Life-Cycle Sequencing Cards

A grades 1–4 page for ordering butterfly, plant, and frog life-cycle stages and explaining the sequence.

A life cycle becomes easier to talk about when students can put the stages in order.

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This text-based page includes four butterfly stages, four plant stages, and five frog stages. Students order the descriptions, then retell one cycle using first, next, then, and finally.

Read the cards aloud, invite drawings alongside the words, or explore one organism at a time. Connect the final stage back to the beginning to show the cycle continuing.