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Learning intention: I will group animals based upon their external features.
Learning intention: I will group animals based upon their external features.
Success criteria:
Try my best to draw different animal, even if it is difficult at first
Observing animals in their environment
Group animals as mammal, reptile, bird, fish and amphibian, based upon their external features.
Lesson content
Lesson content
Classification of living things
Inquiry question: How can we group living things?
Students:
collect data and identify patterns to group living things according to their external features, and distinguish them from non-living things
identify that science involves making predictions and describing patterns and relationships
Lesson description
Lesson description
Students begin in the classroom, watching a video outlining the difference between animal classification groups. Students draw and classify their own chosen animal, before investigating the animals within their school grounds.
Estimated time
Estimated time
50 minutes
Supporting materials required
Supporting materials required
Interactive whiteboard
Student's pencil cases
Blank A4 paper
Scissors
Analyzing Animals worksheet (class set)
Activity 1 (whole class)
Activity 1 (whole class)
Activity 2 (individual)
Activity 2 (individual)
Features of animals
Features of animals
Students fold a single page equally into four squares.
Students choose 4 animals and draw them in each of the 4 sections..
Label all the features of the animals including; skin covering, number of legs, how they breathe etc
Once drawn and labeled, have each student cut out their animals.
On a blank wall, window, separate desks ect, label 5 different areas as mammal, fish, bird, reptile, amphibian and invertebrate.
As a class, students blu-tac their animals into the correct grouping location, based upon their external features.
Mammal
Mammal
Fish
Fish
Bird
Bird
Reptile
Reptile
Amphibian
Amphibian
Invertebrate
Invertebrate
Activity 3 (individual)
Activity 3 (individual)
Environment Fieldwork Investigation
Environment Fieldwork Investigation
Students investigate their local school area
Prepare a class set of the 'Analyzing Animals' worksheet.
As a class, search throughout the school grounds for animals.If possible, record photographs and video of each animal while students sketch the animal being observed.
Continue until at least 5 different animals have been recorded.
Once back in the classroom, review any images or videos recorded and group the animals based on their different external features.
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