HOW DO LIVING THINGS GROW AND

CHANGE?

Science
Indicator 1
Boston International School
OBJECTIVE
Understanding the importance of animals and
plants, and learning varieties of these
Learning objective:
Learning what kinds of living beings exist
and identifies some of these in different
ecosystems.
 BIBLICAL PRINCIPLE
Dominion and responsibility.
Psalms 50: 10-11
For every beast of the forest is
mine, The cattle on a thousand
hills. I know every bird of the
mountains, And everything that
moves in the field is Mine.
 VOCABULARY
LIFE CYCLE: The changes that happen to an
organism during tis life.
METAMORPHOSIS: A series of changes in
appearance that some organisms go through.
LARVA: The stage of complete metamorphosis after
an organism hatches from its egg.
PUPA: The stage of complete metamorphosis where
an organism is wrapped in cocoon or a chrysalis.
INHERIT: To have trait passed on from parent
 Project: The seed of the
plant
Students will individually sow seeds and
observe their growth. They will write in a
diary about their experience in the activity
and conclude what seeds need to grow and
also what they need to grow in their Christian
life.
DUE DATE: March 23, 2017
 Can animals transform
as they grow?

Where do the trees

come from?
Plants grow and change

Organisms grow and change

during their lives. You saw seeds
grow into young plants.
The changes that happen to an
organism during its life make up
its life cycle.
PLANT LIFE
CYCLE
Plant life Cycle

1. The root appears first. The

shoot is pushed above the ground.
2. The shoot begins to sprout into
a leafy plant.
3. True leaves begin to grow
The adult pant has flowers and
beans.
Plants growing!!
 PLANT LIFE
CYCLE

Exercise: Let students

organize the plant life cycle
 https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=V5RSpMQQOpw
How a Caterpillar
Becomes a
Butterfly
 HOMEWORK
Its your turn to
be a scientist and
researcher!!
Search:
What is the
butterfly life cycle?
 ANIMAL
METAMORPHOSIS
Animal life cycle

Like plants, animals grow and

change during their life spans, or
the time from birth to death.
For some animals the series of
changes in appearance is called
metamorphosis.
 Check out this
video!!
https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=3pOsKcs78C4

FROG CYCLE LIFE!!

Your Turn!!
READING TIME pages 60-
68
 BOSTON INTERNATIONAL
SCHOOL
Principle of the month - March
2017:
Fear of the Lord
Proverbs 9:10
New King James Version (NKJV)
10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of
wisdom,
And the knowledge of the Holy One is
understanding.