Life Cycles
Life Cycles: From Birth to Adulthood
Explore how living things grow, change and reproduce through this engaging life cycles resource.
Students investigate the stages of life in plants and animals, learning how life cycles are represented using circular diagrams. They compare simple life cycles in mammals, birds, reptiles and fish with the more complex processes of amphibians and insects, including metamorphosis.
Through structured activities and visual examples, students build an understanding of growth, development and reproduction, while strengthening their scientific vocabulary and observational skills.
🧩 What students will learn
- Understand that all living things have life cycles and reproduce to continue their species
- Identify and describe the stages of a life cycle using circular diagrams
- Compare simple life cycles (mammals, birds, reptiles and fish) with more complex life cycles
- Understand metamorphosis and how some animals, such as amphibians and insects, undergo significant physical changes
✅ Recommended Learning Levels
Activities are suitable for Upper Primary (Years 3–6) and can be adapted for younger or older students.
Course Content
Reptile Encounters would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land, the people of the Kulin Nation, who have never ceded sovereignty. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
