Resources for a Butterfly Science Fair Project

Julian Trubin

• The Julian Trubin website offers science fair project ideas, samples and resources. The Butterflies Science Fair Project Guide organizes material based on grade. Categories include primary school (kindergarten through third grade), elementary school (grades four through six), middle school (grades seven through nine) and high school (grades ten through twelve), as well as a section containing useful science fair links and recommended books.

Butterfly &Nature Gift Store

• The Butterfly &Nature Gift Store website sells butterfly kits for use in class rooms and science projects. Several kits are available, featuring different types and numbers of caterpillars and materials required to care for and observe the insects. The website also offers other materials that may be useful for science fair projects, such as activity books, butterfly life cycle figurines and a real butterfly life cycle display.

Carolina

• A variety of butterfly-related educational materials are available for purchase at the Carolina math and science support website. The website sells caterpillar eggs, observable butterfly habitats, butterfly nets and other butterfly kits and materials for butterfly science projects.

KidsOLR

• The Kids Online Resources (KidsOLR) website's entomology page provides a list of helpful insect-related websites. This includes butterfly websites such as "Butterflies at the Field Museum," "Irish Butterflies," "Malaysian Butterflies," "The Butterfly Conservatory" and several more. The website also includes links to websites focusing on Monarch butterflies and links to butterfly pages from the Clemson University Department of Entomology.

BAMONA

• Visit the Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) website to learn more about butterfly species and their distribution and view or print images. BAMONA also features maps showing where certain species of butterfly can be found, a glossary of terms and links to relevant news articles.