Grade Pk-K Links- Life Science - Growth and Change

Grade Pk-K Links- Life Science - Growth and Change
Overarching Question: In what ways do living things change?

Living things grow and change.
	Brain Pop - Metamorphosis http://www.brainpop.com/science/plantsandanimals/metamorphosis/index.weml
	Animals in our Backyard - Nature Trail at Pocantico http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/trail/trail.htm
	Germination - http://library.thinkquest.org/3715/germ6.html
	Growing Plants http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/growing_plants.shtml
	Play the Seed Cycle http://www.sparkisland.com/public/free_activities/seed_cycles/#

Plants, animals and insects have life cycles - made up of different stages.
	Something Froggy http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow9/jun99/p-page_one.shtml
	Life Cycle - Frog http://www.tooter4kids.com/Frogs/life_cycle_of_frogs.htm
	Butterflies and Caterpillars http://www.usborne-quicklinks.com/usa/usa_entity_pages/usa_select_page.asp?lvl=1&id=1239
	Butterfly Life Cycle http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/schools/beal/curriculum/butterfly/cycle/index.htm
	What are the Seasons http://www.arboretum.fullerton.edu/grow/primer/seasons.asp

Life cycles vary for different living things
	Change - Life Cycles

Metamorphosis is one of the ways that living things change
	Butterfly Life Cycle http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/schools/beal/curriculum/butterfly/cycle/index.htm

Living things that grow by metamorphosis go through a series of distinct stages from egg to adult.
	Children's Butterfly Site


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