Butterflies lesson plan

So initally thought of an idea for my lesson plan in technology and I thought of a cute idea. I was going to get the students to use kid pix to draw a picture and then I would somehow get the pictures. Then I was going to be unique and laminate it onto a mousepad for them to take home. However, I was going to do a science circus on Butterflies and before that I was going to do a lesson plan and I thought this was a perfect time to incorporate technology. Hence, my lesson plan in the class was actually the lesson plan in my science class that had technology incorporated.

My students were familiar with butterflies so doing this lesson plan was really a review of waht they had done. Initially to engage them I read a book called "The Monarch Butterfly". After reading I asked them book specific questions as well as general questions. I also answered some questions they had - no doubt their far out questions I told them I would get back to them (the type of kids who naturally want to put their two cents worth!)
Then I told them I was going to get them to use Kid pix, which they were all very familiar with, so it wasn't difficult for me to explain to them. Their task was to draw the butterfly life cycle stages on kid pix and then print it out for me. I told them I was going to have a surprise with their work, but I didn't tell them what I was going to use it for.
They had fun in creating the pictures and I had fun looking through the unique desgins some came out with! For their extension part I connected it with the butterfly science circus.
When the time came for their science circus I gave them their surprise - their pictures pasted on their very own journals to keep!
They were excited about that, which set the mood for beginning the science circus.

I had a great time with them and myself had never used kid pix so I had tremendous fun playing around with it to see what I could do!
If you want to see my lesson plan in detail please go to my wiki and click on the butterfly lesson plan at http://pkhosla.wikispaces.com