3rd Grade · Science
Plant and Butterfly Life Cycles
Free printable 3rd Grade science worksheet: Plant and Butterfly Life Cycles. It practices comparing life cycles (NGSS 3-LS1-1). For ages 8-9. Download the PDF, print it, or fill it in online.
Fill in or color online- Grade
- 3rd Grade
- Subject
- Science
- Skill
- Comparing life cycles
- Ages
- 8–9
- Standard
- 3-LS1-1
- Format
- A4 PDF · print or fill in online
About this worksheet
“Plant and Butterfly Life Cycles” is sheet 6 of 32 in our free 3rd Grade Science Worksheets collection, written for children aged 8–9. It focuses on comparing life cycles.
In the set it comes after “Life Cycle of a Frog” and before “Inherited Traits”. Working through them in that order, one sheet a day, builds the skill a step at a time.
What this worksheet practices
3-LS1-1 · Next Generation Science Standards · Grade 3
From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
Children explore how the parts of plants and animals help them survive, grow and respond.
How to use this worksheet
- 1
Do the pendulum and balloon investigations for real. The data sheet is only interesting when the numbers are the child’s own.
- 2
For the traits sheets, look at family photos together and talk about which traits are inherited and which are learned.
- 3
Keep a weather chart for a week before the graphing sheet, then compare it with the graph on the page.
