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3rd grade · Science · Unit 6 of 12

Animal Life Cycles

Eggs, larvae, tadpoles and chicks

What your child practices

Life cycles of butterflies, frogs, chickens and mammals, and how some animals change a lot while others look like small adults.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 3.5 · life cycles of frogs, butterflies and other animals

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Some animals change shape a lot as they grow, like butterflies and frogs.
  2. Others, like mammals, look like small adults and drink milk from their mother.
  3. Frog: egg, tadpole, tadpole with legs, adult frog.

Example: Which drinks its mother's milk when young: a calf or a chick? Cows are mammals. Mammal babies drink milk. Answer: a calf

Animal Life Cycles in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 6 of 12 in 3rd grade Science, after Life Cycles and before Basic Needs & Life Cycles.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which animal has a tail when it is young but not when it is an adult?

    • 🐸a frog
    • 🐈a cat
    • 🐕a dog

  2. Question 2

    A butterfly's first stage is a…

    • egg
    • adult
    • chrysalis

  3. Question 3

    What does a chick come out of?

    • 🐛a cocoon
    • 🌱a seed
    • 🥚an egg

  4. Question 4

    A puppy grows up to be a…

    • 🐕dog
    • 🐎horse
    • 🐈cat

  5. Question 5

    Which animal drinks milk from its mother when it is young?

    • 🐸a tadpole
    • 🐥a chick
    • 🐮a calf

  6. Question 6

    What is the next stage in a frog's life cycle? Egg, tadpole, tadpole with legs, then…

    • chrysalis
    • chick
    • adult frog

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