Bear Life Cycle Worksheets with Real Images | Early Science Sequencing

This Bear Life Cycle Worksheet Pack with Real Images is an engaging early science resource designed to help children explore the stages of a bear’s life through sequencing, observation, reading, and writing activities.

Using real photographs of bears rather than illustrations, this resource supports visual learners, English Language Learners (ELLs), and children who benefit from concrete, realistic representations.

The pack includes 8 unique worksheet pages, provided in both color and black-and-white versions (16 pages total), making it flexible for whole-class instruction, science centers, small groups, or independent work.

Students explore the bear life cycle through:

• A basic life cycle worksheet using real images

• Version of just text for picture matching.

• Complete version for marking or to be used as a poster

• A cut-and-paste sequencing activity, allowing learners to arrange the life cycle stages independently

Designed to support early science, sequencing, reading, and writing skills, this resource can be used across multiple age ranges and ability levels.

What’s Included

• Bear life cycle worksheets using real photographs

• Complete and incomplete versions

• Cut-and-paste sequencing activity

• Color and black-and-white versions of each page

Skills & Concepts Covered

• Animal life cycles

• Sequencing and order

• Early science inquiry

• Reading comprehension

• Written responses

• Visual discrimination

• Fine motor skills (cutting and pasting)

• Vocabulary development

Perfect For

• Preschool

• Pre-K

• Kindergarten

• Grade 1 science support

• Life cycle and animal units

• Science centers, small groups, or independent work

Differentiation & Extension Ideas

• Younger learners can sequence the life cycle using visuals and oral discussion.

• Kindergarten and Grade 1 students can label each stage, write simple sentences, or explain the life cycle in their own words using the real images as prompts.

• Use as a science center activity or as support for early science assessments.

Standards & Curriculum Alignment

CCSS (Common Core State Standards – Early Elementary / Kindergarten):

• Reading / Literacy:

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.1 – With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.2 – With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text

• Writing:

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.2 – Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.8 – Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question
  

• Sequencing / Math Connection (Optional):

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.MD.A.2 – Describe and compare measurable attributes (e.g., sequence life stages in order)

• NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards)

• K-LS1-1: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals need to survive

• 1-LS1-1: Read text and Media to describe patterns of what plants and animals need to survive

• Life Science: growth and development of animals

• EYFS (UK)

• Understanding the World: The Natural World
  

• Montessori-Inspired Learning

• Real-image vocabulary development

• Sequencing and classification

• Hands-on, child-led exploration

Teacher Tip

Print the black-and-white pages for student workbooks or coloring. Laminate the color sequencing pages for reusable science centers or small-group instruction.

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