The Life

Cycle
of Humans
and
Animals
What's the difference
between you and
newborn babies?

What can you do that they can't?

What do you still need to learn?

Today we'll learn about

• what "life cycle" means

• the life cycle of humans
• common life cycle stages in
animals
• interesting animal life cycles
What is a life cycle?

A life cycle is how living things grow

and change during different stages of
their life.

It includes reproduction, or how

living things in the adult stage
produce more of their kind.
 birth
All animal born as an egg or a live young

life cycles growth

have the continues to grow and learn skills (like
same four moving and communicating)

stages. adolescence
also called juvenile; experiences bodily
changes due to hormones

adulthood
fully grown for reproduction
 Can you match
these stages to
human life cycle?
toddler

birth child
baby

growth

adolescence adults

teenager

adulthood
The Human Life Cycle
You are now at
this stage!

birth baby

child

growth toddler

adolescence teenager

adulthood adults
The "cycle" in life cycle toddler

baby
child

It means that stages go

back to the start and
Reproduction
repeat.

Adults can take part

in reproduction to produce adults teenager
a baby—and the cycle
starts again!
Fact Break
Lifespan varies
in length.
The life cycle includes a
living thing's lifespan or the
time between birth and death.

The mayfly can live for only

These animals can 24 hours, while a dragonfly
live more than a
has a lifespan of up to three
hundred years! Can
you name them? months.
What about the life
cycle of animals?

Are they all born the same way?

What stages do we have in common?

 Butterfly
Some animals
hatch from eggs.
This adds another stage to a life
cycle. Some animals have more Frog
than others.
 Which stages look similar?
Which are different?

Butterfly
eggs larva pupa adult

Frog
eggs tadpole tadpole with legs froglet adult
 Strange Stages
Some animal life cycles have uncommon stages.

Duck-billed Platypus

It lays eggs (like birds) but still

has fur and feeds its baby with
milk like any other mammal.
 Strange Stages
Some animal life cycles have uncommon stages.

Kangaroo

It gives birth to a not yet fully

formed baby called "joey," born
the size of a jellybean. A joey
continues to grow in its mother's
pouch.
 LET'S REVIEW
There are Animals and humans
common have similar and
stages in all different stages.
animal life
cycles. Humans and other animals are born
This includes birth, growth, as babies (called live young), but
adolescence, and adulthood. other animals start out as eggs.
 Think about it

Choose a baby animal and

compare it to when you were
a baby.
How are you the same and
different?