🐛 Animal Life Stages
Watch animals grow from tiny babies to grown-ups, and follow the amazing life cycles of butterflies and frogs.
What you’ll learn
- From Baby to Grown-UpDescribe how people and animals grow through stages from baby to grown-up.Animals start life small and grow bigger through stages. People go from baby to child to grown-up, and animals like puppies grow into dogs. When animals are grown, they can have babies of their own.
- Life Cycles in NatureDescribe the life cycles of a butterfly and a frog, and understand that life cycles repeat.A life cycle is the way an animal grows and changes, and it repeats round and round. A butterfly goes from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly, and a frog goes from egg to tadpole to froglet to frog.
Questions this course answers
What is the very first stage of a dog's life?
A dog begins life as a newborn puppy, then grows bigger over time.
What does a caterpillar turn into?
A caterpillar turns into a butterfly, which then lays eggs to start the cycle again.
What is a baby frog called?
A baby frog is called a tadpole, and it swims in the water before growing legs.
What does it mean that a life cycle goes 'round and round'?
A life cycle repeats: grown-up animals have babies that grow up and have babies too.
What happens to animals as they grow?
As animals grow, they get bigger and change over time.
Grounded in trusted sources
- National Geographic Kids
- BBC Bitesize
- Britannica Kids
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