butter_animte.gif (14174 bytes)Butterflies
(lower elementary)

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Butterfly Coloring Book - http://www.foremost.com/butterflies/projects/coloring_book.htm
"Hey kids! Do you like to color pictures? We've got a few butterflies you can have fun with. Print out the page and then go wild with your crayons, markers or paints."
Butterfly Pavilion Kids Klub - http://www.butterflies.org/kids.cfm
Welcome to the Butterfly Pavilion's Kids Klub - a place where kids of all ages can come to play. The Klub has all kinds of games and puzzles that teach you about the butterflies and insects that you will find at the Pavilion. If you want to let your friends know about the fun you had here, you can send them a butterflymail postcard.
The Butterfly Website - http://mgfx.com/butterfly/
Welcome to The Butterfly WebSite, providing our guests with the most complete information on butterfly gardening, farming, ecology and education.
Children's Butterfly Site - http://www.mesc.nbs.gov/butterfly/Butterfly.html
Despite their small size, butterflies and moths are some of the world's most wondrous animals. Their beauty, seemingly miraculous metamorphosis, and apparently carefree flight all spark our imaginations. Includes coloring pages, photo galleries, links to pictures, links to other sites, and answers to frequently asked questions.
The Florida Monarch Butterfly WebSite - http://adver-net.com/FMonHome.html
The purpose of this web site is to harvest the interest we all share in the wild things of nature. This site is about planting butterfly gardens comprised of both nectar and larval food plantings (the Monarch, for example, is very specific as to what it will eat as are most other species of butterflies) and raising the caterpillars to butterflies for release. In Florida, we are fortunate to have 120 of the 700 known North American species present.
Monarchs and Migration - http://www.smm.org/sln/monarchs/top.html
Teachers, students, and families across the country are exploring Monarchs, butterflies, and the mystery of migration. Includes: Ten easy ways to investigate butterflies; Find other people interested in butterflies; Try these butterfly related activities; and more.
Monica the Monarch - http://www2.cybernex.net/~dbenz/monarch.htm
With large, crisp photographs, sixth-grader Shalynn Benz tells the story of how she found Monica, the monarch caterpillar, resting on a milkweed leaf and raised her to be a butterfly. "Sometime in October or early November when the weather gets cold the monarchs will start their journey to thirteen roosting sites to the west of Mexico City, Mexico.
South Carolina Butterfly Project - http://butterfly.clemson.edu/
Students at 52 schools across South Carolina are gathering data on butterfly populations at their schools and sharing their data via the Internet. Some features on this Web site are specially designed and available only to South Carolina butterfly project teachers and students. However, most features are available to anyone wanting to learn more about the project, and review the scientific areas of butterfly study, and view the student-gathered data. We welcome visitors to the South Carolina Butterfly Project Data Server!
 

Jeffrey Branzburg
Supervisor of Instructional Technology
Lawrence Public Schools
Lawrence, NY
jbranzburg@lawrence.k12.ny.us