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Life Cycles (Engage) Type: Lesson Plan Grade Level: 2nd Subject: Life Science Duration: 45-60 min Standard: S2L1 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the life cycles of different living organisms. Tag: life cycle, animals, plants, butterflies, dragonflies, beavers, deer Overview: Every living organism goes through a life cycle. This cycle is important because it allows the organism time to develop properly through each stage. Objective: Define life cycle Make predictions on the cycle of certain plants and animals Background: Every living organism goes through a life cycle. This cycle is important because it allows the organism time to develop properly through each stage. Materials: Chart paper Pencil Sticky notes Markers Life cycle pictures Ziploc bags Paper Glue Procedure: Write the word lifecycle on a piece of chart paper (Tell the students that they will be learning about a lifecycle) Give the students a few sticky notes and tell them you are going to do a quick write (when you set a timer and they have to write all that they know) about lifecycles
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Life Cycles (Engage)
Type: Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 2nd
Subject: Life Science
Duration: 45-60 min
Standard: S2L1 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the life cycles of different living organisms.
Tag: life cycle, animals, plants, butterflies, dragonflies, beavers, deer
Overview: Every living organism goes through a life cycle. This cycle is important because it allows the organism time to develop properly through each stage.
Objective:
Define life cycle Make predictions on the cycle of certain plants and animals
Background: Every living organism goes through a life cycle. This cycle is important because it allows the organism time to develop properly through each stage.
Materials:
Chart paper Pencil Sticky notes Markers Life cycle pictures Ziploc bags Paper Glue
Procedure:
Write the word lifecycle on a piece of chart paper (Tell the students that they will be learning about a lifecycle)
Give the students a few sticky notes and tell them you are going to do a quick write (when you set a timer and they have to write all that they know) about lifecycles
Give the students 2-3 minutes to write what they know or any word that is related to lifecycles
Ask students to read what they wrote and place on the chart paper. (Come back to the chart paper later)
Explain to students that a life cycle is what an organism goes through from birth to death. Give students Ziploc bags with pictures of a beaver, deer, tree, and dragonfly for them to
sort and put in the correct order. Have students do a quick gallery walk to compare their results to their classmates.
Allow a few to share the order and reasoning behind their order.
Assessment:
Discussion about life cycle definition Discussion over the ordering of their life cycle pictures
Vocabulary:
Life cycle, animal, plant
Life Cycle Sort
Life Cycle (Explore)
Type: Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 2nd
Subject: Life Science
Duration: 45-60 min
Standard: S2L1 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the life cycles of different living organisms.
Tag: life cycle, butterfly, plant
Overview: Every living organism goes through a life cycle. This cycle is important because is allows the organism time to develop properly through each stage.
Objective:
Identify the steps of the butterfly life cycle Identify the steps of the plant life cycle
Background: Every living organism goes through a life cycle. This cycle is important because is allows the organism time to develop properly through each stage.
Materials:
Plant stationo Booklet with 5-6 pageso Beads (Seeds)o Yarn (roots)o Tissue paper (Leaves and flower) o Pipe cleaner (stem)o Glueo Markerso Pencil
Butterfly stationo Paper plate divided into 4 sectionso Bead (egg)o Spiral noodle (caterpillar)o Shell noodle (chrysalis)o Bowtie noodle (butterfly)o Markers
Procedure:
Plant Station Procedure
Students will get a booklet with a page for each step of the cycle Students will use the bead, yarn, pipe cleaner, and tissue paper to show each step of the
plant life cycle.
Students will write a sentence about each stage on each page of the bookletButterfly Station Procedure
Students will need one paper plate Choose a noodle and color it Place it on the plate with the stage of the butterfly’s life cycle that it matches Label each section of the life cycle
Assessment:
After each section, answer questions about the plant and butterfly life cycle
Vocabulary:
Life cycle, chrysalis, pupa, root, stem, leaf, flower
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Life Cycle (Explain)
Type: Lesson
Grade Level: 2nd
Subject: Life Cycle
Duration: 2 45 min sessions
Standard: S2L1 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the life cycles of different living organisms.
Tag: life cycle, animals, plants,
Overview: Every living organism goes through a life cycle. This cycle is important because it allows the organism time to develop properly through each stage.
Objective: Students will show understanding of information by created a picture vocabulary book.
Background: Every living organism goes through a life cycle. This cycle is important because it allows the organism time to develop properly through each stage.
Materials: Construction paper, white paper, pencil, crayons, colored pencils
Procedure:
Create a cover using construction paper Use white paper to draw a picture that shows each vocabulary word Write a personal definition for each word
Assessment:
Completed vocabulary book
Vocabulary: life cycle, birth, offspring, development, characteristics, egg, adult, mammal, bird, amphibian, insect, germinate, seed, seedling
Life Cycle (Extend)
GOAL Students are informed about lifecycle of different plants and animals that they will see at the center
ROLE Owner of a wildlife center
AUDIENCE Elementary aged children
SITUATION You are opening a new wildlife center and some of the workers have suggested that you put our brochures showing the life cycles of plants and animals.
PRODUCT Create an informative brochure over each stage in 1 animal and 1 plant’s life cycle.
STANDARDS S2L1 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the life cycles of different living organisms.
c. Develop models to illustrate the unique and diverse life cycles of organisms other than humans.
