Classroom printables, activities & worksheets
Life Cycles
Use this collection of life cycles teaching resources when studying plants and animals in your primary classroom. The collection includes several posters and worksheets which clearly explain the life cycles of a range of organisms. Also included are life cycle sorts which allow your students to physical move pieces around to represent the life cycles of plants and animals.
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Life Cycle of a Chicken - Poster
A poster to display when learning about the life cycle of a chicken.
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Science Pattern Match Cards
A set of 89 task cards to help students learn about patterns in nature.
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Life Cycle of a Butterfly Concertina Activity
A cute activity where students re-create the life cycle of a butterfly.
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Five Wonders Theme Park: Slither House Sketch – Project
An inquiry projects for students to research animals and their habitats for a reptile house in a theme park.
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Comparing Life Stages Worksheet
An open-ended task for students to demonstrate their understanding of how animals grow and change.
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My Life Stages 'Lift the Flap' Template
A template to use when learning about human life stages.
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Human Growth and Change Sorting Activity
A fun sorting activity to help students identify the behavioural and physical changes humans experience at different life stages.
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Sequencing Life Cycles Worksheet
An activity for students to use when learning about life cycles.
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Silkworm 'Lift the Flap' Life Stages Template
An activity for students to use when learning about life stages.
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Eggs-ellent Dominoes
A set of dominoes to use in the classroom when investigating animals which lay eggs.
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Grasshopper Life Cycle - Blank Template
A blank grasshopper life cycle template to use in the classroom when learning about minibeasts.
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Minibeast Life Cycle - Blank Templates
A set of blank life cycle templates to use in the classroom when learning about minibeasts.
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Bean Growth Experiment
An experiment for students to observe the growth and change of a plant.
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Silkworm Life Cycle Sort
Help your students concrete their understanding of silkworm life cycles with this interactive game.
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Silkworm Life Cycle Poster
An educational poster displaying the life cycle stages of a silkworm.
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Butterfly Life Cycle Poster
An educational poster displaying the stages of a butterfly's life cycle.
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Butterfly Life Cycle Sort
Help your students concrete their understanding of life cycles with this interactive game.
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Numbat Life Cycle Sort
Help your students concrete their understanding of the numbat life cycle with this interactive game.
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Fly Life Cycle Sort Activity
Help your students concrete their understanding of the fly life cycle with this interactive game.
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Plant Life Cycle Sort
Help your students concrete their understanding of the plant life cycle with this interactive game.
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Frog Life Cycle Sort
Help your students concrete their understanding of the frog life cycle with this interactive game.
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Marine Primary Producers
Use this poster to demonstrate the role of primary producers in the marine ecosystem food chain.
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Growth and Change Teaching Resource Pack
An extensive collection of teaching resources to use when learning about growth and change.
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Minibeasts Teaching Resource Pack
This extensive collection of minibeasts resources includes educational posters, classroom decorations, word wall templates, page templates and worksheets for you to mix and match with your class.
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Growth and Change Unit Plan
This Biological Sciences unit explores how living things grow and change. Animal offspring (including humans) are compared with their parents and plants are grown from seed in order to observe change over a period of weeks.
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Changes, Changes Everywhere!
An assessment task in which students will demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of how living things grow and change.
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Big Changes!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop their understanding of the concept of metamorphosis.
