CA Science Content Standards – Grade 2
State standards in this lesson plan are for example only. This lesson can be easily adapted to meet your state's specific standards.
#2 Plants and animals have predictable life cycles. As a basis for understanding this concept:
a. Students know that organisms reproduce offspring of their own kind and that the offspring resemble their parents and one another
b. Students know that sequential stages of life cycles are different for different animals, such as butterflies, frogs and mice