The flight of the butterflies
Personatges:
Tema: Animals
Competències
Competència en Comunicació Lingüística
Competència Matemàtica, en ciència, tecnologia i enginyeria
Matèries i cursos per Sistema Educatiu
Espanya > Biologia i Geologia > 1r ESO > Éssers vius
Espanya > Biologia i Geologia > 3r ESO > Éssers vius
Enunciat
1- Look at illustrations 1 and 2 by Maria Sibylla Merian.
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2- Describe what you see in each one.
3- Explain why arthropods moult during the development of the individual.
4- Activity: Raise silkworms (Bombyx mori) that you can get from a friend. You will need mulberry leaves to feed them. Observe, draw and photograph each of the stages of the metamorphosis of this insect.
Observacions i context
Her daughters Johanna Helena Herolt and Dorothea Maria Graff, whom she taught, were also botanical illustrators like herself. She also worked for Agnes Block, a well-known art collector and horticulturist. Her contemporaries were the astronomers Maria Cunitz and Mary Winckelmann-Kirch. Slightly earlier were Martine Bertereau, a mining engineer and mineralogist, and the renowned Maltese pharmacist Caterina Vitale, who worked as such for the Order of the Knights Hospitaller.
She worked mainly in Amsterdam and St. Petersburg.
Video with drawings and illustrations by Maria Sibylla Merian.
Descripció
Activity with two parts: in the first part, interpretation is proposed to relate Maria Sibylla Merian's drawings to the process of butterfly metamorphosis. In the second part, it is proposed to repeat the observations on live metamorphosis in order to observe them directly.