Websites
- Foss Web is an excellent site that provides kids with interactive games and fact sheets about many different topics. For this unit they have a great section on plant and animal life cycles. The website can be found at: http://www.fossweb.com/
- Sheppards Software is a kid friendly site that lets students explore a variety of topics related to what they are learning in class. The page on life cycles has games that track the stages of butterflies, frogs, and many other animals. This website can be found at: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/scienceforkids/life_cycle/butterfly_lifecycle.htm
- This website from Teams Educational Resources goes through the life cycle of a butterfly, frog, flower, and tree. This game is particularly good for students because along with the animation are sentences that describe what is happening at each stage. This website can be found at: http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/judi/life/activities/cycles/life_cycles.html
- This website from LearnthingsLimited is an activity for students to go through and test their knowledge on parts of a plant and plant life cycles. This website can be found at: http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/Phase2delivery/Wales/Science/Keystage2/Lifeprocessesan/Lifecycles/Introduction/activity1pop.htm
- CrikWeb is a website that also has lots of topics for students to chose from and play their games. They have an entire section on life cycles with interactive games focusing mainly on plant life cycles. This website can be found at: http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2science.html#lcycles5b