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Instructor: Constance Castro
**Unit:** How Animals Grow and Change **Lesson:** What are some animal life cycles? **Teacher Name:** Shelly Carius **Grade:** 2nd **Abstract:** Students will complete a performance task that requires them to collaborate with others in order to investigate the life cycles of an amphibian, an insect, and a bird. The students will play the role of park rangers who are presenting information to a second-grade class on a field trip. Each group member will research a differnt animal's life cycle using the internet and to help their understanding by completing a life cycle diagram for the animal's life cycle using Kidspiration. Each student will also give an oral report on that animal's life cycle. As a culminating activity, the students will complete a Venn diagram using Kidspiration to compare and contrast the life cycles of the three animals

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