Many Kinds of Life Cycles

Model life cycles that are different: a grasshopper, a sea turtle, an alligator, a ladybug.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 50

Not every life cycle looks the same! A grasshopper hatches as a nymph: a small grasshopper with no wings. It grows wings as it gets bigger. No chrysalis!
A ladybug changes completely, like a butterfly. Its larva looks like a tiny alligator! Then it becomes a pupa, then a ladybug.
Loggerhead sea turtles lay their eggs in the sand on Georgia's beaches. The hatchlings crawl to the ocean and grow up at sea.
Alligators live in Georgia's swamps. The mother guards her nest, then carries her hatchlings to the water, gently, in her mouth!
Your turn! Put a ladybug's life cycle in order.

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science:

S2L1.d — Develop models to illustrate the unique and diverse life cycles of organisms other than humans.