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Free Year 4 Living Things & Life Cycles Worksheets

2 free living things & life cycles resources for Year 4: 2 worksheets. Answers included.

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Features of living things, plants and animals, needs and life cycles. In Year 4, In Year 4 students multiply larger numbers, divide with remainders, explore equivalent fractions, decimals to hundredths, angles and area.

Students will practise: sequencing the stages of an insect life cycle; comparing complete and incomplete metamorphosis; naming larva, pupa and nymph stages; classifying insects by their life cycle; using observations to explain change; explaining why seeds are dispersed; describing ways seeds travel; linking seed features to dispersal.

Recommended learning path

  1. 1Insect Life Cycles: Complete and Incomplete Metamorphosis
  2. 2How Seeds Travel: Seed Dispersal

Worksheets

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  • Worksheet

    Insect Life Cycles: Complete and Incomplete Metamorphosis

    Students compare the four-stage life cycle of insects such as butterflies and beetles (egg, larva, pupa, adult) with the three-stage cycle…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    30 min
    Questions
    15 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Worksheet

    How Seeds Travel: Seed Dispersal

    Students learn why plants spread their seeds away from the parent plant and how seeds are carried by wind, animals, water and bursting…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    30 min
    Questions
    14 questions
    Answers
    Answers included

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What do Year 4 students learn about living things & life cycles?

Features of living things, plants and animals, needs and life cycles. At Year 4, our resources focus on: sequencing the stages of an insect life cycle; comparing complete and incomplete metamorphosis; naming larva, pupa and nymph stages; classifying insects by their life cycle.

Where should we start?

Start with the Level 1 or Level 2 worksheet, then move up a level. Finish with the topic test if there is one.

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