The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

WebQuest for 1^st Grade Reading and Science

Melinda Ladner

Introduction

A very hungry caterpillar pops out of an egg one night and begins eating everything in sight. He eats and eats until he finds the food that is just right for him. He is not a little caterpillar anymore but a big, fat caterpillar.

Would you like to find out what happens to this big, fat caterpillar? He builds a certain kind of house and comes out of it looking very different from a big fat caterpillar.

It will be your quest to discover what kind of home this caterpillar builds to come out looking so different from the big, fat caterpillar he was before. You will be an expert on caterpillars and what they become.

The Task

After reading the book, THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR BY Eric Carle, work with your partner to discover the following:

Draw the caterpillar as he changes on each day of the week

Discover what kind of home the caterpillar builds

Discover the stages a caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly.

Make a butterfly book including each stage

Research facts about butterflies and make your own

Print out a picture of a butterfly life cycle.

Make a beautiful butterfly of your own.

The Process

Read THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR with your partner.

If you want more information on Eric Carle, visit this site: The official Eric Carle site. http://www.eric-carle.com/

Visit the Enchanted Learning butterfly site. Click on it to learn about the stages a caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly.

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

Now print your own copy of the butterfly’s life cycle, from egg, to larva to pupa to adult. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/

4. Now you need to make a flipchart of the stages a caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly. Click on the life cycle of a butterfly" http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/

Now we are going to write a story. It will be called "Very Smart First Graders."Take each month, posted on the chalkboard, and tell what you have learned and then illustrate with a picture that shows what you have done. Try hard to follow the example of Mr. Carle! In the end of the story instead of a beautiful butterfly you will become a SECOND GRADER!

Wow your quest is almost over . Would you like to make a beautiful butterfly?

Get a piece of construction paper. Draw a butterfly and decorate it with sequence yarn glitter, markers, or whatever you like. Now cut it out and hang it on the class butterfly board.

Evaluation

Describe to the learners how their performance will be evaluated. Specify whether there will be a common grade for group work vs. individual grades.

	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Accomplished 3	Exemplary 4	Score
Participation	Partners work individually	Partners participate	Partners cooperate	Partners cooperate and encourage each other
Stages of the Butterfly Book	The students have identified at least three of the four correct stages of the butterfly.	All four stages are a identified but without much thought or detail	All four stages are identified with some thought and detail. Complete sentences are present	Excellent job of identifying all four stages. Much detail and thought are put into the illustration of each stage. Sentence structure Good
The student will construct a book on what they have learned in first grade titled the "Very Smart First Graders’’	The students here identify what they have learned each month through pictures but the sentences here are brief and not descriptive enough.	Students create a book detailing each month with creative pictures and short accurate sentences.	Students create a book detailing each month with colorful creative pictures and good sentence structure.	Excellent job of creating a book. Much thought and detail are incorporated into the story. Sentence structure is good. Pictures are creative bright and colorful.
The student will construct a butterfly	The student constructs a butterfly.	The student constructs a colorful butterfly	The student constructs a colorful detailed butterfly	The student constructs a detailed symmetrical butterfly

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Conclusion

Congratulations! You are now a butterfly expert! You have successfully completed your butterfly quest.

Credits & References

Images supplied by www.zoomschool.com

Outline/Format supplied by:Webquest

Books:Eric Caryle’s:The Very Hungry Caterpiller

Links for Butterflies: www.enchantedlearning.com

Webpage" . http://www.eric-carle.com/

Thanks to Melanie Sanchez and Carla VanVranken for surfing the net to find interesting sites to share.

Last updated on August 15, 1999. Based on a template from The WebQuest Page