Lepidoptera Patterns
Photo Left: Heliconius butterflies showing a diversity of patterns as well as mimicry
Web Resources
Enchanted Learning - Butterfly Wing Anatomy
Insects.org - Great place for observing their patterns!
The Development of Lepidoptera Wing Patterns
Butterflies and Moths of North America
Geometry and Pattern in Nature 2: Iridescence in butterfly wing scales by Christina Brodie, UK
Paper - Modelling butterfly wing eyespot patterns
Enchanted Learning - Butterfly Wing Anatomy
Insects.org - Great place for observing their patterns!
The Development of Lepidoptera Wing Patterns
Butterflies and Moths of North America
Geometry and Pattern in Nature 2: Iridescence in butterfly wing scales by Christina Brodie, UK
Paper - Modelling butterfly wing eyespot patterns
Projects & Activities
Janice VanCleave - Symmetry: Butterfly Wings
Butterfly Wing Designs for student designed art projects - using these butterfly wing art you can print out and create beautiful murals or any kind of designed artwork using these wing patterns. Even with a black and white printout, these wings will be gorgeous! Just be sure to give credit to the artists by either leaving their names or printing them somewhere on your artwork. You can also just hand-sketch the designs (and get inspiration from the art) and make your own patterns to make your own work.
Craft: Clipart Butterfly Specimens - Printouts of beautiful butterflies
Journal Activity #1
Look for a lepidoptera that interests from this Wikipedia article of different kinds of lepidoptera. You and use the student journal guildelines to create a journal page either using the given template below or the instructions given on the CurrClick Live resource page. If you use the template, I suggest using a three hole-punch to put holes on the left side of the completed journal page and place in a three-ring binder. If you don't have a three-ring binder, you can put the page in a folder for safe keeping. See the CurrClick Live MathArt resource page for samples & more detailed guildelines to download.
Journal Activity #2
Observe the remarkable patterns of a Blue Morpho butterfly's scale zoom in the video below. In your MathArt field journal or blog, sketch the pattern and write a geometric pattern description of your observations. You can download the blank journal template below or use as guidelines to set up your own blank page in your journal about the Blue Morpho including information from the video.
Janice VanCleave - Symmetry: Butterfly Wings
Butterfly Wing Designs for student designed art projects - using these butterfly wing art you can print out and create beautiful murals or any kind of designed artwork using these wing patterns. Even with a black and white printout, these wings will be gorgeous! Just be sure to give credit to the artists by either leaving their names or printing them somewhere on your artwork. You can also just hand-sketch the designs (and get inspiration from the art) and make your own patterns to make your own work.
Craft: Clipart Butterfly Specimens - Printouts of beautiful butterflies
Journal Activity #1
Look for a lepidoptera that interests from this Wikipedia article of different kinds of lepidoptera. You and use the student journal guildelines to create a journal page either using the given template below or the instructions given on the CurrClick Live resource page. If you use the template, I suggest using a three hole-punch to put holes on the left side of the completed journal page and place in a three-ring binder. If you don't have a three-ring binder, you can put the page in a folder for safe keeping. See the CurrClick Live MathArt resource page for samples & more detailed guildelines to download.
Journal Activity #2
Observe the remarkable patterns of a Blue Morpho butterfly's scale zoom in the video below. In your MathArt field journal or blog, sketch the pattern and write a geometric pattern description of your observations. You can download the blank journal template below or use as guidelines to set up your own blank page in your journal about the Blue Morpho including information from the video.
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In addition to the marvels of the butterfly ideopsis similis' metamorphosis below, what colors, patterns and symmetries do you observe?
Lesson #4 Live Class Videos
Informative Videos