School Bulletin Board Ideas
Looking for some easy science projects to go along with your butterfly bulletin board? Consider raising monarch butterflies in the classroom. Fall is a great time to do this because common milkweed, monarch caterpillar food, is easy to find. Check out the step by step instructions for this elementary school science project and a winter plant science project growing tropical milkweed from seeds. These butterfly photos of the Monarch life cycle would be perfect for bulletin boards, flash cards or framed art in the classroom or at home. I also have butterfly raising kits for the classroom. Below is an Interactive school bulletin board idea on the Life Cycle of the Butterfly for an Elementary Science Project. Check out this 8 photo set of the Monarch life cycle which would be perfect to use with this bulletin board. My daughter is an Elementary Education major in college. In her Science Pedagogy class, they were assigned an Interactive Bulletin Board on a science topic. Two of her friends chose the life cycle of a butterfly. Imagine their surprise when they "stumbled" upon my website while doing research and saw a picture of my daughter! They allowed me to share their Butterfly Life Cycle Bulletin Board for 2nd grade that they created. I think they did a great job! Their "reflection" (below) explains the interactive nature of the bulletin board.
"Our interactive bulletin board is titled “Butterfly Life Cycle.” This bulletin board meets the Minnesota Academic Standard for Science, 2-IV-B-31. Under the strand “Life Sciences” and sub-strand “Diversity of Organisms,” second grade students are expected to describe life cycles of plants and animals. We decided to focus on the life cycle of a monarch butterfly, because it is a species students in Minnesota will be familiar with. There are three main ways our bulletin board is interactive. First, students are asked to match pictures with sentences describing the stage of a butterfly’s life. The pictures were placed in a manila folder that was labeled with directions for students to follow. Students then moved the images and tacked them above the correct sentence. We felt this would be an excellent strategy to help both visual and linguistic students move through the life cycle of a butterfly. Second, there are four flaps with vocabulary terms students will need to know: larva, pupa, egg, and butterfly. When students open the flap, they see an image as well as a description of the term. We believed the flaps would be helpful because they will work similar to a “word wall.” Students could reference the word flaps in order to spell the terms correctly in their writing. Third, students are able to create their own butterfly life cycle bookmark to take back to their desk and illustrate. There is a space above the name of each stage for students to draw a picture. Therefore, visual, linguistic, and creative learners benefit from this activity. Also, students are able to take something home with them that they will use as a bookmark. As a result, every time they use the bookmark they will remember what they have learned. In other words, the repetition will help the students retain the knowledge they had learned." We would love to hear from YOU...share your butterfly bulletin board ideas with us! Check out my Butterfly Lesson Plans on the "Life Cycle of a Butterfly". This Elementary Science Unit has Four Lessons on the Butterfly Stages. School Bulletin Board Ideas with a Butterfly theme (such as above) could go right along with this Unit.
Here is a excellent classroom poster with many different butterflies and their life stages. You could use it on a bulletin board or as art in your classroom.   Buy at AllPosters.com
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