Life Cycle of a Butterfly

In Mrs. Eckhardt's 2nd grade class, the students are using Microsoft Power Point to illustrate the life cycle of a butterfly. They started the project by watching as their butterflies developed in the classroom. Then they used the Internet to find pictures to illustrate their life cycle Power Point presentations. They found some really great web sites with butterfly art and information including the ones listed below:

• http://butterflywebsite.com/clipart/constructtable.cfm


• http://www.webstarwest.com/Butterfly/index.html


• http://bsi.montana.edu/web/kidsbutterfly/


• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/


• http://www.webweaver.nu/clipart/insects-butterfly.shtml

Rulers and Measurement

Last week students in Ms. Dhaliwal's class at Emerson Elementary started learning how to use rulers and other measuring tools. They took rulers and yard sticks and measured everything in and out of the classroom. To integrate technology into the lesson, we used the laptop computers and a SMART Board to practice. The students opened a SMART Notebook file from flash drives and proceeded to measure the objects on the screen using a ruler that can be manipulated to measure how tall and how wide each object is.

When they are finished measuring and recording each object, they will go to the following URL's to practice in a game like format:

• http://www.quizville.com/usingRuler.php
• http://www.funbrain.com/measure/index.html