Exploring Life Cycles

Lesson 12
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ELA

Unit 7

Kindergarten

Lesson 12 of 22

Objective


Explain what Merian learned about butterflies and why this was important.

Readings and Materials


  • Book: Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian by Margarita Engle 

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Target Task


Discussion & Writing Prompt

What did Maria learn about butterflies? Why was this important?

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Key Questions


  • What was a “summer bird”? How did people feel about them?

  • Where did people think the butterflies came from?

  • What does Maria believe? How is this different from her neighbors?

  • What does Maria notice when she watches the summer birds?

  • What does Maria learn from watching the summer birds? How is this different from what the grown-ups think?

  • How does Maria spend her time? Why?

  • What does Maria want to do with her paintings? Why?

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Common Core Standards


  • RI.K.3 — With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
  • RI.K.7 — With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).

Supporting Standards

RI.K.1
RI.K.10
SL.K.1
SL.K.2

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Describe the stages in a butterfly’s life cycle and what happens at each stage.

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