Life Cycle Project

Life Cycle Short Story Project

Directions: Pick any type of organism you like, and research the life cycle of that organism. Create a short story about the life cycle. You can not pick the mealworm/Tenebrio Beetle or ladybug.

Life Cycle Short Story MUST include the following:

· Pictures or illustrations. Can be hand drawn, computer generated, or clipped from magazines/books.

· Must identify the type of life cycle: complete metamorphosis or incomplete metamorphosis.


· Must use scientific language. In other words, properly name the stages in the life cycle.

· Short story will be no more than 8 pages long; place one sentence on each page.


· All Life Cycle short stories are due no later than next Thursday, February 19th!!

Your project doesn’t have to be neat, it MUST be neat!!!!

Please be creative!!!!!!!!!!!!

3rd Nine Weeks

This nine weeks, the 5th grade will be focusing on Life Science. Your child should know the following vocabulary words, and be able to explain them:

• Ecosystem • Thrive • Ill • Perish • Modify • Adapt • Characteristics
•Species •Survive •Reproduce • Niche • Traits • Inherited • Learned • Photosynthesis
• Carbon cycle • Nitrogen cycle • Water cycle

We will be working on the following:
Science- Focus 3.1/Growth and Life Cycles -Focus 3.2/Food Chains and Webs
Focus 3.3 /Inherited Traits, Adaptations and Learned Behavior
Focus 3.4 /Habitat

Social Studies-Focus 3.1/ The Constitution and Bill of Rights
Focus 3.2 /The U.S. Grows
Focus 3.3 /Civil War and Reconstruction