Butterflies and Frida Kahlo
This workshop at the Tucson Botanical Gardens focused on the life cycle of butterflies and Frida Kahlo’s connection to these lovely creatures. With a walk through the Amazing Butterflies tropical butterfly exhibit, a tour through Frida Kahlo’s recreated garden, and many activities and lessons focused on the life cycle of butterflies. Facilitators both from The STEMAZing Project and from the Tucson Botanical Gardens engaged early childhood educators in a day filled with art and butterflies. Butterfly Magic kits from the Tucson Botanical Gardens included coupons to get live caterpillars later in the year to observe the life cycle of a butterfly firsthand with students.
Workshop Resources
Butterfly Symmetry, Camouflage, and Disguise
A great lesson to put students' knowledge of the REAL primary colors of paints to use. Challenge students to create a butterfly using symmetry which uses either camouflage or disguise as a survival technique ...
Caterpillar to Butterfly
A very accurate book about the life cycle of the butterfly from National Geographic ...
Frida
This picture book (available in both English and Spanish) details Frida Kahlo's life with some amazing lessons about art and life ...
Glue Sponge
Try out this solution for messy glue bottles - use a glue sponge instead. Endorsed by the teachers at Stephen F. Austin STEM Academy in Texas ...
Seven Essential Life Skills
From the Mind in the Making book, these are the essential life skills we want students to develop ...
STEMAZing Journal Hack
Make graph paper STEMAZing journals that require no staples or tape using an old bookbinding trick ...
Tucson Botanical Gardens
Our host for this workshop, we enjoyed the Frida Kahlo exhibit throughout the gardens and the Butterfly Magic exhibit in the greenhouse ...
Very Hungry Caterpillar
A great story about a caterpillar but beware of inaccuracies to the real butterfly life cycle ...