This Digital Curation focuses on the life cycles of:
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Frogs
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Butterflies and white-tailed deer
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Plants
A variety of resources for students have been utilized including videos, websites, pictures, and games. In additon, there is a teachers resources section.
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Image Credit: By USDA photo by Scott Bauer [Public domain], via
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This curation directly addresses the following 2nd grade Virginia standards of learning:
Life Processes
2.4 - The student will investigate and understand that plants and animals undergo a series of orderly changes as they mature and grow. Key concepts include
a) animal life cycles; and
b) plant life cycles.
Once the curation has been explored, the student should understand:
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Plants and animals undergo changes over time and differ among species.
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Some animals go through distinct changes and others look like their parents from birth and do not undergo dramatic change.
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The basic life cycle of flowering plants.