Grade 3 Science lesson plan: Plant & animal life cycles
Topic: Life cycles of plants and animals (3-LS1-1). Adjust the settings, then copy the prompt.
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Prerequisite skills to check: what plants and animals need to survive and grow (K-LS1-1); young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents (1-LS3-1); putting events in order.
Warm-up idea: Show photos of a tadpole and a frog, or a caterpillar and a butterfly, and ask whether they could be the same animal.
Exit ticket idea: Students draw and label the life cycle of a bean plant or a frog, then name the stages every living thing shares: birth, growth, reproduction and death.
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