Life Cycles Links

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Lesson 1: Review of Organisms

Lesson 2: Living, Dead, or Nonliving

Lesson 3: Plant or Animal

http://www.webinstituteforteachers.org/~agrosenheider/plant.html This site lets kids click on organisms to tell if it is a plant or animal. Choose the "Am I a plant or Animal?" for this feature. Watch out for the watering can icon - it will give you a sound if your mouse goes across it.

Lesson 4: Where Do Seeds Come From?

http://www.glenview34.org/wb/LivingThings.htm Examine the different life cycles of different plants and animals.

Lesson 5: Planting Seeds

http://www.glenview34.org/wb/LivingThings.htm Examine the different life cycles of different plants and animals.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/satoyama/transform.html Watch different animals transform.

http://www.fossweb.com/modules3-6/StructuresofLife/activities/lifecycles.html Use this website for students to arrange animals in the correct stage of their life cycle.

Lesson 6: Development and Growth of Plants

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/index.html The Great Plant Escape provides students with a reading and problem solving investigation where they learn about the parts of a plant and what each part does.

http://library.thinkquest.org/3715 This site, created by a class of students, explains the parts of a plant along with other useful information.

Lesson 7: Experiments with Plants

Lesson 8: The Great Seed Hunt

Lesson 9: Seeds or Eggs

Lesson 10: Young Crickets and Tadpoles

http://www.miamisci.org/avocado/tadpoles/default.html Page about tadpoles by a second grade class. Includes observations from experiments and provides information about tadpoles.

http://www.tooter4kids.com/Frogs/life_cycle_of_frogs.htm Informative site about the life cycle of a frog.

Lesson 11: Development and Growth of Animals

Lesson 12: Fruit Flies

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/ant/Antlifecycle.shtml Shows the life cycle of an ant as a printable resource.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/amphibians/label/froglifecycle/labelanswers.shtml Shows the life cycle of a frog as a printable resource.

Lesson 13: Moths

http://lucas.osu.edu/gm/tufc.htm Great informative site on the life cycle of the gypsy moth.

Lesson 14: Mealworms

Lesson 15: Butterflies

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/butterflies/metamorphosis.html The Museum of Natural History's site that describes the stages of a butterfly's metamorphosis.

http://www.ent.iastate.edu/imagegal/lepidoptera Great images of butterflies and moths are presented.

Lesson 16: Hunting for Life Cycles

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