Learning Objectives

Through an extended project pupils should:

• Practically explore a range of plant and animal life cycles in their own neighbourhood

• Discover a range of plant and animal life cycles from other environments around the world

• Draw comparisons between these life cycles

• Consider the effects on these life cycles of outside factors

 

Suggested Strands

1. Adopt a part of the school grounds, local park or other suitable space and study the unfolding life cycles through the year.

This could be documented through photographs, Powerpoint presentations, life cycle scrapbooks.

 

2. Choose one or more plants and animals from the local environment and compare them with other plants and animals from around the world.Good examples to choose might be:

list to be finalised

 

3. If practicable plants could be grown and/or animals kept for an extended period of time or throughout the year, allowing their life cycles to be studied and documented in real time.

Good examples to choose might be:

• Spider plant (see Lesson 3)

• Chicken