
acrostic or your own butterfly with story to share with the
class.
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To prepare you for your new job you will
need to do some research and have some fun!
1.
Get some paper so you can write down information you might want to
remember.
2.
Remember when writing your information to practice using good chocolate
(complete) sentences.
3.
Next you can draw and label a picture showing the life cycle of a Monarch
butterfly.
4.
Once you have all the basic information
it’s time for some fun! Look through some of the other websites listed and find
some fun facts about Monarchs and butterflies.
5.
Be creative: create a poem, a story or
an original picture to share.
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The first phase of your research will be to gather the information on the life
cycle of a Monarch, to find this information click on the picture. With the four
pictures on the left you will need to click on the arrow in the top right corner
to view all the information relating to each topic.
To return to this page
click on the back button.
Lifecycle
The first phase
 Who
mimics the monarch?
The second phase
The third phase
 What
do they eat?
The fourth phase
The fifth phase
 Where
do they travel?
Other Resources
 Puzzle
 A
teddy bears monarch story
 Something else to eat
 Take
a closer look at wings
 Trivia
 Watch
them travel
Congratulations! You are
on your way to becoming an Entomologist and should be a big help caring for the
Monarch butterflies. Hopefully you have had fun learning about this unusual
butterfly and will spend more time in the future looking into these unique
insects.
I’d like to thank Mrs. Sanford for giving me the idea for this quest and to all
my friends at Nannie Berry Elementary who are my cheering section and keep
urging me on.
The following websites were used in making this webquest:
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Caterpillars___Butterflies/index.shtml
Variety of ideas
Books
The Journey by Cynthia Rylant Extraordinary life: The story of a Monarch
butterfly by Laurence Pringle
Great butterfly hunt: The mystery of the migrating Monarch by Ethan Heberman
Magnificent Monarchs by Linda Glaser
Jake and the migration of the Monarch by Valerie B. Hollinger and Crystal B.
O’Conner (also in Spanish)
Clip art sites used
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