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March 28, 2016 By Karen Whiteside

Ideas for Teaching Life Cycles


Need ideas for teaching life cycles to your students throughout the school year? Winter, spring, summer, or fall: we have your covered with hands-on ideas! All these life cycle activities help extend children’s understanding of the natural sciences. Whether you prefer your students to write, cut, paste, draw or assemble, we have made the life cycles hands-on and fun throughout the year.

life cycle activities for fall, winter, spring, summer

Spring Life Cycle Activities

Complement your plant units with our eye popping sunflower activity

life cycle of a sunflower

 

 Need something more visual for younger learners? Grab this plant life cycle activity!

plant unit activity

We have a life cycle activity for the very popular hatching of spring chicks!

spring life cycle activity

chick life cycle ideas

Make all your walls flutter and your students’ understanding soar with this adorable butterfly craft and activity!

spring science butterfly sctivity

Here is a closeup of the butterfly life cycle. I had my students attach pipe cleaner to make antennas!

butterfly life cycle unit activity

Summer Life Cycle Activities

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! This ice cream literacy and  life cycle activity is definitely a treat!

ice cream cover

Winter Life Cycle Activities

Teach your students how they can help save our fuzzy cuddly polar bear with this polar bear craftivity!

polar bear unit ideas graphic organizer

Part of the polar bear activity is a “CAN, HAVE, ARE” activity!

polar bear activity

 

Waddle into winter with our penguin life cycle activity!

penguin science activity unit idea graphic organizer

Lift up the penguin’s beak and draw his diet!

penguin activity

We take our life cycles into a more creative realm with our popular snowman! They make adorable winter wall displays!

snowman activity life cycle craft

Christmas Life Cycle Activities

Avoid the baking clean up and write about making gingerbread cookies! With this gingerbread life cycle writing activity.

gingerbread life cycle activity

Decorate your Christmas tree this season with our Christmas writing activity! Draw your beautiful tree, assemble the tree life cycle, and write all about it in this activity!

decorate your tree writing activity

 

Fall Life Cycle Activities

Before heading to the pumpkin patch create our Science Pumpkin Activity. Label, paste, and stack this cute display!

pumpkin activity

 

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Have fun learning and creating!

Karen

 

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