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Lesson 6
Biological sciences
GROWING AND CHANGING
Lesson plan
Introduction:
1. Show students a clip from the movie A bug’s life, depicting the caterpillar becoming a butterfly, at
. What animal is this meant to be? Does it look the same when it is
born as it does as an adult? QP
2. In pairs, ask students to draw what they know about what a butterfly looks like from birth to
becoming an adult. QP
Development:
3. In small groups, students rotate through six stations set up with images from pages 23–25 of
the stages that bees, ants, beetles, ladybugs, fruit flies and butterflies go through from birth
to becoming an adult. Do not label the stations with the insect names and do not include the
numbers of each stage (this is for teacher reference). Allow students two minutes to work out which
insect it is, and which order the images belong. Students write the name of the insect they believe
it is on a strip of paper and place it next to the ordered images. Students take a digital photograph
of the arranged images and the name of the insect. PC
4. As a class, go through each insect at the stations and correctly identify them and how they look as
they grow. Students can compare this to their photograph. Ask students if they observed anything
about how each insect looked. How did they all look at birth? What did they look like next? How are
they all similar? PA E
Note: At the end, students should be able to recognise that insects go through predictable stages
of egg, larvae (worm), pupae and adult, without having to name the stages. Students simply need to
be aware that the characteristics of insects from birth to adulthood are predictable and the same.
5. Individually, students complete page 26, detailing what they learnt about the growth and change
of insects. C
Differentiation:
• Less capable students can draw and write simple sentences to complete page 26.
• More capable students can write more detailed information for the different stages of insect
development on page 26.
Reflection:
6. Students use a character interview format and pretend they are either an ant, butterfly, beetle, bee
or fruit fly, and a partner has to ask them questions about their life, how old they are and what they
look like, based on what they have learnt during the lesson.
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