Computer Lab Activities
Build Your Own Caterpillar: An Endangered Ecosystems Activity
Students can create their own caterpillars, and with helpful hints, learn to build them so they would survive in their environment.
- Grades: 3–5, 6–8
Students can “Build a Caterpillar” (grades K–4) with this fun, interactive learning activity.
Students will have to consider each caterpillar’s environment and then choose the colors, spines, and extras that will help their caterpillar protect himself and survive. Clues offer help along the way. When they’re finished, students can print out their creations.
Learning Objectives
While creating their caterpillars, students gain an understanding of how living things interact with or cause changes to their environment.
Related Resources
By studying animals that live in three different endangered environments, students learn how ecosystems sustain wildlife.
Combine bug parts to create bugs found in nature or brand new creatures.
- Subjects:Forests and Rainforests, Environmental Conservation and Preservation, Arts and Creativity, Endangered Animals and Welfare, Insects, Latin America, South America, Animal Camouflage, Animal Survival and Adaptation, Predator and Prey Relationships, Jungle and Rainforest Animals, Communication and the Internet, Educational Technology, Teaching with Technology
