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Life Cycles of Frogs, Dragonflies, and Butterflies

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Title:

Life Cycles of Frogs, Dragonflies, and Butterflies

URL:

https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.cyc.lp_lifecycle/life-cycles-of-frogs-dragonflies-and-butterflies/

Content Source:

PBS

Type:

Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

Students explore similarities and differences in the life cycle of organisms and are introduced to the process of metamorphosis. This lesson deepens students' understanding of the similarities and differences in the life cycles of organisms. The lesson begins with a reading of Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Next, students use a video to study the developmental stages of frogs, dragonflies, and butterflies. They compare insect and frog life cycles to each other and to the stages of human development.

Content Standard(s):

Science
SC2015 (2015)
Grade: 3

6 ) Create representations to explain the unique and diverse life cycles of organisms other than humans (e.g., flowering plants, frogs, butterflies), including commonalities such as birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

NAEP Framework

NAEP Statement::
L4.5: Plants and animals have life cycles. Both plants and animals begin life and develop into adults, reproduce, and eventually die. The details of this life cycle are different for different organisms.

Unpacked Content

Scientific And Engineering Practices:

Developing and Using Models

Crosscutting Concepts: Patterns

Disciplinary Core Idea: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Create representations to explain the unique life cycles of organisms other than humans.
Create representations to explain the diverse life cycles of organisms other than humans.
Identify relevant components (organisms, birth, growth, reproduction, and death) of their representations.
Describe relationships between components in their representations.

Teacher Vocabulary:

Create
Explain
Representations
Unique
Diverse
Commonalities
Life cycles
Organisms
Birth
Growth
Reproduction
Death

Knowledge:

Students know:

Organisms are born, grow, reproduce and die in a pattern known as a life cycle.
Organisms have unique and diverse life cycles.
An organism can be classified as either a plant or an animal.
There is a causal direction of the cycle (e.g., without birth, there is no growth; without reproduction, there are no births).

Skills:

Students are able to:

Create representations to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
Explain the unique and diverse life cycles of organisms other than humans.
Explain commonalities of organisms such as birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

Patterns of change can be used to make predictions about the unique life cycles of organisms.

AMSTI Resources:

AMSTI Module:
Heredity and Diversity

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SCI.AAS.3.6- Observe and recognize the major stages (birth, growth, reproduction, and death) in the life cycles of organisms other than humans (e.g., flowering plants, frogs, butterflies).

Tags:

butterfly, dragonfly, Eric Carle, frog, life cycle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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Author:

Stephanie Carver

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Life Cycles of Frogs, Dragonflies, and Butterflies