Free teacher web sites for Science topic ‘Life - Life cycles’

A nice visual site with clickable images from Oxford Museum. Shown as a cyclical image rather than a linear one.

External link: Human and frog life cycles

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A great selection of text about life cycles and growing old. The text is great for upper KS2 use. Please do check this thoroughly before use to see if it fits in with your school's policy on teaching life cycles.

External link: Human life cycle explanation

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Cartoon style images ideal for sequencing. For KS1 and KS2.

External link: Life cycle of a flowering plant

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Beautiful easy to read explanations and simple clip art - this is a great site for younger Ks2 and Ks1.

External link: Life cycle of a frog and life story of a bean

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Life cycle of a frog and plant. There are labelling activities too.

External link: Life cycles

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Frog, human and plant lifecycles are presented. There's a great resource to match names to the parts of a flower and also name the stages of a plant lifecycle such as germination etc...

External link: Life cycles activities

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A very simple quiz - encourages sequencing of the life cycle of a human. Good for Ks2.

External link: Life cycles of humans quiz

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NWN have a fantastic presentation which is suitable for upper KS2. Label parts of the plant and flower. Winner! Scroll down the page and click on the appropriate QCA link.

External link: Life cycles presentation

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Wonderful images of a butterfly life cycle for you to view.

External link: Photographs of the life cycle of a butterfly

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