Life Processes Scope and Sequence
Concept(s):
Life cycle of animals: Butterflies and
White-Tail Deer
Life cycle of flowering plants
Science S.O.L.(s): 2.4: The student will investigate and understand that plants and
animals undergo a series of orderly changes as they mature and grow. Key concepts
include
a) Animal life cycles; and
b) Plant life cycles
Sequence
Objective:
Pre-Assessment:
Day 1
TSW Know: what a life
cycle is
TSW understand: some
plants and animals go
through life cycles
TSW: interpret a diagrams
of animal life cycles
TSW Know: what a life
cycle is and the life cycle
of a butterfly
TSW understand: animals
go through life cycles
TSW label the parts of a
butterflies life cycle
TSW Know: what a life
cycle is and the life cycle
of the White-Tail Deer
TSW understand: animals
go through life cycles
TSW identify the stages of
the life cycle of the WhiteTail Deer
Day 2
Day 3
KWL Chart
Ask the students
what they think
they stages of the
Butterflies life
cycle are.
Students will
answer this
question on their
own paper:
What are the
stages or what is
the life cycle of the
White-Tail Deer.
Activities:
Materials:
Post Assessment:
Short power point
lesson life cycles.
KWL chart, video
on life cycles,
power point,
worksheet
KWL chart (Learn
portion),
Identifying life
cycles worksheet
Identifying life cycles
worksheet
Read students Book
Power Point
Watch real
caterpillars go
through the life cycle
Pictures of the
stages of the
butterflies life
cycle, caterpillars,
mesh cage, plants.
I will place the
pictures of the
stages of the
Butterfly on the
board and the
students will label
them as a class.
The teacher will
walk around and
make sure the
students are
labeling their
diagram correctly
Video
Power point
Video
Students will label a
diagram of the life
cycle of the deer for
their notes
Power point,
video, diagram of
life cycle of the
deer
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
TSW Know: what a life
cycle is and the difference
between the life cycle of a
butterfly and the WhiteTail Deer
TSW understand: some
animals can look like their
parent from birth to
maturity rather than going
through specific stages
TSW compare and contrast
the life cycle of a butterfly
and the White-Tail Deer
TSW Know: what a life
cycle is and that some
animals can look like their
parents from birth to
maturity
TSW understand: some
animals look like their
parents from birth to
maturity instead of going
through specific stages of a
life cycle
TSW identify deer as
animals that look like their
parents from birth to
Maturity
TSW Know: what a life
cycle is and the stages of
the life cycle of a plant
Class discussion
on the life cycle of
both the deer and
the butterfly,
identifying the
stages of each
animals life cycle
Students will draw a
Venn diagram on
their own and
compare and contrast
the two life cycles.
The students will
then get in pairs and
compare their charts.
Then we will create a
master class Venn
diagram comparing
the two
Visual aids of the
life cycle of the
butterfly and the
white-tail deer
Walk around and
asses as students
are creating their
Venn diagrams,
then collect them
when the lesson is
done.
Ask the students if
they think they go
through a life
cycle? If so, what
are the stages?
Are the stages
similar to those of
the deer or the
butterfly?
Power point
KWL chart, visual
aid of the life cycle
of the White-Tail
Deer
Revisit the KWL
chart from the
beginning of the
unit and go
through what the
students have
learned up to this
point
Identify what stage of
Pictures of each
their life cycle the
stage of a plant life
caterpillars are in
cycle, diagram of a
Show students
plant life cycle
pictures of the life
The teacher will
make sure the
students
understand the
order of the life
Take a look at the
caterpillars from
the other day and
discuss whether or
not the plants that
TSW understand: plants go
through a life cycle just
like animals
TSW identify the stages of
the life cycle of a plant and
interpret a diagram of a
plant life cycle
Day 7
Day 8
TSW Know: the life cycle
of an animal and the life
cycle of flowering plants.
TSW understand: the
difference between plant
and animal life cycles
TSW construct a model of
a plant or animal life cycle
TSW Know the life cycle
of a plant and an animal
TSW understand: the stage
of the plants and animals
life cycle
TSW construct a model of
a plant or animal life cycle
they eat could also
have a life cycle
cycle of a plant and
see if they can put
them in order.
Explain each stage.
Then have the
students reorder them
if they were out of
order.
Label diagram for
notes
Go outside and find a
real life
representation of
each stage
QUIZ:
Compare and contrast Wire, sticks, paint,
Students will write plant and animal life
crayons, markers,
either the life cycle
cycles as a class
paper, construction
of a butterfly or
The students will
paper, felt, glue,
white-tail deer and
construct/draw a
quiz
the life cycle of a
model of either the
plant
life cycle of an
animal or plant
No pre-assessment
Check on
Wire, sticks, paint,
today
butterflies/caterpillars crayons, markers,
and identify where
paper, construction
they are in their life
paper, felt, glue
cycle
cycle through the
ordering the
pictures on the
board and labeling
their diagrams.
Compare and
contrast charts
Model/drawings of
life cycles and
presentations of
them
Finish models of a
plant or animal life
cycle and present to
class.
If the Butterflies have not finished their life cycle yet we will move on, but keep monitoring what’s happening