First Grade Student Questions and Frog/Butterfly Life Cycle Comparison

Before the Biome Detectives travelled to Costa Rica the first graders made a VENN diagram comparing and contrasting the life cycle of the butterfly and the frog. This is what they came up with:

Butterfly: 1. Learns to fly 2. Caterpillar hatches 3. First food is its own egg 4. Dries its wings 5. Life cycle is 1 month 6. Chrysalis to Butterfly 7. Chrysalis

Both: 1. Starts as an egg 2. Life cycle has 4 points 3. Has a mom and dad 4. Long tongues

Frog: 1. Froglet to Frog 2. Swims 3. Tadpole hatches 4. Tadpole to Froglet 5. Life cycle is 4 months

They also asked questions about Costa Rica in general:
1. Are there lots of rocks?
2 How many people are there?
3. What kind of food do they have?
4. Is there a village?
5. Is there different butterflies?
6. What language do they talk in?
7. What does it look like in a volcano?
8. Do they have a school there?
9. What does the money look like?
10. How do they get the ropes across to the trees? (ziplining)
11. How do volcanoes erupt and smoke? How does volcano lava come out?
12. Is there frogs or pythons?
13. How do you get to Costa Rica?
14. What do they do for fun?
15. What do you hunt for?
16. What do monkeys eat?
17. What do volcano rocks feel like?
18. Are there farms?
19. What do the kids do in school?
20. What kinds of houses are there?

So many things to think about!