Lesson Plan
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Salmon Life Cycles

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students list salmon life cycle stages in order, list three threats that salmon face throughout their lives, and examine important role native fish play in aquatic food chains throughout their life cycles.
Worksheet
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Life Cycle of Frogs: Verbs

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this verbs practice worksheet, learners read about the life cycle of frogs in 18 sentences that are missing verbs and fill in the blank in each sentence with appropriate verbs.
Handout
Cornell University

Insect IPM

For Students 4th - 5th
Find out the characteristics that makes a bug an insect with a workbook designed to inform scholars about the crawly creatures that live around us. Scholars complete an ant-themed word search, answer questions using a solution key,...
Lesson Plan
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I Wonder What the Manduca Life Cycle Looks Like

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students create their own insect, build a model of it and explain its life cycle.
Lesson Plan
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Butterfly Life Cycle

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore biology. In this life cycle lesson, 2nd graders act out the stages a caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly. They spend days prior to this lesson observing caterpillars they have collected and developing...
Lesson Plan
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The Life Cycle of the Mealworm

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders provide a habitat for live mealworms and observe their life cycle. In this animal life cycle and scientific inquiry lesson, 4th graders create a habitat for a live mealworm and observe and record related data as it grows....
Lesson Plan
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A Bugs Life: Diary of an Insect's Metamorphosis

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play games to learn about the life stages and metamorphosis of different insects. In this insects lesson plan, students discuss the life of insects, and then play matching, vocabulary, and memory games.
Worksheet
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Life Cycle: Diversity in a Balance

For Students 3rd
In this life cycle workbook, 3rd graders complete several different activities in which they analyze different invertebrates, identify arthropods, examine human biology and plants, and study natural environments. 20 different activities...
Lesson Plan
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Alfalfa Butterfly/Caterpillar Lifecycle Investigation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students collect and record data. They model specimens. Students identify sex of butterflies. They analyze data. Students make conclusions based on collected data. They compare and contrast the different groups of insects such as...
PPT
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Plant Life Cycle: Quiz Game

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Play the game, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? to review plant parts, life cycle, and pollination. There are 10 questions that get kids thinking about seeds, seed dispersal, pollination, and plant parts. This game is has audio and looks...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

Insects Tell It Again!™ Read-Aloud Anthology

For Teachers 2nd Standards
A read-aloud anthology explores the world of bees, wasps, beetles, termites, ants, fireflies, and more. Scholars listen to stories and discuss topics and practice word work. Extension opportunities keep the learning going in and out of...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Wildlife Federation

Pasta Butterfly

For Teachers K - 2nd
From an egg to an adult and the stages in between, the butterfly leads a very active life. A hands-on activity has learners act out the different life cycle stages of the butterfly before venturing on an identification expedition. During...
PPT
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Where do Butterflies Come From?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
After tapping into their memories or experiences of baby animals, viewers delve into the insect life cycle of a butterfly and the amphibian life cycle of a frog. When exploring life cycles, show this presentation to your elementary life...
Lesson Plan
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Life Cycle

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine and compare the life cycles of a variety of different animals. They analyze photos of animals and discuss any unique body parts and why those parts function they way they do. Next, they observe mealworms and...
Interactive
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Butterfly Quest

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
This worksheet calls for young scientists to create a diagram of a butterfly's life cycle and then answer a series of short-answer and fill-in -the-blank questions. The questions are broken down by the stages of a butterfly's life cycle:...
Lesson Plan
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Monarch Butterflies

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify monarch butterflies and study their life cycles. They order the stages of the life cycle and create a monarch butterfly of construction paper. This well-designed lesson should be easy to implement in your classroom.
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Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders access prior knowledge of the monarch butterfly and discuss what they would like to know.  In this Monarch Butterfly lesson,students read Monarch Butterfly and discuss the life cycle of the butterfly. Students gather...
Worksheet
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"Hey Polliwog!" - The Life Cycle of the Frog

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this life cycle of the frog worksheet, students read and assess comprehension. In this fill in the blank and sequencing worksheet, students write answers to sixteen questions.
Worksheet
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Ladybug Life Cycle Sequencing Cards

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this science worksheet, students cut out 4 illustrated and labeled cards depicting the life cycle of a ladybug. Students put the cards in order.
Lesson Plan
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Salmon in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students list the salmon life cycle stages in order. They draw a stream with the vegetation, animals, and water quality parameters that are necessary for salmon survival. Students explain the connection between animal morphology and...
Lesson Plan
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From Caterpillars to Butterflies: Life Cycles

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to a read aloud of the Eric Carle's, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and talk about the life cycle of caterpillars. They draw illustrations of the life cycle and compare it with the life cycle of another familiar...
Lesson Plan
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Life Cycles

For Teachers 2nd
Using computers, Students work in small groups and progress through the roles of Explorer, Researcher, Designer, and Evaluator as they study the life cycle of plants, insects, butterflies and frogs.
Lesson Plan
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Marine Animal Life Cycles

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study the life cycle of a crab and the larval stages of marine animals. For this marine animals lesson, students watch a puppet introduction to a crab's life cycle.  Students learn about crab moulting and their life cycle...
Lesson Plan
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Life Cycles: A Never-Ending Story

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders describe the sequence of events in the life cycles of a butterfly, frog, and a deer. They observe the differences and similarities of parents and babies. They also discover that at different stages the animals can be...