Resource: Thunderbolt Kids Grade 5
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Week 1: Plants and animals on Earth
NST LESSON 1Listen to the introduction of the lesson.
Week 1
Plants and animals on Earth
Many different plants and animals
The Earth is home to the most amazing diversity (different) of animals and plants. Each animal and plant naturally chooses where it wants to live: its habitat.
We can identify different types of habitats on earth, such as:
Aquatic (Water)
Desert
Grassland
Forest
NST Term 1.pdf• Inter-dependence
• Animal types
You need: Pictures of plants and animals
What must I be able to do?
· Identify different habitats in South Africa and some of the plants and animals that we find there.
· Describe and compare animals without bones with animals with bones.
· Describe interdependence between living and non-living things.
· Identify the interdependence between the animals and/or plants and the non-living things in their environment.
Identifying common characteristics of invertebrates and vertebrates animals
Vocabulary
Biodiversity: It refers to all the variety of life that can be found on Earth (plants, animals, fungi and micro-organisms) as well as to the communities that they form and the habitats in which they live.
Week 2
Plants and animals on Earth
Week 3
Animal skeletons
· Skeletons of vertebrates
Movement
Pictures and examples of animal skeletons / bones
· Identify the different types of skeletons.
· Use pictures of animals to identifying five groups of vertebrates and their common characteristics.
· Identify and describe different bones in a vertebrate skeleton and state the functions of each bone.
· Label the diagram of the human skeleton.
· Describe how different vertebrate animals move including humans.
Design, draw, make and evaluate a skeleton. Write a paragraph about the skeleton that you built to address what worked and what did not work. Your skeleton should have the following specifications: - It must be 3-dimensional; It must look realistic; It must have/show the basic parts, i.e. skull, backbone, ribs; It must be strong and rigid and so it can stand on its own.
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