Sprouting our Wings in Second Grade!

School:: Avalon Elementary
Subject:: Science
Teacher:: Mary Pierce
: Daissy Sanchez, Betsy Cook, Lindsay Manders, Holly Aukerman
Students Impacted:: 115
Grade:: 2
Date:: July 2, 2018

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

Mary Ann - $177.45

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 115

The grant went a long way in helping students to not only internalize the learning goal of life cycles, but gave them hands on interactions with the life cycle of a butterfly. The students were so excited to come into the classroom each morning to observe and record the progress of the life cycle of our butterflies.

Our students loved watching the newly emerged butterflies feasting on the oranges that we had placed in the butterfly habitat. It was both a sad and exciting day when we released our butterflies into our Global Garden at Avalon. The students delighted in watching the once encaged butterflies being released and fly away to begin the next step of their life cycle.

This grant ensured that all of the second-grade students were able to observe, record and be a part of the life cycle of the butterfly.

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Original Grant Overview

Goal

My goal is for each second grade student to have the opportunity to have a butterfly habitat in their classroom where they can watch, write about, and learn the four stages of the lifecycle of a butterfly. Watching the actual progress of the butterfly, rather that just to read about it in their science books will help them to internalize their learning.

What will be done with my students

Students will research butterflies and find out what kinds of butterflies there are. They will also research what they eat and where they live. We will set up a butterfly garden in each second grade classroom. The students will witness the caterpillar building its cocoon and then emerging into a butterfly. They will also learn what butterflies eat and will release the butterflies into our Global Garden when the butterflies are ready. Students will track the progress of their butterfly garden in their Science journal. Each student will be actively engage in watching and journaling each stage of the butterflies lifecycle.

Benefits to my students

This will benefit the students by giving them the responsibility of taking care of the caterpillars and eventually butterflies. Students will learn the life cycle of the caterpillar and how they become butterflies by watching through their own eyes in their own classroom.

Budget Narrative

Our Second grade classrooms will each have a butterfly habitat cage. This grant will supply each classroom with 10 caterpillars, food, and all the supplies that our students will need to observe the four stages of the
butterfly lifecycle.

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	Insect Lore butterfly garden hapitat and 2 cups of 5 live larvae	$35.49
2	Insect Lore butterfly garden hapitat and 2 cups of 5 live larvae	$35.49
3	Insect Lore butterfly garden hapitat and 2 cups of 5 live larvae	$35.49
4	Insect Lore butterfly garden hapitat and 2 cups of 5 live larvae	$35.49
5	Insect Lore butterfly garden hapitat and 2 cups of 5 live larvae	$35.49
	Total:	$177.45

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