Insect Life Cycles Worksheet
This Insect Life Cycles Worksheet has 2nd grade students put butterfly and grasshopper stages in order and name each stage. An answer key is included for easy checking.
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Description
The Insect Life Cycles Worksheet shows second graders that not every insect grows up the same way. Some insects go through complete metamorphosis, with four stages that look nothing alike. Others go through incomplete metamorphosis, where the young insect already looks like a small adult. On one page, students compare a butterfly and a grasshopper and see both kinds of change side by side.
The top row of this Insect Life Cycles Worksheet holds four colored-pencil pictures of a butterfly’s life: eggs on a leaf, a striped caterpillar, a green chrysalis, and an adult monarch. The bottom row holds three pictures of a grasshopper’s life: an egg pod in the soil, a wingless nymph, and a winged adult. The pictures are printed out of order, so students number each card to show the order of the life cycle, then write the name of the stage on the line using the word box (adult, egg, larva, nymph, pupa). A short sentence under each heading explains the difference between the two kinds of metamorphosis. A complete answer key is included on the last page.
What’s Included
- One printable worksheet page with seven colored-pencil life cycle pictures
- A butterfly row for complete metamorphosis and a grasshopper row for incomplete metamorphosis
- A word box with the stage names egg, larva, pupa, nymph, and adult
- A numbering box and a writing line inside every picture card
- A complete answer key page
Three Reasons This Helps Kids
- Putting the stages in order builds the sequencing skills that science and reading both use.
- Seeing the two life cycles next to each other makes the difference between complete and incomplete metamorphosis easy to spot.
- Writing larva, pupa, and nymph turns new science words into vocabulary students can use.
Teacher and Parent Ideas
Use this 2nd grade insects worksheet to start a unit on bugs, to review before a classroom butterfly garden, or as a quick check after a science read-aloud. Ask students to tell a partner one way the nymph and the larva are different. Take a walk outside and look for insects, then decide together which kind of life cycle each one has. Early finishers can draw the life cycle of a ladybug or a dragonfly on the back.
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