Topic: Life Cycle

  • Let’s Learn All About Those Creepy Crawly Spiders Activity Pack

    Let’s Learn All About Those Creepy Crawly Spiders Activity Pack

    Learning about spiders can be fun! This unit includes informational articles, hands-on activities, and vocabulary posters for those creepy, crawly creatures. This unit focuses on Arachnids, Life Cycle of a Spider, Black Widow Spiders, Wolf Spiders, and Tarantulas.

    What’s inside:
    ✔ Informational Articles About Awesome Arachnids, Black Widows, Wolf Spiders, Tarantulas and Life Cycle of a Spider
    ✔ Black Widows Close Up
    ✔ Spotlight on Wolf Spiders
    ✔ Tarantulas Uncovered
    ✔ Compare & Contrast All Three Spiders–Cut-n-Sort Activity with Hidden Words
    ✔ Black Widows Fact Wheel
    ✔ Wolf Spider Fact Wheel
    ✔ Tarantulas Fact Wheel
    ✔ Labels the Parts of a Spider
    ✔ All about Spiders Fact or Opinion
    ✔ Life Cycle of a Spider Diagram
    ✔ Spiders Flip Booklet (5-pages)
    ✔ Vocabulary Flip Flaps
    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary
    ✔ Spider Vocabulary Posters

    There are lots of hands-on activities and organizers for students to show what they know. This pack can be set up as five fun activities for centers for a weeklong investigation.

    This pack includes six vocabulary posters with real-life photographs for students to connect to the information. There are several vocabulary activities included too. These colorful posters make an awesome bulletin board in a snap!

    There are three main activities in this pack:
    Vocabulary:
    Introduce the six vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters included. You could post these posters around the classroom and have students travel around to define the words in their flip-flaps that fit nicely inside their science notebooks. There is a Spotlight on Vocabulary. These colorful posters make an awesome bulletin board display too!

    Reading:
    Next, have students read the informational articles all about spiders, the life cycle of a spider and more. Read the case studies where they will learn about Black Widows, Wolf Spiders, and Tarantulas. There are organizers for each type of spider to reinforce learning.

    Activities:
    ✔ Comparing All Three Spiders (Cut-n-Sort Activity with Hidden Words)
    ✔ Black Widows Fact Wheel
    ✔ Wolf Spider Fact Wheel
    ✔ Tarantulas Fact Wheel
    ✔ Labels the Parts of a Spider
    ✔ All about Spiders Fact or Opinion
    ✔ Life Cycle of a Spider Diagram
    ✔ PLUS a 5-page Spiders Flip Booklet

  • The Signs of Spring Activity Pack

    The Signs of Spring Activity Pack

    Welcome Spring with this creative and fun activity pack! There are informational articles and activities all about everything Spring! These articles and activities are great hands-on activities for centers too!

    This activity pack has kid-friendly informational articles with comprehension questions, real-life photos, and scenes for students to color and connect to the topic. Students will learn all about Spring with articles about:
    ✔ Spring Equinox
    ✔ Buds and Blooms
    ✔ All About Robins
    ✔ Daffodils
    ✔ Tulips
    ✔ April Showers Brings May Flowers
    ✔ Cycle of Life
    ✔ Spring Fever
    ✔ Spring Cleaning

    This unit includes many interactive activities and learning opportunities for students including:
    ✔ Mystery Board
    ✔ Organizer/Poster Activity
    ✔ Scavenger Hunt
    ✔ Venn Diagram to compare Tulips to Daffodils
    ✔ Cycle of Life Diagrams for a chicken and a lamb
    ✔ Cut out pop-up Flowers
    ✔ Writing Prompts (2)
    ✔ Vocabulary Posters
    ✔ Vocabulary Flip Flaps
    PLUS…
    ✔ 6 Page Flip-up Book
    ✔ For Elementary Grades

    There are 3 main Spring-tastic Activities:
    Vocabulary:
    Introduce the vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters included relating to each section. You could post these posters around the classroom and have students travel around to match up and define the words in their flip flaps or use as a center activity. These posters are excellent for a bulletin board display too.

    Reading:
    Next, have students read the informational articles all about Spring. Have students complete the comprehension and connection questions, mystery flaps, organizer, and other activities. Go for a walk and complete the Spring Scavenger Hunt. Students could work with a partner, in small groups, or even as a center/station activity to read and complete the activities.

    Hands-on Activities:
    Have students complete the Flip-Up Booklet. Students can build the flip-up book page by page. I usually have them do one page at each center or station. They can use the articles as a reference source to help them complete the pages of the flip-up. Lastly, they cut, color, and assemble the booklet. Flip-up books can be glued or stapled inside their interactive notebooks, file folder, or a 12×18 piece of construction paper folded like a book cover.

  • Grasshoppers: A Non-Fiction and Literacy Unit

    Grasshoppers: A Non-Fiction and Literacy Unit

    Grasshoppers are the great musicians of the insect world. In honor of grasshoppers everywhere, this fun and an educational product have been created just for your class full of budding scientists.

    This product includes everything and more to learn all about these incredible insects. There are three Informational articles:
    1. Incredible Insects
    2. Amazing Arthropods
    3. Hidden Musicians (all about grasshoppers)

    Then students create and complete a flip up book which includes diet, habitat, body parts, life cycle, three facts, and cute clip art. All the information needed to complete this beautifully artistic flip up book is included in the articles.

    Plus there’s, even more, insect and grasshopper activities for students to work on in science centers or individually including:
    ✔ One page “Amazing Insects” Poster Page
    ✔ Grasshopper Organizer
    ✔ Vocabulary Flip Flap book
    ✔ Vocabulary Activities:

    Vocabulary words include:
    ✔ Arthropods
    ✔ Invertebrates
    ✔ Exoskeleton
    ✔ Metamorphosis
    ✔ Nymphs
    ✔ Molt

    ✔ Life Cycle Diagram for a Grasshopper
    ✔ From a Grasshopper’s Perspective Writing Activity
    ✔ Directions, templates, organizers, and photos of student samples of a completed book are enclosed.
    ✔ For Elementary Grades – Second grade, Third grade, Fourth grade
    ✔ Great for Core Knowledge

  • Give A Hoot for Owls: A Non-Fiction Activity Pack

    Give A Hoot for Owls: A Non-Fiction Activity Pack

    Students will love learning all about owls including Barn Owls and Snowy Owls with this creative and interactive pack!

    Owls are amazing birds! Did you know that owls are one of the oldest species in existence? Fossils of owls have been found dating back over 60 million years ago. People in countries from all over the world have always had a fascination with owls. Many cultures have made up stories or myths about owls for thousands of years.

    In this activity pack, students will learn all about Barn Owls, Snowy Owls, Life Cycle of an Owl, body parts, and how owls help humans.

    This unit includes many interactive activities and learning opportunities for students including:
    ✔ Informational articles
    ✔ Mini-booklet all about owls
    ✔ Compare/Contrast Activity
    ✔ Life cycle of a barn owl
    ✔ A Life Cycle Chart
    ✔ Color the Owls with True Facts
    ✔ Create an Owl Mini-booklet
    ✔ Owl Organizer
    ✔ Vocabulary Posters
    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary
    ✔ Owl Writing Project
    ✔ Great for the Fall Season
    ✔ Common Core Aligned

    Students will meet two owl characters:
    ✔ Meet Hoot (a barn owl)
    ✔ Meet Snowy (a snowy owl)

    There are three main activities in this pack:
    Vocabulary:
    Introduce the eight vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters included. You could post these posters around the classroom and have students travel around to match up and define the words in their flip flaps or use as a center activity. These posters are excellent for a bulletin board display too!

    Reading:
    Next, have students read the informational articles all about owls, the life cycle of an owl, body parts, and more. Read the character studies where they will Meet Hoot, a barn owl and Meet Snowy, a snowy owl. The informational articles are written in the form of a mini-booklet with questions and scenes for students to connect, color, and assemble. Pages can be stapled at the top to make a full-sized booklet or be cut in half to create a half-page mini-book. See product pictures for ideas.

    Activities:
    Have students complete the Barn Owl Mini-booklet, organizer, and writing activity to complete their study on owls. These make excellent activities to do independently at centers. They can use the articles as a reference source to help them complete the pages of the Mini-booklet. Lastly, they cut, color, and assemble the Mini-booklet. Mini-booklets can be glued or stapled inside their interactive notebooks, file folder, or a 12 x 18 piece of construction paper folded like a book cover. Students could then decorate the cover of the booklet. Hoot! Hoot!

  • The Life Cycle of a Rabbit Activity Pack

    The Life Cycle of a Rabbit Activity Pack

    Students will love learning all about rabbits with this hands-on activity pack! In this unit, there are reading passages, comprehension questions, fun activities including a flip book, and vocabulary posters!

    This unit includes reading passages about:
    ⭐ Hop to it!
    ⭐ The Rabbit Life Cycle

    There are hands-on activities to complement this unit including:
    ✔ Comprehension questions
    ✔ Organizers
    ✔ Life Cycle Diagram
    ✔ Flip Booklet
    ✔ Vocabulary Photo Posters
    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary

    There are three main activities in this unit:

    Reading:
    Read the passages all about rabbits and answer the questions on the organizers.

    Hands-on Activities:
    ✔ Flip Book:
    Answer the questions on each page of the flip book. Then cut, color, and assemble the booklet. Flipbooks are an excellent center activity for students to show what they know.

    Vocabulary Activities:
    Print out the vocabulary posters in color or black and white. Post them on a bulletin board or around the classroom. Make copies of the Spotlight on Vocabulary. Have students write the definition or to write a sentence using the word.
    There are two different versions included:
    One has an empty box for students to draw their own illustrations related to the word.
    One has an image for them to color and visualize.

  • All About Bees and Pollination & Life Cycle of a Bee Activities Craft & Passages

    All About Bees and Pollination & Life Cycle of a Bee Activities Craft & Passages

    Engage your students with a buzzing unit that brings the life cycle of a bee to life! This resource is packed with hands-on bee activities, informative bee comprehension passages and worksheets, and a creative bee craft that students will love. They will gain a deeper understanding of how bees grow from eggs to adults and the critical role they play in pollination.

    What’s Included:

    • Life Cycle of a Bee Reading Passage & Diagrams
    • Label-the-stages activity for the bee life cycle
    • Fill-in-the-blank for key vocabulary
    • Bee Craft Flip-Up Booklet : Students cut, fold, and assemble a charming booklet that illustrates each phase of the life cycle of a bee , perfect for bulletin boards or science notebooks.
    • Reading passage on pollination and how bees carry pollen from flower to flower.
    • Diagram labeling bee body parts involved in pollination
    • Short comprehension questions to check for understanding
    • PLUS a 5-page Flip Book
  • All About Those Batty Bats Powerpoint

    All About Those Batty Bats Powerpoint

    Bats are amazing little creatures that are very helpful to people! Bats are mammals just like us! But the one thing that makes bats special from all other mammals is that they can fly!

    This 26 slide Batty for Bats PowerPoint presentation has colorful graphics to help students visualize and connect with the content. It’s geared for 1st grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd-grade students.
    Students will learn all about these batty mammals with information about:
    ✔ A bat’s diet
    ✔ Body parts of a bat
    ✔ Echolocation ability of a bat
    ✔ Bat nesting habits and hibernation
    ✔ Ways bats help people
    ✔ Vocabulary slides
    ✔ 5 Question Quiz
    ✔ Answer Key
    ✔ For Elementary Grades – First grade, Second grade, Third grade
    ✔ Common Core Aligned

    ⭐ Be sure to check out the PREVIEW for more information.

    Your students will love this Batty for Bats slideshow Presentation!

    Want activities and printables to follow along with this presentation? Check out My Batty for Bats Activity Packs with many interactive activities for students including:
    ✔ 3 character bat stories
    ✔ 4 high-interest informational articles about bats
    ✔ An Uninvited Guest – a batty story featuring Xavier & Andrea
    ✔ Vocabulary Posters
    ✔ Vocabulary Flip Flaps
    ✔ Author’s Purpose
    ✔ Cause/Effect
    ✔ Batty for Bats Organizer
    ✔ A Mini Accordion Bat Book
    ✔ Compare/contrast bats and you
    ✔ Color the True Facts Bats
    ✔ Writing Prompts

    There are many ways to use the Batty for Bats Activity Pack in the classroom depending on your students and the time allotted for this unit.

    There are 4 main activities:
    Introduce the unit with the 3 fun and factual character bats: Buddy Boo, Berry Boo, and Bitty Boo. Have students write three facts they learned about their favorite bat on writing paper choices that match the bats. These look great as a display on a bulletin board.

    Next, read the “An Uninvited Guest” story and answer the questions to pique their interest and build background knowledge. These are perfect for guided reading groups with two sets of skill-based questions. This is also a great discussion starter for real-life situations involving bats.

    Introduce the 6 vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters included. You could post these posters around the classroom and have students travel around to match up and define the words in their flip flaps or use as a center activity. In addition, the vocabulary flip flaps are a great hands-on activity that works well in their interactive notebooks.

    Next, have students read the 4 informational articles and complete the Batty for Bats Organizer (2-sided). These are great for centers or group work.

    The final project is a Batty for Bats Accordion Book. There are three options to do this depending on age and time limits. They will color, cut, and build the book. Once completed it can be used as a stand-alone mini booklet or be glued inside their notebooks.

  • Life Cycle of an Ant Unit

    Life Cycle of an Ant Unit

    Your students will love learning all about ants with these creative and buggy activities!

    This Bundle includes:

    ✔ Reading passages

    ✔ Flip Booklet

    ✔ Vocabulary Posters

    ✔ 35-slide PowerPoint Presentation

    Ants are the real superstars when it comes to working as a team! Their loyalty to their colony and never-ending teamwork gives them the power to move mountains! Learn all about ants with this nonfiction resource all about ants!

    Students will be become experts about ants using this unit. It includes:

    ⭐ What ants eat? (Diet)

    ⭐ Body Parts of ants

    ⭐ Life Cycle of ants

    ⭐ Colony/Nest Building

    ⭐ Different Roles of ants

    ⭐ Teamwork

    This ants activity pack (PDF) includes many interactive buggy activities and learning opportunities for students including:

    ✔ Informational articles all about ants

    ✔ Vocabulary Flip Flaps

    ✔ 5 page Flip-Up Ants Booklet

    ✔ Mystery Flaps Activity

    ✔ Draw it! Ants Activity

    ✔ Five Different Ant Species

    ✔ PLUS…This unit includes a special look at the Ant-Man Movie and his team, too!

    Be sure to check out the PREVIEWS for more information

    There are 3 main activities:

    Vocabulary:

    Introduce the unit by showing the trailer from the “Ant-Man” movie to build their interest. Then introduce the 7 vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters included. You could post these posters around the classroom and have students travel around to match up and define the words in their flip flaps or use them as a center activity. These posters are excellent for a bulletin board display too.

    Informational articles all about Ants:

    Next, have students read the informational articles and complete the various student activity pages. For centers, use one article at each center and have them complete the related activity page or one flip up booklet page. This way they can build their Ant flip up booklet page by page! You could have students work with a partner or in small groups or independently.

    Activities:

    Students can use the informational articles to complete the different activities included in this resource. There’s a “draw it” page just for fun! Plus various other pages for them to do in centers or for fast finishers! The flip up pages can be cut out, colored, and glued into their notebooks or as a lap book project or as a stand alone booklet stapled at the very top.

  • All About Wolves Unit

    All About Wolves Unit

    Students will love learning all about wolves with this hands-on activity pack! In this unit, there are reading passages, comprehension questions, fun activities, vocabulary posters, and a flip book!

    This unit includes reading passages about:

    ⭐ The Way of the Wolf

    ⭐ The Wolf Life Cycle

    There are lots of hands-on activities to complement this unit including:

    ✔ Comprehension questions

    ✔ Organizers

    ✔ Life Cycle Diagram

    ✔ All About Wolves–cut-n-sort activity

    ✔ Flip Booklet

    ✔ Vocabulary Photo Posters

    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary

    There are three main activities in this unit:

    Reading:

    Read the passages all about wolves and answer the questions on the organizers.

    Hands-on Activities:

    ✔ All About Wolves

    Students read the statements to determine which of the statements are facts or opinions. Then they cut and paste the facts on the activity page.

    ✔ The Gray Wolf Flip Book:

    Answer the questions on each page of the flip book. Then cut, color, and assemble the booklet. Flip books are an excellent center activity for students to show what they know.

    Vocabulary Activities:

    Print out the vocabulary posters in color or black and white. Post them on a bulletin board or around the classroom. Make copies of the Spotlight on Vocabulary. Have students write the definition or a sentence using the word.

    There are two different versions included:

    One has an empty box for students to draw their own illustrations related to the word.

    One has an image for them to color and visualize.