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Following Generations in the Museum Story Garden

Use museum garden records to compare robin, sunflower, and mushroom life cycles and model how one generation leads to the next.

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15 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: Science
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer, Drawing

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What students practice

Students identify birth, growth, reproduction, and death in different life cycle records.
Students compare life cycles and connect reproduction to a new generation.
Students model how changes in one life cycle lead to the next stage.

How to use

Read the Story Garden records aloud or with students. Have students point to evidence in the records before completing the model and written response.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

3-LS1-1

Model that living things have different life cycles that all include birth, growth, reproduction and death.

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Following Generations in the Museum Story Garden

Trace how different living things begin, grow, reproduce, and die.

Read the Story Garden records

The Children's Museum keeps a Story Garden where visitors observe living things. Read the numbered records and use them to answer the questions.

Records from the Story Garden

11. In April, a robin built a nest beside the Story Garden path. A few days later, an egg cracked open, and a hatchling appeared. The hatchling had downy feathers and could not fly. Over the next several weeks, its feathers grew, its wings became stronger, and it began to fly. Later, the adult robin built another nest and laid eggs. In autumn, museum workers found the old robin dead beneath a tree.

22. In May, a sunflower seed in the garden sprouted. A small stem and leaves pushed above the soil. The plant grew taller and opened a flower. After the flower dried, it made seeds. The plant later dried up and died. Some of its seeds remained in the soil.

33. In June, a mushroom cap appeared on a damp log. After several days, the cap released tiny spores. Museum educator Noor placed a few spores on another damp piece of wood. Later, threadlike growth appeared there, and a new mushroom cap formed. The first mushroom eventually dried out and died. The new cap could release spores of its own.

What happened after the robin egg cracked open?