Insect Life Cycle Labelling

Year 5 ScienceLiving Things and Their Habitats2 pages

About this worksheet

A labelling sheet for Year 5 science on the life cycle of an insect, shown through a butterfly. Six photographs sit in a clockwise circle with arrows between them: eggs on a leaf, a larva hatching, a striped caterpillar, a green chrysalis, a butterfly coming out and an adult butterfly. Pupils label stages A to F from a six-word word bank that uses the terms larva, pupa and chrysalis. The answer key on page 2 gives the stages in order. It links to the England National Curriculum life cycles objective.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Living things and their habitats

โ€œDescribe the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a birdโ€

Partly met. The sheet covers the insect life cycle only. Pair it with a mammal, an amphibian or a bird to compare.

Living things and their habitats

โ€œDescribe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals.โ€

Partly met. The cycle starts with eggs and ends with the adult that lays them, but reproduction itself is not described.

What's inside this worksheet

The Life Cycle of an Insect

A word bank of six stages and a circle of photographs with label lines A to F.

Answer key

The six stages in order, from A, eggs, to F, adult butterfly.

How teachers use it

Compare with a frog

Lay this sheet next to a frog life cycle and ask pupils which stages match and which happen only in the insect.

Key words

Point out larva, pupa and chrysalis in the word bank. Pupils can use them in their own life cycle writing afterwards.

Live caterpillars

If your class keeps a butterfly kit, use the sheet as a record and tick each stage as it happens.

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