Insect Life Cycle Notebooking Page
Use these Insect’s Life Cycle Notebooking printables when your students are learning about six-legged insects and how they grow, go through metamorphosis, and reproduce.
These Insect Life Cycle notebooking pages are a handy resource for your kids’ different types of writing assignments across multiple subjects like geology, geography, social science, and language arts when studying nature and bugs.
With these Life Cycle of Bugs notebooking pages, your kids can write about the characteristics of metamorphosis. Or they can write facts about a specific 6-legged insect and how they change and develop through out their life cycle.
These notebooking printables even work well for handwriting practice and for narration and grammar exercises, if they want to copy a poem or quote about an insect.
Recommended Resources for Your Study of Insect Life Cycles
Library List
Select one or two of these books (listed in order of difficulty), or a similar book from your local library:
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My Little Golden Book About Bugs by Bonnie Bader
Fun with Nature (Take Along Guide) by Boring, Burns, and Dendy *Highly recommended for your home library. It will be much used!
Guide to Insects by Herbert Zim (We have the older edition that was my husband’s when he was a child and it has been much loved and read.) The even older 1961 version is free on Open Library.
Insect Anatomy: The Curious World of Bees, Beetles, Butterflies, and Bugs by Julia Rothman
National Geographic Pocket Guide to Insects of North America by Arthur V. Evans
Online Resources
Inspect an Insect video
What is an insect? video
Metamorphosis for kids video
Life Cycles of Insects (scroll down to the Life Cycles section)
Time lapse video of ladybug life cycle
These notebooking pages are generally for students working at the 2nd to 8th grade levels.
Insect Life Cycles Notebooking Printables
The Insect Life Cycles notebooking pages come in 3 different levels to fit all of your students’ needs. There’s a large elementary lined one, a smaller elementary lined one, and a regular lined one.
There are 6 printable pages total.
Download your copy of the Insect Life Cycles Notebooking Pages from the Free Resource Library. Look under Individual Notebooking Pages > Science > Creepy Crawlies
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More Resources for Your Entomology Study of Bugs
If your students are wanting to learn more about entomology, or hexapods (bugs with 6 thoracic legs) specifically, check out these Bugs resources:
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