The staff development program introduces teachers to the Life Cycle module. Student activities and effective teaching strategies are reviewed. Life Cycles is designed for primary students and explores and compares the life cycles of several plants and animals. In the student programs, students observe and compare caterpillars and mealworms and then observe how they progress through metamorphosis during the student programs. Rapid-cycling Wisconsin Fast Plants™ are grown providing hands-on experience with a plant‘s entire life cycle. Observing and comparing plant and animal life cycles first hand provides students with an excellent opportunity to observe, compare, discuss, describe sequence, and make predictions based on data. Language and communication are emphasized. The content includes: plants & seeds, mealworms & caterpillars, growth & development, life cycles and making comparisons.