The following group activities are required:
Activity One:
Objective: Students will be able to read, in a group, one of the following books on life cycles, and then create a story book of the life cycle of an animal with colorful illustrations and details.
For this assignment, you will be choosing your animal and reading the following book with your group. Before, during, and after reading you will need to fill out the KWL chart, which you can download below. Then do the activity that follows.
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With your group, read the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. After reading the story, create your own informational, picture book telling the story of the life cycle of a butterfly. Should include: 5-7 pages, colorful illustrations, and 3-4 sentences per page explaining what is happening.
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With your group, read the story The Life Cycle of a Chicken by Ruth Thompson. After reading the story, create your own informational, picture book telling the story of the life cycle of a chicken. Should include: 5-7 pages, colorful illustrations, and 3-4 sentences per page explaining what is happening.
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With your group, read the story Is That a Frog by Claire Llewellyn. After reading the story, create your own informational, picture book telling the story of the life cycle of a frogs. Should include: 5-7 pages, colorful illustrations, and 3-4 sentences per page explaining what is happening.
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With your group, read the story Are you a Ladybug? by Judy Allen and Tudor Humphries. After reading the story, create your own informational, picture book telling the story of the life cycle of a ladybugs. Should include: 5-7 pages, colorful illustrations, and 3-4 sentences per page explaining what is happening.
Activity Two:
Click on whichever animal you have been assigned to and watch, or look at the website/video that follows. With your group, create a poster that includes all the steps of that particular animals life cycles from what you learned from the video. Take notes on the graphic organize, provided below, to place into your binder!
After you finish watching the video, you and your group should create a poster showing all the steps of the life cycle that animal goes through. Make sure to include details and illustrations. Ms. Grey will take a picture of your finished poster so everyone has a copy of the poster in their binder.
Click on whichever animal you have been assigned to and watch, or look at the website/video that follows. With your group, create a poster that includes all the steps of that particular animals life cycles from what you learned from the video. Take notes on the graphic organize, provided below, to place into your binder!
After you finish watching the video, you and your group should create a poster showing all the steps of the life cycle that animal goes through. Make sure to include details and illustrations. Ms. Grey will take a picture of your finished poster so everyone has a copy of the poster in their binder.
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optional group activities:
Activity Three:
You and your group will be creating a song based off your animal's life cycle. Be sure to include all the changes that your animal goes through. Everyone needs to be involved. It should have once stance, or paragraph, per person in your group, but work together! Be prepared to sing your song in front of Ms. Grey! :)
Activity Four:
You and your group are assigned to act out the life cycle of your animal. Be sure to include everyone in your acting. That means, one person can do one step, another then next step, and so on. There should be a narrator to tell what happens. Make sure to write down a script and film this. When you are ready to film, get Ms. Grey and she will set up a camera. There should be props and everyone should have a part! Have fun with this. Don't leave anything out.
Activity Five:
You and your group are reporting on the life cycle of your animal. You will be writing a news report, once a week, reporting on a different stage of the animal each week. You will be working together to write this news report. It should include a different stage each week, but the last week you may need to combine the last two stages. That's okay! What will people need to know about your animal? What physical changes is it going through during that stage that people should know?
Activity Six:
In this activity, you will be working with your group to compare your animal's life cycle to a plant's life cycle. You will watch and participate in the online simulation that is below, and take notes on it to place into your learning binder. Each person in every group should have their own notes in their binder. Then, download the Venn Diagram to fill out the differences and similarities of a plant's life cycle and your animal's life cycle.
You and your group will be creating a song based off your animal's life cycle. Be sure to include all the changes that your animal goes through. Everyone needs to be involved. It should have once stance, or paragraph, per person in your group, but work together! Be prepared to sing your song in front of Ms. Grey! :)
Activity Four:
You and your group are assigned to act out the life cycle of your animal. Be sure to include everyone in your acting. That means, one person can do one step, another then next step, and so on. There should be a narrator to tell what happens. Make sure to write down a script and film this. When you are ready to film, get Ms. Grey and she will set up a camera. There should be props and everyone should have a part! Have fun with this. Don't leave anything out.
Activity Five:
You and your group are reporting on the life cycle of your animal. You will be writing a news report, once a week, reporting on a different stage of the animal each week. You will be working together to write this news report. It should include a different stage each week, but the last week you may need to combine the last two stages. That's okay! What will people need to know about your animal? What physical changes is it going through during that stage that people should know?
Activity Six:
In this activity, you will be working with your group to compare your animal's life cycle to a plant's life cycle. You will watch and participate in the online simulation that is below, and take notes on it to place into your learning binder. Each person in every group should have their own notes in their binder. Then, download the Venn Diagram to fill out the differences and similarities of a plant's life cycle and your animal's life cycle.
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