Product Title
- Grades: PreK–6; recommended for ages 4+
- Number of Students: 1–4 students.
- Number of Lessons: The four-piece set can support multiple lessons or activities involving life cycles, sequencing, observation, and early biology.
- Hours of Content: The figurines are reusable manipulatives that can be incorporated into repeated science-center, small-group, and classroom activities.
- Additional Resources: Insect Lore Ladybug Life Cycle resources ; BugLand™ with Ladybird/Ladybug instructional materials ; Life-cycle observation and sequencing activities ; Insect Lore instructional guide for ladybird metamorphosis
Highlights:
- Four oversized, realistically sculpted and painted figurines
- Represents the complete ladybug life cycle
- Includes eggs, larva, pupa, and adult
- Durable, flexible plastic construction
- Designed for hands-on learning and educational play
- Supports sequencing, observation, counting, and early biology
- Oversized for easy handling by young learners
- Safety tested
- Recommended for ages 4+
Curriculum or Lesson Topics:
- Ladybug life cycle
- Metamorphosis
- Eggs, larva, pupa, and adult stages
- Insect growth and development
- Basic entomology
- Animal life cycles
- Life-cycle sequencing
- Observation and classification
- Counting and ordering
- Early biology
- Nature and environmental science
- Fine-motor and hands-on learning
Standard Alignments:
Supports early life science and biology instruction focused on animal/insect life cycles, growth and development, patterns, sequencing, observation, and scientific inquiry. The product is a supplemental manipulative rather than a standalone standards-based curriculum. Educational listings identify science, biology, animal studies, and discovery/exploration as learning areas.
What’s Included:
- 1 set of 4 ladybug life-cycle figurines
Technology Requirements/Specifications:
- No technology required
- No batteries required
- Made of plastic
- Approximately 10.2 × 7 × 1.1 inches packaged
- No assembly required
- Four-piece set
Special Notes and Considerations:
- This is a physical manipulative set, not a complete curriculum or digital learning product.
- The figurines can be mixed up so students can practice placing the four stages in the correct sequence
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The set can be used independently or as a teaching accessory with Insect Lore's Live Ladybug Land®/ladybug-raising activities.
- Recommended for ages 4 and up; small parts make it unsuitable for children under 3.
- Best suited for science centers, early-learning classrooms, small-group instruction, demonstrations, and hands-on life-science activities.
