Exploring Life Cycles

Explain how the little boy knows it’s spring.

It’s Spring!

Standards

RI.K.2

Explain how you can tell if something is alive and what all living things need to survive.

What’s Alive?

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L.K.4L.K.6RI.K.2RI.K.3

Explain how seeds change as they grow and what they need in order to change and grow.

How a Seed Grows

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RI.K.2RI.K.3

Explain how seeds change into sunflowers and what happens at each stage.

From Seed to Sunflower

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L.K.4L.K.6RI.K.3RI.K.4RI.K.7

Explain how the tiny seed survives.

The Tiny Seed

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RL.K.3

Explain how animals are an important part of a plant's life cycle.

Who Will Plant a Tree?

Standards

RI.K.3

3 days

Write a story about a seed that travels from one place to another.

Standards

L.K.1L.K.1.eL.K.2W.K.3W.K.5

Retell key details about the stages in a frog’s life cycle.

Frogs pp. 1–21

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RI.K.2RI.K.3

Identify additional details about each stage of a frog’s life cycle.

From Tadpole to Frog

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RI.K.3RI.K.9

Write an informational text to teach about a frog’s life cycle.

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L.K.1L.K.2W.K.2W.K.7W.K.8

Predict the stages in a butterfly’s life cycle and what happens at each stage.

Waiting for Wings

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RI.K.3RI.K.7

Explain what Merian learned about butterflies and why this was important.

Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian

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RI.K.3RI.K.7

Describe the stages in a butterfly’s life cycle and what happens at each stage.

From Caterpillar to Butterfly

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RI.K.3RI.K.9

Write a book that teaches about each stage in a butterfly’s life cycle.

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L.K.1L.K.2W.K.2W.K.7W.K.8

Explain why the nesting bird was not making any noise.

Have you Heard the Nesting Bird?

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RI.K.2RI.K.3

Explain what happens at each stage of a bird’s life cycle.

A Nest Full of Eggs pp. 1–23

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RI.K.2RI.K.3

Describe the life cycle of a chicken.

Egg to Chicken (Follow the Life Cycle)

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L.K.4L.K.6RI.K.3RI.K.9

3 days

Write a story about a baby bird hatching from an egg.

Standards

L.K.1L.K.1.eL.K.2W.K.2W.K.3W.K.5

Explain how the other animals treated the little duckling and how it made him feel.

The Ugly Duckling pp. 1–12

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RL.K.2RL.K.3

Explain what the duckling learns about himself and what lessons we can learn from him.

The Ugly Duckling

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RL.K.2RL.K.3

Discussion

Discuss unit essential questions.

Standards

SL.K.1SL.K.2