All About Animals Created by L.Crespo & A. Halsey

Table of Contents

1. Lesson Plans

2. Key Concepts

3. Lesson

4. Lesson

5. Lesson

6. Filamentality Website

7. References

Lesson 2 What Do Animals Need?

Blooms Taxonomy

Knowledge: Recall data or information. define, describe, list, match, and recall

Linguistic - using words effectively Logical -Mathematical - reasoning,

calculating. Think conceptually

Lesson 2 – What Do Animals Need?

Behavioral Objectives: Students will be able to list and describe types

of animals and their needs. Students will be able to use vocabulary that

help describe parts of animals and their needs.

Lesson 2 – What Do Animals Need?

Scavenger Hunt – In Prospect Park

Students will be asked to walk around Prospect Park and locate an animal, they will need to locate the animals source of feed, water, and shelter.

Lesson 2 – What Do Animals Need?

Procedures

1. Teacher will help students build a temporary home for meal worms. (hands on activity)

2. Students will then (turn and talk, or stop and jot) down items they think the meal worms will need to survive in their temporary home.

3. Students will then observe the meal worms home and draw/write about what they see.

Lesson 3 – How Can We Group Animals

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Remembering- Can the student recall or remember the information

Understanding – Can the student explain ideas or concepts

Applying – Can the student use the information in a new way

Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence

Interpersonal – Understanding, interacting with others

Linguistic – Using words effectively

Visual – Think in terms of physical space

Lesson 3 – How Can We Group Animals

Behavioral Objectives

Students will be able to list different types of animals (recall) and give two supporting details about these animals (comparing)

Students will be able to create lists of animals based on their characteristics (classification, grouping, categorizing and sorting).

Students will be able to complete an Animal Body Covering graphic organizer.

Lesson 3 – How Can We Group Animals?

Procedure

1. Teacher will use text book pages (44-48) www.hspscience.com and display the pages on the smart board.

2. Students will join a choral reading of these pages. The teacher will highlight the types of animals (fish, reptile.) and highlight characteristics of each.

3. Teacher will then pull up a digital copy of the graphic organizer and guide students in fill-in the blanks.

Graphic Organizer

Animal Body

Coverings

Mammal

hair _________

Reptile

Scaly and _______

Lesson 4 – How Do Animals Grow and

Change? Bloom’s Taxonomy

Remembering- Can the student recall or remember the

Understanding – Can the student explain ideas or concepts

Applying – Can the student use the information in a new way

Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence

Interpersonal – Understanding, interacting with others

Linguistic – Using words effectively

Visual – Think in terms of physical space

Lesson 4 – How Do Animals Grow and

Change?Procedures

1. Students will look at picture cards and match each adult animal with its young. (smart board activity)

2. Students will create/fill-in a chart to compare adult animals with their young.

3. Students will write/draw about how each adult animal is like its young and how it is different (compare and contrast).

Lesson 4 – How Do Animals Grow and

Change?Hands on Activity:

http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/science/up_close1.html

Lesson 4 – How Do Animals Grow and

Change?Worksheet: fill in the chart with types of animals and list one

Animal Same Different

Ex. Sea turtle Both have flippers.

One is big one is small.

References

www.hspscience.com

http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listallaboupu.html