Butterfly Wings Puzzle

This puzzle is built upon one of the templates available on the Learning Magic, Inc.'s Puzzling CD. It requires the child to click on the puzzle three times to remove the three puzzle pieces and display the entire picture of the Owl Butterfly. When the third piece is removed a question is asked, "What color do you think the top of the butterfly's wings are?" At this point the child can see the pattern of the underside only.

When the child clicks a fourth time, a movie plays which shows the butterfly flapping its wings. The blue and yellow tops of the wings are then displayed. Text is read aloud, explaining that the wings are blue and yellow on top and have circles like an owl's eyes on the bottom.

This puzzle is being used in classrooms as a subject starter about tropical butterflies, their environment, their defense mechanisms (i.e. camouflage) and other subjects related to the tropical rainforest.

It is also being used in conjunction with the Butterfly House Adventure, Butterfly House Writing, and Butterfly House Writing - Supported activities, which are available for download from our Goodies section.

Butterfly Wings Puzzle was built in Classroom Suite v. 3.2. The activity can be run on the ITAN Player. But IntelliPics Studio 3® is needed to perform data capture, automatic grading and portfolio management, as well as any editing or changes to the activity itself. Required Software: IntelliTools Classroom Suite® v. 3.2 .