Class Session #2: Glocal Ecological Generosity

Pre-Lesson Preparation

Three weeks before this lesson, order a butterfly kit to raise class butterflies. One week before the lesson, open and begin the kit. Make connections to butterfly life cycle in books and in the classroom, as the butterflies go through the stages of egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and butterfly.

01. Glocal Ecological Generosity - 20 MIN

1. Review: Review definitions of global, local, and glocal. Invite students to share examples of global, local and glocal that they have observed in their daily life. The teacher can share as well! Review definitions of culture, cultural heritage, ecology, and ecological heritage.
2. Engage: You have caterpillars in chrysalis about ready to hatch into butterflies! Are butterflies glocal? [Local caterpillars become globally migratory butterflies.]
3. Student Read Aloud: Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert
   Sit in a circle. Invite a student volunteer to read one page and share picture with class, and then pass the book to the next student volunteer to read and share one page.
4. Explore: Butterfly-Caterpillar Identification – Students walk around the classroom to find paper cut-out images of the butterflies and corresponding caterpillars listed below. (Find images near back page of Waiting for Wings. Photocopy and cut out images.) Invite students to search for cut-outs and return to their seat. Show back image of butterflies and caterpillars to students up close or on projector. Students try to match their own cut-out to the corresponding picture of a butterfly or caterpillar in the book.
   1. Buckeye butterfly/caterpillar
   2. Monarch butterfly/caterpillar
   3. Tiger Swallowtail butterfly/caterpillar
   4. Painted Lady butterfly/caterpillar

02. Explain: Defining Migration - 5 MIN

1. Define: Migration is seasonal movement from one region to another for food or a mate to reproduce, as well as to flee a crisis or out of forced migration, such as slavery.
2. Highlight: Migration can support the growth of cultures and ecologies, such as annual bird or butterfly migrations. However, some migrations create or are a result of the destruction of a cultural or ecological habitat or population, including humans.

02. Elaborate: Butterfly Migration Dance - 25 MIN

1. Read Aloud: Butterflies: Great Migrations (Laura Marsh, National Geographic Kids)
2. Discuss:
   1. Where do Monarch butterflies migrate from and where do they migrate to each year?
   2. How do they know where to travel? [Monarchs migrate from the U.S. and Canada to Mexico and back. The trip south takes only one generation and the trip north takes 3–4 generations. The trip south is made by a super generation that lives much longer than the other generations. The butterflies travel by instinct and sunlight.]
3. Great Butterfly Migration Dance: Place signs for “U.S./Canada” and “Mexico” on opposite sides of the room. Put students into groups of 4–5. Instruct the first student to migrate from U.S./Canada to Mexico, and the additional 3–4 students to migrate only 1/3 or 1/4 of the way back “north” where the next student continues the migration north until it is complete. Invite students to dance as they migrate south and as they migrate north. During this dance, play Butterfly Dance by Yanni or another orchestral butterfly dance composition of choice.