![]() Included in the whole packet are diagrams for the parts of a plant, a word search full of vocabulary words, a sunflower sequencing strip, as wells a journal for growing your own sunflower. Included in our sunflower printables are other learning activities and life cycle of a sunflower worksheet to aid in the learning process of all about sunflowers. Learning the life cycle of the sunflower plant is educational and great for young readers. There is nothing better than watching your children learn to love gardening and the growth of beautiful flowers and veggies. Spring is a wonderful time to watch as seeds turn into seedlings and then into the ground. We highly encourage teaching children about gardening and the love of gardening. They will see them form roots and understand the benefits of watering and the bract of the flower. This is when children can learn to plant their sunflower seeds and watch them grow. These lessons are great to bring out during the Spring months as well. It is also to learn about the parts of the mature plant from the flower head to the tiny seed to the wispy roots and how those parts then with the plant life cycle create the seeds to start it all over again and create food sources. Learning the sunflower life cycle is a great way for kids to learn to grow their sunflowers from small seeds to sprouts to mature strong plants. If you love them too, then you won't want to miss our other popular packets including Months of the Year Worksheets, Measurement Worksheets For Kids, and Days of Week Worksheets. The mature plants and full grown sunflower plants are tall plants and create some magical fields. The beautiful colors of varieties of sunflower plants can be as colorful as Fall leaves. In our town, we even have an annual sunflower maze similar to a corn maze around Halloween time. There is something so incredible about enjoying the single stem large head of the sunflower of a beautiful sunflower in late Summer and Fall in the United States and North America. This blog post shows step by step how to plant the seeds (please scroll down).Paper Plate Sunflower Sunflowers and Fall I like to plant beans in both a clear jar and in plastic baggies on the window because students can see the seed sprouting and growing. The easiest life cycle for students to experience themselves is the plant life cycle. This video by NG Science explains and shows the chicken life cycle in a simple, easy to understand way. We have only visited them at the farm, but I feel that it would be a wonderful experience for young students to actually see them hatch! This blog post by One Kreative Kindergarten has everything you need to know about hatching chicks in your classroom. Personally, I have never been able to hatch baby chicks with my students in the classroom. It is great to use if you can’t grow frogs on your own. This video by the Dodo shows the stages of the frog life cycle. I don’t have experience with growing frogs from tadpoles in the classroom, but Home Science Tools has some options that other teachers have used. ![]() This time-lapse video from NatGeoTV and this time-lapse video of the Life of a Monarch Butterfly are both great for showing the stages of a butterfly. If you would like to order caterpillars for your classroom and observe them changing into butterflies, Insect Lore has a number of options as well as accessories. Luckily there are plenty of videos available that show real-life examples of the life cycles that students can watch and observe when the real thing is not possible. When teaching the life cycles, I have only been able to do real-life examples of the butterfly and plant life cycles with students but there are places where you can get frog eggs and chicken eggs for students to observe (listed below). ![]() To me, there is no better way for children to learn than to actually observe and interact with what they are learning about. Whenever possible, I love being able to allow children to make real-life observations. It’s catchy, fun, and gets students excited about what is to come. When introducing our life cycle unit, I like this song & video from YouTube. When teaching life cycles, I like to teach a number of them (butterfly, frog, chicken, plant) one at a time and then compare and contrast them at the end. They can start to see how things change and grow. Teaching young children about life cycles helps them better understand nature and the world around them.
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