How living things grow up: 3rd to 5th science
Life cycles. A free 3rd to 5th lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: life cycles.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: How does a caterpillar turn into a butterfly?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (15 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: how living things grow up.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner or a small group the idea in their own words.
Practise (20 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Learn: Life Cycles (https://peabody.kids/world/science/science-life-cycles)
- Learn: A butterfly and a frog grow up (https://peabody.kids/animals/lessons/life-cycles)
- Make: Do soaked seeds sprout faster? (https://peabody.kids/science-fair/projects/seed-soaking-sprout-time)
Exit ticket (5 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about how living things grow up, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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