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An activity I would try to do with the students is to create the life cycle through a hands on activity while making observations from a book they have read to learn the cycle. Using different dry pastas, they will have four varities of pasta. The first one will be the bowtie pasta, the second on will be the shells, the third will be the swirl pasta, and the fourth will rice grains. The students will then make the observation of the the how the butterfly looks in each part of the cycle and compare it to the pastas. It will be as followed, the first stage of the butterfly is the egg and the pasta that most represents that stage is the rice grain. The second stage is the egg becoming a caterpillar and the pasta that best represents that is the swirlly pasta. Next, is the chrysalis stage (or the cacoon) and the pasta that best represents this stage is the shells. The last stage of the butterfly is it being the butterfly, and the students would come to the conclusion that the pasta that represents this stage is the bow tie pasta. Once the have seperated the pasta, they can glue them in the proper stage on a paper plate or hand out. Hope the explaination helped.
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