Students read about the life cycles of a butterfly, a frog and a flowering plant, put each stage in order, match young to adults and explain how living things change as they grow.
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Completed: Life Cycles: Butterfly, Frog and Plant
Year 3 students (typically ages 7–8) working on living things & life cycles. It is pitched at level 1 · easier; an easier version is linked above.
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About 25 minutes for 14 questions. Short, regular sessions work best: two or three a week beats one long one.
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Read each life cycle carefully. Remember: the stages always go in the same order.
Read about the three life cycles. Then circle the best answer.
A life cycle shows how a living thing is born, grows, makes new living things and starts the cycle again.
Butterfly: egg → caterpillar → chrysalis → butterfly. The caterpillar eats and grows. Inside the chrysalis it changes into a butterfly.
Frog: egg → tadpole → froglet → frog. A tadpole lives in water. It grows legs, and its tail gets shorter as it becomes a froglet.
Flowering plant: seed → seedling → adult plant with flowers → new seeds. The new seeds can grow into new plants.
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