Engage your students in meaningful, fun learning experiences around the life cycles of a butterfly, frog, chicken and plant! These plant and animal life cycle materials include activities and lesson plans, worksheets, crafts, writing activities, leveled books, centers materials, science activities, and more. To kick off the unit, your students will first explore the differences between living and nonliving things, and will then learn about how living things grow and change during their life cycles. This unit addresses science, reading, and writing, and the materials will last for at least 8 weeks! Topics Covered in the Plant and Animal Life Cycles Bundle: - Living / Nonliving - Life cycle of a butterfly - Insect body parts - Frog life cycle - Chicken life cycle - Oviparous / viviparous (animals that lay eggs and those that don't) - Parts of a plant - Plant life cycle Materials Included in the Plant and Animal Life Cycles Bundle: - 39 plant and animal life cycles lesson plans - Printable worksheets and cut-and-paste activities - Graphic organizers - Posters - Vocabulary cards and posters - Writing activities - 16 printable student readers on plant and animal life cycles - Suggested readaloud books and websites for teaching life cycles - 6 life cycle crafts, with step-by-step photos - Readaloud / shared reading passages - Literacy centers - Math centers and games For more information, please download the FREE preview!