A Plant's Life Cycle

Order seed, sprout, seedling, adult plant, flower, fruit, and new seeds.

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

What children learn in Level 55

Plants have life cycles, too! A bean plant starts as a seed. It sprouts, then becomes a seedling with its first leaves.
The seedling grows into an adult plant. Roots take in water; leaves use sunlight to make food.
The adult plant makes flowers. The flowers turn into pods full of new seeds. Plant them, and the cycle starts again!
An apple tree's cycle is the same idea: seed, seedling, young tree, a tree with flowers, and apples with seeds inside.
Your turn! Put a sunflower's life cycle in order.

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science:

S2L1.b — Plan and carry out an investigation of the life cycle of a plant by growing a plant from a seed and by recording changes over a period of time.