Continue the Year 5 unit on 'living things and their habitats' with this lesson on how animal life cycles are different.

In this Year 5 PowerPoint, pupils will revisit four types of organism (mammals, amphibians, insects and birds) and then investigate the life cycle of each in turn, using key vocabulary such as 'vertebrate' and 'cold-blooded'. Slides have information about the life cycle of most of each animal type, with exceptions such as platypus and salamanders explained in the notes. For tasks, children will produce a resource to show the life cycle of a chosen organism and then compare the life cycles of two organisms through writing, which could be extended into English lessons for deeper writing opportunities, or kept within Science as a chance to include writing across the curriculum.