A fun, foldable activity for exploring the life cycle stages of a bean plant. This printable mini-book would make a great follow-up activity after growing your own beans! Alternatively, use in an interactive science notebook, or for a plants, growing, or seasonal changes unit activity.
Benefits of this activity
- Low prep
- Children learn about the bean plant life cycle in a fun and hands-on way, that’s a bit different from a standard science worksheet
- Can be used to introduce the life cycle, or as a review/assessment to check understanding.
- Encourages fine motor/scissor skills, hand-eye coordination (folding), and sequencing.
- Differentiated options allow for multiple age ranges or abilities to do the same activity.
- Finished foldouts can be inserted into an interactive notebook where they can be referenced by children.
The differentiated templates
There are 5 similar cut and paste templates in the PDF so you can select the one that best suits your needs:
Template 1: Colour the life cycle of a bean plant, cut, and fold.
Template 2: Colour the bean plant life cycle stages, cut out the word labels and match them to the pictures, glue, cut and fold.
Template 3: Colour the bean plant life cycle stages, cut out the life cycle stages, sequence the labels on the template, glue, cut and fold.
Template 4: As above but with a rectangle around the outside for easier cutting.
Template 5: Largest version. Pupils will colour the template and life cycle stages, sequence the stages, glue, cut and fold.
This is a 10-page PDF. The pictures and text are not editable. UK and US version included.
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