Life Cycles

Reading and Materials List

Required Books

• What Is a Life Cycle? by Bobbie Kalman
• Who Eats What? by Patricia Lauber

Materials

Common Materials

• colored pencils or markers
• scissors
• markers
• construction paper (kit)
• glue
• hole punch
• yarn (kit)
• 3 hard-boiled eggs and 3 fresh eggs
• magnifying glass (kit)
• Science Journal (kit)
• note cards (kit)
• tape or glue
• tape
• clear plastic cups (kit)

Lesson 2

• blank white paper (kit)
• ruler (kit)

Lesson 3

• small clear bowl
• plastic knife (kit)

Lesson 4

• Life Cycle Puzzles (kit)
• penne pasta
• shell pasta
• rice
• toilet paper tube (kit)
• black pipe cleaner (kit)
• bowtie pasta
• Butterfly Kit
• craft stick (kit)

Lesson 5

• leaves
• brown construction paper (kit)
• blue construction paper (kit)
• "A Year in the Life of a Tree" booklet (kit)
• "Circle of Soil" page (kit)
• "Parts of a Flowering Plant" pages (kit)
• stuffed animals
• soil (kit)
• piece of colored rope or colored tie
• variety of seeds (kit)

Lesson 6

• poster board
• pictures of one or both parents at various stages of life
• pictures of your child at various stages of life

Lesson 7

• M&Ms
• plant and animal stickers* (7.5 - Option 2)
• "Herbivore, Carnivore, and Omnivore" page (kit)
• Warner Brothers' Happy Feet

Lesson 9

• "Design of a Butterfly" page (kit)
• juice
• crayons or markers
• straw (kit)

Final Project

• toothpicks (kit)
• foam balls (kit)
• clay (kit)
• art materials will vary

* - denotes an optional material that may or may not be used