3-LS1-1 lessons
Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
The Next Generation Science Standards code 3-LS1-1 asks students to: “Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.” These Fieldbook lesson teaches it hands-on, with everyday materials, a printable teacher guide and a student sheet.
Who Lives Here? Grades 3–4
- Does every animal grow up the same way? 45–60 min
Teams get clues about the life of one animal (a butterfly, a grasshopper, a frog or a bird), order the stages, and draw a life-cycle wheel. They compare the four wheels, find what every life cycle shares and see how a butterfly's cycle differs from a grasshopper's.
NGSS is used as written in Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, so the code 3-LS1-1 matches there. Other states word and number their own versions: see curriculum alignment for your state's codes.
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