Science

Animal life cycles

An AR classroom game for Grade 2. Learners can aim with their hands at the camera or play by tapping the screen.

This set has 4 rounds in an interactive ordering activity.

Curriculum indicatorว 1.2 ป.3/3

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A look before you play

Sample questions

A few real prompts from the game to help you choose an activity for your class.

01
Put the life cycle of a frog in order.
- adult frog
- egg
- tadpole
- tadpole with legs
Read the explanation
Frogs lay eggs in water; tadpoles breathe through gills before coming onto land.
02
Put the life cycle of a chicken in order.
- adult chicken
- chick
- egg
- young chicken
Read the explanation
A hen lays an egg, it hatches into a chick, and the chick grows into a hen.
03
Put the life cycle of a fly in order.
- adult
- chrysalis
- egg
- larva
Read the explanation
Many insects pass through a pupa stage before becoming adults.

Before you play

Game teaching guide

What children will practise

Orders the life cycles of a frog, a chicken, a fly and a bean. It matches indicator ว 1.2 ป.3/3 (modelling and comparing animal life cycles); question 4, the bean, links to ว 1.2 ป.2/3 (flowering plant life cycle).

What's in the worksheet

4 questions, an ordering game with four stages each - Frog: egg > tadpole > tadpole with legs > adult frog - Chicken: egg > chick > young chicken > adult chicken - Fly: egg > larva > pupa > adult - Bean: seed > seedling > grown plant > pods form

How to use it in class

Use it after a clip or pictures of life cycles and before children draw their own cycle, about 5 minutes in teams. Afterwards, compare which animals change shape a lot (frog, fly) and which simply grow (chicken). Children may find the fly unpleasant: connect it to covering rubbish bins to break the cycle. You can link it to a class and record it in the gradebook. In English mode, question 3 labels the fly's ดักแด้ as chrysalis, a butterfly word; for a fly it is a pupa. For question 4, add that the pods hold new seeds, so the cycle loops back to the start.

Common sticking points

- Question 1: swapping tadpole and tadpole with legs, never having seen the legs appear. Show pictures of all four stages first. - Question 3: swapping larva and pupa, not knowing flies have a larva. Explain that the maggots in rubbish are young flies. - Question 2: swapping chick and young chicken because ไก่รุ่น is an unfamiliar word.