Unit 2: Animals

Unit Summary:  

Why is it important to classify animals? 

Lessons 1-5 Guiding Question: Which groups of animals can be classified by their backbones? Writing Prompt: How are the ideas in “Vertebrates and Invertebrates” similar to or different from the ideas in “Vertebrate Animals”? 

Lessons 6-10 Guiding Question: How do animals change as they grow? Writing Prompt: Think of the transition words you heard when you learned about amphibian metamorphosis. Write a short paragraph using those words to describe the metamorphosis of a butterfly. 

Lessons 11-15 Guiding Question: What can we learn from observing animals? Writing Prompt: How were the chimps that Jane Goodall studied similar to human beings? Why was this discovery important?

Spelling:  

**All spelling tests will be averaged together for one grade a nine weeks.** 

Spelling Skill:   Unit 2 Lesson 10

dine dined dining

smile smiled smiling

prepare prepared preparing

translate translated translating

rake raked raking

tire tired tiring

file filed filing

vote voted voting

raise raised raising

quote quoted quoting