Module 16: Cycles of Life- Science 3 - Course Guide

Module Overview:

In this module, students will learn to illustrate the life cycle of an animal and a plant, describe each part of an animal’s and plant's life cycle, and make connections between all life cycles.

Module Materials:

Lesson # Lesson Title Material(s)
1 Life Cycle of an Animal None
2 Life Cycle of an Insect None
3 Life Cycle of a Plant seeds (various, collected from food);

Module Objectives:

Lesson # Lesson Title Objective(s)
1 Life Cycle of an Animal
  1. Illustrate the life cycle of an animal.
  2. Describe each part of an animal’s life cycle.
2 Life Cycle of an Insect
  1. Illustrate the life cycle of an insect.
  2. Describe each part of an insect's life cycle.
3 Life Cycle of a Plant
  1. Illustrate the life cycle of a plant.
  2. Describe each part of a plant’s life cycle.
  3. Make connections between all life cycles.

Module Key Words:

Key Words
life cycle
animal
insects
metamorphosis
plants
animals

Module Assignments:

Lesson # Lesson Title Page # Assignment Title
1 Life Cycle of an Animal 6 Life Cycle Drawings Assignment
2 Life Cycle of an Insect 6 Insect Life Cycle Drawings Assignment
3 Life Cycle of a Plant 7 Life Cycle Connections Assignment

Learning Coach Notes:

Lesson # Lesson Title Notes
1 Life Cycle of an Animal After completing this lesson, ask your student to describe the different life cycles of the animals they learned about in this lesson.
2 Life Cycle of an Insect After completing this lesson, ask your student to explain the two types of insect life cycles. How are insect life cycles different from other animal life cycles?
3 Life Cycle of a Plant After completing this lesson, ask your student to explain the life cycle of a plant.

Module Guiding Questions:

When a student starts a lesson ask them questions to check for prior knowledge and understanding and to review concepts being taught. At the end of the lesson ask the questions again to see if their answer changes.

Lesson Title Question
Life Cycle of an Animal
  1. What is the life cycle of an animal?
Life Cycle of an Insect
  1. What is the life cycle of an insect?
Life Cycle of a Plant
  1. What is the life cycle of a plant?

Module Video Questions:

When a student watches a video take time to ask them questions about what they watched. Suggested questions for the videos in this module are listed here. Suggestion: Have the student watch the entire video first all the way through. Then have them watch the video a second time, as they watch it pause the video and ask the questions.

Lesson Title Video Question

Module Suggested Read Aloud Books:

Take time to read to your student or have them read aloud to you. Read a different book each day. While reading the book point out concepts being taught. You may purchase these books or find them at your local library. Suggested things to discuss while reading the book:

  • What is the main idea?
  • What are three things new you learned?
  • How does this book relate to what you are learning about?

# Book Author Lexile Level
1 Life Cycles: Everything from Start to Finish DK and Sam Falconer

Module Outing:

Take some time to apply what your student is learning to the real world. Suggested outings are below.

# Outing