This work is the result of the intensive pedagogical practice conduced at the Orlando Fals Borda schooI I.E.D. (Educational Institution District), with the Taxue`s science club students and the 702 student's, with the aim of supporting and implementing activities in the use of butterfly of the institution that can enhance and enrich the teaching of science.Using qualitative research method and the inquiry cycle proposed for the methodological guide the Teaching of Ecology in the Yard School.Activities were made of growth and development, support guides, labs, observations, presentations, pre-test and post-test, interviews, etc.After implementation it was found that the butterfly farm are spaces for observation, exploration, experimentation, and research involving not only investigative but also human aspects that provide and alternative and interactive site than trying to attract or seduce the student and keep a series of possibilities that are subject to the imagination and expectations of who develop it, also can encompass not only student, but also a large part of their family and educative.Enriching and contextualizes much more the experience of learning and teaching.