Reception animals and their habitats lesson – butterfly life cycle focus
This Reception animals and their habitats lesson focuses on how caterpillars grow and change into butterflies, helping children understand simple life cycles through practical exploration. It’s part of our Scintillating Science Reception scheme of work and links directly to the EYFS goal of exploring the natural world.
Science Scheme | Reception | Block 1: Animals and Their Habitats | Lesson 5: How Living Things Change encourages children to go on a minibeast hunt, build their own minibeast habitat using natural materials, and complete a butterfly life cycle worksheet to record their learning. Children use observation, reasoning and early enquiry skills to notice how living things grow and change.
This complete EYFS science lesson is ideal for teaching the butterfly life cycle in Reception, and includes everything needed for a child-led, engaging session.
What’s included:
- Interactive teaching slides with key prompts and discussion questions
- Full Reception science lesson plan with vocabulary, misconceptions and assessment questions
- Minibeast habitat task using natural materials
- Butterfly life cycle worksheet with drawing and writing prompts
- Continuous provision ideas linked to growth and change
Explore our full primary science scheme of work or see all Reception animals and their habitats resources.
