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Life Cycle Circle
Draw the four stages of an animal’s life cycle around a circle: frog, butterfly or chicken.
- Grades
- 1–5
- Time
- about 25 minutes
- Topic
- Math and science
- Kids practice
- life cycles, sequencing, scientific drawing
What kids do
“Life goes around in a circle. Draw each stage!”
- The life cycle of a:
- Draw the four stages in order, going around
- The most surprising stage is… because…
How to run it
- Read a short nonfiction book about one life cycle first.
- The boxes go around clockwise: 1, 2, 3, 4.
- Compare a frog with a chicken: what’s the same?
Talk about it
- Which stage changes the most?
- Do people have a life cycle?
- Why is it drawn as a circle?
Take it further
Draw the life cycle of a plant on the back.
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