SMART Technologies
Smart: Human Life Cycle
In this whiteboard lesson, students explore the stages of human life and draw comparisons with different animals. A variety of diagrams are provided to help communicate this concept.
Other
Reproduction in Plants and Animals
Reproduction in Plants and Animals. The ability to produce more organism similar to themselves is a very important characteristic of all living organisms. The process by which they do so is known as reproduction. [0:21]
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Maximum Life Span of Animals Time Line
A time line showing the life spans of various animals.
University of Florida
Florida Museum of Natural History: Animals 2: Insects and Spiders
This teacher's guide focuses on the smaller animals that inhabit our world: insects and spiders. These fascinating creatures provide young children many hands-on opportunities to learn about the diversity of living things, how living...
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Animal Quizzes
Links to science quizzes about animals and birds. Topics include animal classification, butterfly, beetle and frog life cycles, spiders, bats, birds of prey, owls, birds of the jungle, rainforest, cold climates and migration.
BBC
Bbc Schools: Ks2 Bitesize: Science: The Living World
This landing page includes learning modules on the following topics of: animals, plants, microorganisms, life cycles and reproductions, food chains, habits, humans and the environment, adaptation, inheritance, and evolution.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Life Cycles
[Free Registration/Login Required] Through this unit, children learn that plants and animals reproduce as part of their life cycle and that in every life cycle there are distinct processes and stages. They should begin to understand how...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Is Alive?
This lesson is the opening lesson for a unit of study entitled "Why Doesn't A Caterpillar Grow Up To Be An Oak Tree?" during which students take a look at life cycles of plants and animals. This lesson will encourage students to explore...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 3: A Log's Life
Third graders learn about the interdependence of animals and trees in nature and the cycles of growth and decay. Students also learn about the importance of preserving balance in nature and what happens when we upset that balance. While...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Hawaii: What Are the Life Processes in Animals?
Kamoku is a boy from Hawaii who is interested in the seven life processes. Do you know what these are? Join Kamoku and discover them with him.
Oakland Zoo
Oakland Zoo: Black Widow Spider
Learn all the basic facts about black widow spider including description, habitat, diet, life cycle, adaptations, and social structure.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Pond Life Animal Printouts
Filled with printable pages of both plant and animal pond life, Enchanted Learning features fact sheets with color pictures.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Rock Hyrax (Procavia Capensis)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the rock hyrax, an unusual mammal that looks like a rodent yet is related to the elephant. Discusses its physical characteristics, distribution and habitat, behavior and lifestyle, life cycle,...
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Butterfly (Papilionoidea)
Illustrated entry describes the Butterfly with details about its habitat, physical characteristics, diet, life cycle, and other facts.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Orang Utan (Pongo Pygmaeus
Provides photographs and a fact card about the orangutan. Discusses where they are found, the two species types, physical characteristics and anatomy, distribution and habitat, behavior and lifestyle, life cycle, diet, predators,...
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Panther (Panthera Pardus)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the panther. Discusses where they are found, their classification, anatomy and physical characteristics, distribution and habitat, behavior, lifestyle, reproduction and life cycle, diet,...
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Patas Monkey (Erythrocebus Patas)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the patas monkey. Discusses other names for it, where they are found, anatomy and physical characteristics, distribution and habitat, behavior, lifestyle, reproduction and life cycle, diet,...
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the polar bear, a species that is threatened. Discusses their classification and evolution, physical appearance, distribution and habitat, behavior and lifestyle, life cycle, diet, predators,...
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Proboscis Monkey (Nasalis Larvatus)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the proboscis monkey. Discusses their classification and evolution, physical appearance, distribution and habitat, behavior and lifestyle, life cycle, diet, predators, interesting facts, threats...
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Puffin (Fratercula Arctica)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the puffin. Discusses their classification and evolution, physical appearance, distribution and habitat, behavior and lifestyle, life cycle, diet, predators, interesting facts, threats from...
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Puma (Felis Concolor)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the puma, also known as a cougar or mountain lion. Discusses where they are found, their classification, anatomy and physical characteristics, distribution and habitat, behavior, lifestyle,...
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Pygmy Hippopotamus (Choeropsis Liberiensis)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the pygmy hippopotamus. Discusses where they are found, their classification, anatomy and physical characteristics, distribution and habitat, behavior, lifestyle, reproduction and life cycle,...
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Quetzal (Pharomachrus)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the Quetzal, a tropical bird. Discusses where they are found, their classification, anatomy and physical characteristics, distribution and habitat, behavior, lifestyle, reproduction and life...
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Quokka (Setonix Brachyurus)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the quokka, a marsupial. Discusses where they are found, their classification, anatomy and physical characteristics, distribution and habitat, behavior, lifestyle, reproduction and life cycle,...