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Adult butterfly anatomy

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Abstract:: The butterfly can fly around using its wings and sees where it is going through its eyes. The spiracles allow the butterfly to breathe and the legs are what it uses to walk or crawl around on. The antennae help the butterfly know where it is going. The proboscis is what the butterfly uses to drink nectar from flowers.

Subject:: Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Primary, Secondary
Collection:: Video and Image Data Access

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Arthropod Morphology

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Abstract:: This Web page serves as a linked table of contents for the museum's supplemental resources on arthropod morphology. From it, you can access the following illustrated guides with a single click: Types of Antennae, Front View of an Insect (Grasshopper) Head, Parts of an Insect (Grasshopper), Parts of a Spider: Dorsal View of a Male Spider, Parts of a Spider: Ventral View of a Female Spider, and Metamorphosis.

Subject:: Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Primary, Secondary
SubTopics:: Animals and Insects
Collection:: American Museum of Natural History

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Becoming a Mosquito

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Abstract:: Join students as they observe mosquitoes in different stages of development and learn about the insect's life cycle in this video from Curious George.

Subject:: Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Primary
SubTopics:: Animals and Insects
Collection:: Teachers' Domain

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The Butterfly Conservatory

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Abstract:: This Web site, created to complement the museum's Butterfly Conservatory exhibit, looks at the butterflies that color our world.

Subject:: Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Primary, Secondary
Collection:: American Museum of Natural History

Butterfly Metamorphosis

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Abstract:: This is an integrated lesson which is introduced using the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. Butterfly metamorphosis is explored through art, math, and writing.

Subject:: Arts, Humanities, Mathematics and Statistics
Grade Level:: Primary
Collection:: LEARN NC Lesson Plans

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Butterfly pupa anatomy

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Abstract:: The pupa is the third stage of the butterfly's life cycle. The caterpillar creates a pupa, sometimes called a chrysalis, and emerges as the adult butterfly after metamorphosis. The butterfly's wings will be used for flying.

Subject:: Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Primary, Secondary
Collection:: Video and Image Data Access

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A Curious Cash Crop: Butterflies

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Abstract:: This BioBulletin Web site takes an in-depth look at butterfly farms. The site includes text, videos, photographs, and interviews with key scientists.

Subject:: Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Secondary, Post-secondary
SubTopics:: Endangered Species
Collection:: American Museum of Natural History

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Metamorphosis

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Abstract:: This illustrated guide is designed to help students understand and learn the difference between simple and complete metamorphosis. The Web page, which can be easily printed for use at field sites, illustrates: complete metamorphosis for lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) simple metamorphosis for thysanura (silverfish) simple metamorphosis for heteroptera (true bugs). In addition, the guide discusses the following additional terms: nymph larva pupa egg.

Subject:: Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Primary, Secondary
Collection:: American Museum of Natural History

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Metamorphosis: Change of Plans

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Abstract:: All animals develop and grow over time. The animals in this video segment, however, undergo very dramatic changes on their way to adulthood -- a developmental process known as metamorphosis.

Subject:: Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Primary, Secondary
SubTopics:: Animals and Insects
Collection:: Teachers' Domain

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Metamorphosis: Stories of Change

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Abstract:: The goal of this activity is for students to learn how to tell a story in order to make a complex topic (such as global warming or ozone holes) easier for a reader to grasp. Students realize that the narrative impulse underlies even scientific and technical writing and gain a better understanding of the role of myth as a "science" of imagination that helps us to gain insight into human motivation.

Subject:: Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Primary
SubTopics:: Industrial and Agricultural Impacts
Collection:: TeachEngineering

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NASA KSNN What is metamorphosis?

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Abstract:: As animals grow, their bodies usually change in size and shape. For some, their shape changes very little. For young amphibians, fish, and insects, the change is more dramatic and the young look very different from the adults. This process of change is called metamorphosis.

Subject:: Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Primary
SubTopics:: Animals and Insects
Collection:: NASA Kids Science News Network (NASA KSNN)

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Primitive Insects of the Congaree Swamp

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Abstract:: In this video segment from NatureScene, observe dragonflies and mayflies near Cedar Creek at Congaree Swamp National Park.

Subject:: Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Primary, Secondary
SubTopics:: Animals and Insects
Collection:: Teachers' Domain

Prohibition and Permission, Spring 2007

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Abstract:: Explore where the prohibitions and permissions that occur in every day life come from, why they exist, and what gives them force. For example: food- you are only willing and able to eat a subset of the world's edible substances. Marriage- some marriages are prohibited by law or by custom. Addresses questions of prohibition and permission using psychological sources and literary works from ancient to modern. Includes texts by Shakespeare, Melville, Mary Rowlandson, and Anita Desai. Students give group and individual oral presentations.

Subject:: Social Sciences
Grade Level:: Post-secondary
Collection:: MIT OpenCourseWare

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