1. What are the similarities and differences between the different life cycles?
2. Plant Life Cycle
2.1. What happens to a seed to make it grow into a plant?
2.1.1. Question: What are the three things that plant needs to grow?`
2.1.1.1. Key Idea: Plants need three main important thing to grow
2.1.1.1.1. Water
2.2. Key Idea: The four life cycles of a plant
2.2.1. Seed
2.2.2. Sprout
2.2.3. Flower
2.2.3.1. Bud
3. Essential Question
4. Key Idea: Stages of the life cycles
5. Question: How many stages are there for each cycle?
6. Technology
6.1. iPad
6.2. Smartboard
6.3. Youtube
6.4. Weebly
7. Standards
7.1. Science Standard 2:Information Systems
7.1.1. Key idea
7.1.1.1. Information technology is used to retrieve, process, and communicate information and as a tool to enhance learning.
7.1.1.1.1. Select appropriate hardware and software that aids in word processing,creating databases telecommunications,graphing,data displays and other tasks.
8. Key Idea 4: The continuity of life is sustained through reproduction and development
8.1. Performance Indicator 4.1
8.1.1. Describe the major stages in the life cycles of selected plants and animals
8.1.2. Plants and animals have life cycles. These may include beginning of a life, development into an adult, and eventually death.
8.1.2.1. 41b: Each kind of plant goes through its own stages of growth and development that may include seed,young plant and mature plant.
8.1.2.1.1. Each generation of animal;s goes through changes in form from young to adult. This completed sequence of changes in form is called a life cycle. Some insects change from egg to larva to pupa to adult.
9. Technology Standard:
9.1. 1. Creativity and innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
10. Key Idea: Caterpillars need food, air, and space to live and grow.
11. Question: How does a chrysalis transform into a butterfly?
12. Butterfly Life Cycle
12.1. Egg
12.1.1. Caterpillar
12.1.1.1. Chrysalis
12.1.1.1.1. Butterfly