Science: Life Cycles year 5 (seven lesson unit)

Seven lessons - flip-chart and resources included and all planned from scratch. Includes life cycles of interesting and exotic animals around the world (e.g. the casswary, spiny stick insect and dugong) as well as local species:

Lesson 1: To identify the male and female flower parts and describe their function in the sexual reproduction of flowering plants
Lesson 2: LO: To understand and define the term asexual asexual reproduction and to describe the methods of
asexual reproduction in some plants (bulbs, tubers and runners).
Lesson 3: To describe the main stages in the life cycles of some mammals.
Lesson 4: To explore vegetative propogation by attempting to grow new clones of parent plants using root, stem and leaf cuttings (including experiment).
Lessson 5: LO: To describe the life cycle of birds and identify some differences in the ways different species of raise their chicks.
Lesson 6: To describe the life cycles of some insects
Lesson 7: To describe the life cycles of amphibians and the process of complete metamorphosis.

Optional: Old level 5 SATs paper: The dragonfly reading comprehension (poem linked to metamorphosis).