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This Digital Curation focuses on the life cycles of:

 

  • Frogs 

  • Butterflies and white-tailed deer 

  • Plants

A variety of resources for students have been utilized including  videos, websites, pictures, and games.  In additon, there is a teachers resources section. 

 

 To view these resources, click here.

Image Credit:  By USDA photo by Scott Bauer [Public domain], via

Wikimedia Commons

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:

 

  • Plants and animals undergo changes over time and differ among species.

  • Some animals go through distinct changes and others look like their parents from birth and do not undergo dramatic change.

  • The basic life cycle of flowering plants.

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