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Plant life cycle can be one of the easiest life cycle's for students to understand and explain. It is also one of the easiest life cycle's teachers can physically show students. Having students create their own bean plant in class can further help them understand plant's life cycle, and experience it hands-on. This is fun for students, and teachers can keep students bean plants in the classroom for students to watch everyday.

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In this activity, students will observe the germination of a plant from a seed, and explore what factors are needed for growth. Planting a "Bean Garden" in a clear cup or bag provides a demonstration for how the roots, stems and leaves develop.

Plants play an important role in the natural world. Not only are they a healthy part of our meals, providing nutrients, vitamins, minerals, fibre and water, but they are also the base of the entire food web! Plants use solar energy to grow, producing sugars that animals eat to live and grow as well.

Seeds germinate or "sprout" when the moisture and temperature conditions signal to the embryonic plant inside the protective seed coat that conditions outside are good to begin to grow.

The seed grows small roots and shoots that push through the surface of the soil. The shoots develop into a small seedling-branches with leaves.

The seedling grows into a mature plant and grows flowers, fruits, leaves or nuts that contain seeds.

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In this activity, students will observe the germination of a plant from a seed, and explore what factors are needed for growth. Planting a "Bean Garden" in a clear cup or bag provides a demonstration for how the roots, stems and leaves develop. Plants play an important role in the natural world.

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This song is wonderful at furthering students knowledge on plant and animal life cycles. It's fun for elementary ages, and it's catchy as well. It gives students examples of various living organisms and their life cycle, and it can be used as an excellent hook.

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The Life Cycle Song | Science Songs | Scratch Garden

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Picture Sort - Goes along with the Amazing Life Cycle of Butterflies

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Picture Sort - Goes along with the Amazing Life Cycle of Butterflies

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This card sort is included to go along with the book, The Amazing Life Cycle of Butterflies. It's excellent practice and hands on for students. They get to sort these images in order based on their understanding from the book, and teachers can walk around and do a quick check off to see if students understood the life cycle of butterflies.

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This worksheet can be used as an individual assignment for students. It can be used as review, or to check understanding. Teachers can use this after watching any of the videos provided on this padlet, or after reading any of the resources provided. Students have the creativity to create the life cycle of any living organism of their choice. This allows teachers to check for student understanding.

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This is another great resource that can be used as individual research for students, or for whole group instruction. It talks about organisms that go through metamorphosis, and organisms that don't. It also has a chart that lists different organisms life cycles along with the stages, and an image that students can look at to see. Overall, this is really good for looking at organisms life cycle stages, and visually seeing it in an image.

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This is a great resource for this topic, because it provides kids an appropriate definition of life cycle, and the similarities and differences between animal and plant life cycles. Everything is well explained for young kids to understand, and it is easy to navigate. Students also can look at different examples of animal and plant life cycles, with explanations along with each organism. This is an excellent resource for students to navigate for their individual understanding or research, or for teachers to explain life cycle.

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A life cycle is a series of stages a living thing goes through during its life. All plants and animals go through life cycles. It is helpful to use diagrams to show the stages, which often include starting as a seed, egg, or live birth, then growing up and reproducing. Life cycles repeat again and again.
To better understand the stages of life in plants and animals...

LET'S BREAK IT DOWN!

Plant & Animal Life Cycles: A life cycle shows how living things grow and change over time.

All plants and animals go through life cycles. Just think about all the growing and changing human children do as they grow up. Children grow in height and get heavier until they reach adulthood. Children also change as their body matures.

If you have a pet, you have probably watched parts of your pet's life cycle. They are born as puppies that depend on their mothers for food and care. Between six to 18 months, puppies become adolescent dogs, with lots of energy and playfulness. After about 3 years, dogs become adults and are ready to find a mate and make more puppies. When dogs are between six and ten years old, they enter the senior stage. They like to rest more and sometimes their snouts turn gray. At the end of their senior stage, a dog's life cycle comes to an end. But that's okay because the cycle will start all over again with new puppies.

Life Cycle of an Animal: Animals start from eggs or live birth, then they grow up and mate.

Animals begin life either from an egg or as a baby that is born ready for life. Baby animals grow and change into adolescents and eventually become adults. Adult animals look for a mate to begin the life cycle all over again with new babies. Each type of animal has their own unique life cycle.

When babies are born or hatch from eggs, some look much like their parents, like kittens and horses. Other baby animals look much different from their parents, like tadpoles which will turn into frogs.

Animals that change dramatically during their life cycle go through metamorphosis. For example, a mother butterfly lays eggs that hatch into baby caterpillars. As the caterpillar eats it grows bigger and bigger, and eventually it is ready to transform into a butterfly. The change takes place inside a chrysalis, where the caterpillar's body changes into a butterfly. When the butterfly comes out of the chrysalis, it is ready to find a mate and lay eggs. Then the cycle can start all over again!

Stages of Life: All life cycles start at birth, end with death, and involve growth and reproduction.

Some living things go through their life cycle quickly, like male drone ants that live for only three weeks. Other living things have much longer life cycles, like some types of pine trees that can live for over 5,000 years!

All life cycles have a few things in common: they start with seeds, eggs, or live birth, then involve multiple steps including reproduction, and then they end in death. The cycle repeats for millions of years.

ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE CYCLE EXAMPLES

ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE CYCLE VOCABULARY

The transfer of pollen from one flower to the reproductive part of another flower. This is often done by insects that drink nectar from the inside of a flower.

ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE CYCLE DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

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Plant and Animal Life Cycles | Science Lesson For Kids | Grades 3-5

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Do you know about the different stages of the life for animals and plants? Watch our video on life cycles for kids in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade!

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This BrainPOP video is another great resource for explaining plant life cycles. Young children love these videos, so this is a great resource for teachers to show students to introduce plant life cycles. I love how this video includes that the life cycle repeats itself, with the help from all the special parts (seed, stem, etc).

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This video is great for teachers to show students to introduce the plant life cycle. It focuses just on the plant life cycle, so students are not having to watch this and focus on learning both animal and plant, so it is easier for them to understand. One thing I love about this video is that it explains the vocabulary associated with the life cycle of plants, such as seedlings, germination, and more.

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Plant Life Cycle Stages From Seed To Fruit | Primary School Science Animation

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Interactive Life Cycle Game - Bean Plant

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Interactive Life Cycle Game - Bean Plant

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This interactive game is great for students to organize their bean plant in the appropriate life cycle. This can be played once students finish growing their bean plants, because then they'd have some visual understanding of its life cycle, and then can show their understanding of what happened. This is a quick game for students and teachers, and it tells students if they got the answers correct. If not, students are allowed to re-try, and their is even an explanation under the game about bean plants life cycle.

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Bean plant Life Cycle Game Online. Biology lesson for students from 2nd to 7th grades to learn the stages in the life cycle of a bean plant.

The life cycle of a bean plant has four distinct phases which are included in the diagram above as follows: seed to seedling to sprout to young plant and finally to adult.
The life cycle of a bean plant starts with its seed germination, which lasts for six to eight weeks. The tiny stem begins pushing toward the surface of the soil, carrying the seeds and spreading them out. Once they reach sunlight, the seed leaves break through the soil surface and spread out. Once the seeds germinate, the plant is fully grown and is ready for harvesting. Its seed pods are the first sign that the plant is ready for harvesting.
Once the seeds germinate, the hard outer coating breaks, exposing the first root. The embryonic stem continues to grow, and more roots emerge from the hypocotyl. Warm conditions speed up the germination process. The cotyledon emerges, producing the embryonic leaves and shoots. As the plant grows, more leaves form, and it forms a bush or vine-like adult plant known as a pole.
At maturity, flowering plants send out pollen grains to fertilize other plant flowers. This causes a series of events. A pollen grain from another plant is sent to a receptive plant flower. It then develops in the pollen tube that extends through to the ovary and into the egg. Pollen enters the ovary and fertilizes the egg. The plant produces an endosperm and a zygote.
Seeds are also an important part of this life cycle. Seeds are capsules that contain a baby plant. The seedling grows into a young plant. At this stage, it produces its first adult leaves, which help the young plant to grow and reproduce. When the flowering stage is complete, the mature plant will bear fruit and flowers, which will continue the life cycle.
Once the bean plant has completed flowering, it will produce mature seed pods. These pods are harvested and stored as food. Once the seed pods are mature, the beans will start to form. These pods are then split and will fall off the plant. These pods will be split open when the bean plants are fully grown and ready for harvest. Then, they will grow seeds, which are the same as the beans you can see on plates.
The bean plant has a long life cycle. Its flowering stage consists of two cotyledons, a hypocotyl, and a radicle. During this stage, the plant will be in its flowering stage and will produce its seeds soon. The life cycle of a bean plant can be confusing, but if you plan to teach your students the life cycle using the interactive game at the top of this page.

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Bean plant Life Cycle Game Online. Biology lesson for students from 2nd to 7th grades to learn the stages in the life cycle of a bean plant.

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Book - The Amazing Life Cycle of Butterflies

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Book - The Amazing Life Cycle of Butterflies

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The Amazing Life Cycle of Butterflies would be a great read aloud for students to understand more about the life cycle of things like insects. This is an important resource for this topic, because it provides students to look at the life cycle of different living organisms, and a read aloud is a fun way to grasp students attention. Following this read aloud can be many different activities, such as the picture sort that I provided in this padlet that allows students to visually see the different parts of butterflies life cycle, and arrange them in the correct order.

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It's time for an amazing story!  The Amazing Lifecycle of a Butterfly!

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This Flocabulary video discusses how every living thing goes through a life cycle. The video discusses the life cycle of plants, humans, and animals, and explains how we all grow, reproduce, and create new life. This would be a great video to start students out with, to introduce what we mean by a life cycle.

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Life Cycles - Elementary Science Lesson Plan - Life Cycles - Flocabulary