Curated OER
Seed Plants: Angiosperms
Middle schoolers describe flowering plants and see why angiosperms are the most successful plants. In this angiosperms lesson students identify angiosperms and explain how they reproduce.
Curated OER
Creating a Food Web
Students investigate hunters and prey by creating a food web. In this animal life instructional activity, students investigate a single organism in preparation for a field trip, discovering its diet and habitat. Students each...
Curated OER
Mealworm Metamorphosis
Students observe offspring (mealworms) that do not initially resemble their parent organism (darkling beetles) throughout complete metamorphosis. They also create and maintain an appropriate habitat for the mealworms.
Curated OER
An Antidote to Plagiarism
Young scholars discover how to write a research paper without directly copying written material. They read a passage, then record on the board any words that are new for them. They define these words, then organize their facts to create...
Curated OER
Macroinvertebrate Sampling
Young scholars identify macroinvertebrate species to investigate ecological systems and the relationship between humans and the environment.
Curated OER
Magnificent Metamorphosis
Young scholars discover stages in metamorphosis through up close and real encounters with video, hands-on investigative and interactive activities using mealworms.
Curated OER
If It Smells Good, Is Edible, and Attracts Wildlife, Then It's a Practical Garden
Students explore landscape design. In this practical gardening lesson, students design landscape plans that call for shrubs, trees, and plants that can be used for aesthetics, cooking, and wildlife.
Curated OER
Folk Remedy Collection Worksheet
In this folk remedy collections worksheet, students collect and record data once they interview people about remedies to various ailments.
Curated OER
Plant Reproduction
In this plant reproduction learning exercise, students complete a crossword puzzle with 36 questions. They identify the different plant reproductive features.
Curated OER
Mushroom Prints
Students create a mushroom spore design on paper while studying the facts on fungi.
Curated OER
Explorit's Biology Quiz
In this biology worksheet, students complete a five question on-line interactive multiple choice quiz about animal biology. This quiz has more advanced material.
Earth Life
Earth Life/life Cycles of Insects
A vey in-depth look at the life cycle of insects. You will learn about the metamorphisis and reproduction of insects.
Other
American Mosquito Control Association: Mosquito Life Cycle
Learn about the life cycle of mosquitos, from the egg to adulthood, including the environment necessary for each stage.
Other
Curriki: Butterfly Life Cycle Lesson Plan
Project to learn about the life cycle of a butterfly and how the caterpillar becomes to be a butterfly.
Utah STEM Foundation
Utah Stem Action Center: Life Cycles
All living things go through a life cycle that repeats over and over again. Watch a video, answer discussion questions, and make a fun craft out of household items.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Life Cycle of a Mosquito
Gives a basic explanation of the life cycle of a mosquito along with some facts about this insect.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Students learn about the life cycle of a butterfly and put the stages of a butterfly's life cycle in order in this SMART whiteboard activity.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Gives a basic explanation of the four stages in the life cycle of a butterfly.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Third Grade Science: Life Science: Insect Reproduction and Life Cycles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Compares and contrasts the major stages in insect life cycles, such as those that undergo incomplete and complete metamorphosis.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Entomology: Larva
Article on the types and function of larvae in the animal life cycle.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Very Busy Students: Writing With Eric Carle
In this interdisciplinary unit addressing science and language arts standards, English Language Learners will learn the life cycle of insects. They will also use the writing of a renowned children's author, Eric Carle, as a model for...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Insect Reproduction and Life Cycle
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Most insects can reproduce quickly within a short period of time, which means they evolve faster and can adjust to environmental changes. Most reproduce by sexual...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Pond Insect Investigation
Insects are found in every habitat. Students will learn about the life cycle of insects by exploring Minnesota ponds and the insects that live in them.
EL Education
El Education: The Study of Life Cycles
Students learn about various insects and use original text and illustrations to create a book including information such as habitat, life cycle, diet, behavior, predators, and other interesting facts.