Metamorphosis & Metanoia: Changing Forms and Minds
Metamorphosis & Metanoia: Changing Forms and Minds
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Metamorphosis & Metanoia: Changing Forms and Minds
What do you already know about insects and how they change?
Learning Objective
At the end of the lesson you will be able to explain what makes an insect an arthropod, identify their features, describe butterfly metamorphosis, and connect physical and mental transformation through Greek roots.
What is an Arthropod?
Arthropods are animals with exoskeletons (hard outer shells), segmented bodies, and jointed legs. Examples include insects, spiders, crabs and butterflies!
Butterflies do have exoskeletons but they are a little soft when they undergo metamorphosis!!!
Other examples are larvae of moths,
So would you say they have an exoskeleton? We need to clarify!
Features of Insects
Insects have six legs, a body divided into three parts (head, thorax, abdomen), and often two pairs of wings.
Butterfly Metamorphosis
Butterflies transform from egg to larva (caterpillar), then pupa (chrysalis), and finally adult. This change is called metamorphosis.
Metamorphosis: What Does It Mean?
‘Metamorphosis’ comes from the Greek 'meta' (change) and 'morphe' (form). It means a change of form or structure.
Metamorphosis and Metanoia
Metanoia
A mental transformation; a change of mind or thinking differently.
A physical transformation, like a caterpillar changing into a butterfly.
Metamorphosis
Reflection: The Power of Change
Think about a time you changed your mind or learned something new. How is this like metamorphosis in insects?
Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.
Write down 2 things you want to know more about.
Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.
