大象传媒

Watch: What are lifecycles?

A lifecycle is the different stages of life for all living things, including humans.

Learn about different lifecycles.

Back to top

Stages in a lifecycle

There are normally four major events in the lifecycle of animals:

birth - growth - reproduction - death

These events happen at different stages. Here's an example of a cat's lifecycle:

Image caption,
A kitten is born, it grows into an adolescent and then an adult, it reproduces, then it grows old and dies.
Back to top

Watch: The beginning of a bird's lifecycle

Learn about what it takes to raise a baby bird.

Back to top

Watch: Lifecycle of a butterfly

All animals have a lifecycle, including invertebrates. This is the lifecycle of a butterfly.

Learn about the different lifecycles.

Back to top

A frog's lifecycle

Most amphibians go through metamorphosis during their lifetime. Here's an example of a frog's lifecycle.

Back to top

Activities

Test your knowledge of lifecycles with the activities below.

Activity 1: Lifecycle quiz

Back to top

Activity 2: Quiz

Back to top

Activity 3: Create a mobile

You will need: card, a stick, colouring pencils or felt tips, scissors, string

  1. Decide which lifecycle you would like to make. You could focus on the lifecycle of a butterfly, frog or human.
  2. Fold your card into quarters and cut into 4.
  3. In each quarter draw a stage of the lifecycle.
  4. Attach the first stage to the stick using string.
  5. Add the rest of the stages either along the stick in order or you could hang them down in order using the string.

You could add some information about each stage on the back of your drawing.

Back to top

Bitesize Primary games. game

Play fun and educational primary games in science, maths, English, history, geography, art, computing and modern languages.

Bitesize Primary games
Back to top

More on Living things and their habitats

Find out more by working through a topic