LS.K.1.2
Use models to exemplify how animals use their body parts to obtain food and other resources, protect themselves, and move from place to place.
Embedded Files
District Recommended Resources for Kindergarten Grade Science
Science Phenomena Resources
Next Generation Science Standards YouTube Channel
Step 1: Lesson Standards & Learning Goals
Emphasis is on how all animals need to obtain food and resources, protect themselves, and move, but animals have different body parts to complete those functions.
Dimension 1:
Science and Engineering Practice: Develop and Use Models: With guidance and support, compare models to identify common features and differences in how animals use their body parts for obtaining food, protection and movement (NSTA SEP Matrix).
Dimension 2:
Crosscutting Concepts: Structure and Function
Dimension 3:
Disciplinary Core Ideas:
LS1.A All organisms have external parts. Different animals use their body parts in different ways to see, hear, grasp objects, protect themselves, move from place to place, and seek, find, and take in food, water and air (A Framework for K-12 Science Education).
Sample Essential Questions
Sample Essential Questions
How do animals use their body parts to obtain food and protect themselves?
Why do animals move from place to place? How do they use their bodies to move from place to place?
How can we use models to exemplify how animals use their body parts to obtain food, protect themselves, and move from place to place?
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
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protect
movement
resources
hibernate
adapt
survive
migrate
protect
camouflage
predator
prey
Students will be able to...
Students will be able to...
Develop and Use Models - With guidance and support, compare models (e.g., diagram, drawing, physical replica, diorama, dramatization, or storyboard) to identify similar and different animal body parts that are used to get food and/or resources, protect themselves, and move from place to place.
Students will know...
Students will know...
Animals are made up of different parts.
Different parts of the animal’s body are used for different purposes:
Obtaining food and other resources (e.g., beak on a bird; hands and teeth of a human; teeth and feet of a beaver to get wood for food or building dam)
Protection (e.g., claws on cats; coloring, fangs or venom on snakes; shells on turtles; quills on porcupines)
Movement (e.g,. wings on a hawk; legs on a giraffe; fins on a fish)
Step 2: Assessment
Formative Assessments
Formative Assessments
Writing Prompts
What are examples of parts of an animal? (e.g., legs, wings, eyes, beak, teeth, hands, shell)
What body parts of animals allow them to get food or resources? What body parts protect them? What body parts allow them to move from place to place? (e.g., Get food: bird-beak, dog-teeth; Protect: cat-claws, turtle-shell; Move: fish-fins, human-legs)
Do all animals use the same body parts to get food and resources? Why or why not? (No, not all animals use a beak to eat)
When looking at and/or creating models, what common body parts do animals have to get food and/or resources? (e.g., both humans and squirrels use hands and teeth to eat food and hands to gather resources)
When looking at and/or creating models, what different body parts do animals have to get food and/or resources? (e.g., dogs use their teeth to get food and resources, but birds use their beak)
Mini Projects and Investigations
Arctic Animals blubber experiment see video for instructions: Fun With Blubber! - #sciencegoals
Webbed foot model: Have students make a webbed foot to see how turtles' webbed feet help them swim. See video for instructions: Webbed Feet DIY Hands-On Science Activity 🦆 Fun Science with Ms. Shelley | Kindergarten Grade NGSS
Mini Lesson: Animal Adaptations
Mini Lesson: Animal Adaptations
Objective: Students will explore how different animals use their body parts to obtain food, move, and protect themselves.
Materials Needed:
Animal picture cards
Playdough or craft supplies for modeling
Chart paper
Steps to Follow:
Animal Introduction: Show images of different animals and discuss how their body parts help them survive.
Hands-on Modeling: Have students create simple models (e.g., bird beaks, turtle shells) using playdough.
Discussion: Compare how different animals solve the same problem (e.g., getting food) in different ways.
Writing Extension: "A ____ uses its ____ to ____."
NCDPI Formative Assessment Samples
Culminating Activity
Provide a set of animal cards with different body parts labeled. Students will match the animal cards with their corresponding body parts. Encourage students to explain the functions of each body part as they make the matches. Observe students during the activities to assess their understanding of animal body parts. Use a checklist to note their ability to identify, label, and explain the functions of different parts.
Pictures below are from the NCDPI Formative Assessment Samples.
Step 3: Lesson Instructions
Possible Activating Strategies
Possible Activating Strategies
Discourse: (Pt. 1)
Ask students to identify or point to their body parts as you call them out: head, legs, arms, chest, mouth, eyes, nose, etc. After doing that quick activity, ask students: Do animals have body parts? Allow students to give some examples of animal body parts. Then ask students: “Do animals have the same body parts as people? Why do you think animals have these body parts? How do their body parts help them?" Record responses on chart paper.
Discourse: (Pt. 2)
Read: Amazing Animal Parts by: Kerrie Shanahan
Revisit the questions from Discourse Pt. 1. Ask students what they would like to add to or take from their original responses.
Read aloud:
What If You Had Animal Teeth?
Activating Strategy: Mystery Animal Parts Game
Show a zoomed-in image of an animal part and have students guess what it is and how it helps the animal survive. Or use these flashcards.
Additional Literacy Connections
Science A to Z
Living and Non-Living Things
Animals, Animals
Read Aloud Series by Sandra Markle
What If You Had Animal Feet?
What If You Had Animal Ears?
What If You Had Animal Eyes?
What If You Had Animal Scales?
What If You Had Animal Hair?
What If You Had an Animal Nose?
What If You Had an Animal Tail?
epic!
Amazing Adaptations Series by Yanitzia Canetti
Other titles include: Feathers, Fins and Flippers, Wings, Eyes, Necks, Crests, Manes, Whiskers, Antennae, Ears, Fangs
Migration by: Robin Nelson
Hibernation by: Robin Nelson
Over and Under by: Kate Messner
Animals in Winter by: Jenna Lee Gleisner (Epic)
Videos:
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