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Elementary School Life Cycles Resources : Page 3

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

Alfalfa Friends

Inspire your child to learn about an amazing animal as she creates her very own polar bear habitat.

Create a Polar Bear Habitat!

Explore the circle of life with this informative coloring sheet! Help your student color and learn the names of each stage of a salmonâs life.

Color the Life Cycle: Salmon

Explore the circle of life with this informative coloring sheet! Help your student color and learn the names of each stage of a cuttlefishâs life.

Color the Life Cycle: Cuttlefish

Hop this way for some marsupial madness! Your child can learn about the life cycle of a kangaroo, and how marsupials differ from mammals.

Life Cycle of a Kangaroo

This butterfly mandala makes a perfect supplement to life science classes!

Color a Mandala: Butterflies

All living things go through many changes as they grow to be adults! Help your little one understand how he will grow and change.

Life Cycles

Life cycles go around and around! In this technology-integrated lesson, students will research various animal life cycles and write about them.

Animal Life Cycles, All Around

Let your students spread their wings with this lesson that teaches them about the life cycle of a butterfly. A fun song will get your class moving and a variety of different worksheets will suit any class.

The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

In this lesson, you will use “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” to teach students about the butterfly life cycle. After listening to the story read aloud, students will use their knowledge to create their own butterfly life cycles! 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar: A Butterfly's Life Cycle

Root, stem, flower, leaf! In this hands-on science lesson, your students will create their own plants to help them identify and remember the parts of a plant.

Parts of a Plant

Your students will love learning about nonfiction texts and the life cycle of a seed with a classic story, simple video, and a cut and paste activity!


Plant Life Cycle: Pumpkins!

This lesson will provide students with an opportunity to become more comfortable with identifying and defining academic vocabulary words in a nonfiction text about a chicken's life cycle to support comprehension.

Understanding Academic Vocabulary in a Nonfiction Text

How does your garden grow? In this lesson, students will practice listening comprehension, vocabulary, and story sequencing. This hands-on art and literacy lesson is perfect for Earth Day, or any nature unit. 

Flower Garden: Literacy

We aren’t mind readers, but we can still figure out why the author wrote a text and what an author thinks about the topic! This lesson will teach your students the main purposes for writing.

Exploring Author's Purpose and Point of View

All about the "B"utiful butterfly! Use this kinesthetic and creative lesson about the butterfly to focus on the letter B. Your students will also love learning about the butterfly life cycle.

Beautiful Butterflies: The Letter B

In this fun compare and contrast lesson plan, preschool students will dive into the world of cows! Can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the  **Imagination Real or Make Believe** lesson plan.

Real or Not?

From seed to flower, students will learn all about the life cycle of a plant in this science lesson. Your class will discover what living things need to grow, and learn the various stages of a plant’s life span, with new vocabulary words.

Life Cycle of a Plant

In this caterpillar-focused lesson plan, students will practice identifying words that begin with the letter C, while learning about the metamorphosis of a butterfly. This can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for your ELs.

Linking Letter Sounds

Provide students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. Use as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Finding the Main Idea and Details in a Nonfiction Text lesson. 

Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

In this lesson, students will explore the life cycle of a pumpkin plant. Then they will have the chance to grow their own!

How Pumpkins Grow

Your students will be able to sequence the events in a story after this fun-filled lesson about insects!

Sequence It

ELs will gain valuable practice learning about text features as they practice close reading and communication skills during a nonfiction picture walk. Use on its own or as a support for the Classifying Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan. 

Going on a Nonfiction Picture Walk

Help your student study a table of contents and learn all about the life cycle of a butterfly in this leveled book developed by education professionals.

The Life Cycle of a Butterfly: Level F

Get some life science learning and reading practice all in one in this interactive activity about the life cycle of a chicken.

A Chicken's Life Cycle: Level N

Which came first? Get ready for some life science learning and reading practice all in one in this interactive activity about the life cycle of a chicken.

A Chicken's Life Cycle: Level K

The life cycle of plants is a lot like the life cycle for many living things -- so as kids work on reading essentials, they'll learn some science, too.

A Plant Grows: Level C

A Chicken's Life Cycle: Level H

Learn about the life cycle of a tomato plant in this worksheet for second and third graders!

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