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Science · Pre-K

Growing and Changing Living Things

Children learn that living things grow and change, while things like rocks and balls do not. They match young animals to grown-ups, put the steps of a chick's and a frog's life in order, and measure a growing plant with blocks to see that it gets taller over days.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 35 minutes
  • Growing and changing check: 4 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, count, match pairs, put in order and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Recognize that living things grow and change over time, and that nonliving things like rocks do not grow.
  • Put three steps of an animal's life in order, such as egg, chick, hen.
  • Measure a plant's height with blocks or paper clips and compare to tell whether it grew.

Lessons

  1. Living things grow 3 steps2 practiceabout 12 min
  2. Life in steps 4 steps1 practiceabout 11 min
  3. Measure how much it grew 4 steps2 practiceabout 12 min
  4. Growing and changing check 4 questions at the end

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