Amphibian
A smooth skin animal
Ex. frog, salamander
Reptile
An animal with scales (tiles)
Ex. snake, turtle, alligator
Mammal
An animal with hair or fur
Ex. person, cat, monkey
Invertebrate
An animal without bones
Ex. bug, snail, octopus
Vertebrate
An animal with bones
Ex. - any FARM Boy
Mollusk
A type of invertebrate, usually very slimy and mushy
Ex. Snail, clam, jellyfish
Vascular
A plant with veins or tubes
Ex. leaf, celery, tree, grass
Nonvascular
A plant with no veins or tubes
Ex. moss
Angiosperm
A flower-bearing plant
Ex. Apple tree, rose bush
Gymnosperm
A cone-bearing plant
Ex. Spruce tree, Fir tree, Pine tree
Spruce Tree
A specific type of gymnosperm
Ex. A Christmas tree
Protist
Single celled organisms
Ex. Algae, paramecium
Fungus
One of the 5 types of living things
Ex. Mushrooms, mold
Answers Only
Amphibian
Reptile
Mammal
Invertebrate
Vertebrate
Mollusk
Vascular
Nonvascular
Angiosperm
Gymnosperm
Spruce Tree
Protist
Fungus
Art Center
You will be drawing TWO pictures today in this
center to help you remember the difference between
an angiosperm and gymnosperm plant. You may
look at Becka’s picture to help you with drawing
ideas. Remember to add DETAILS to your pictures.
You need to draw BOTH pictures before you begin to
color.
Angiosperm picture: Draw a girl named Angie. Hopefully you
already know a person named Angie that you can use for
inspiration. You may draw her in a dress with flowers, eating fruit,
picking flowers, walking through a field of flowers, and fruit treed
in the background. All of these things should help you remember
that ANGIosperm plants always have flowers and fruits.
But sometimes a plant holds its seeds inside a CONE instead of a
FRUIT! These plants are called GYMNOSPERM.
Gymnosperm picture: Draw your class in gym class. You may
pick any game that you play in gym class that includes the use of
balls. But in THIS picture, you are going to replace the balls with
pine cones. This will help you remember that GYMnosperm
plants are cone-bearing plants.
When you finish, put this picture in your binder to help you
study before the test.
Flashcards
It is very important that you drill your
vocabulary words. You should get to
a point where you don’t have to even
THINK before answering the word
“vascular” or “amphibian.” The more
you practice saying your words out
loud, the easier it becomes to
remember them for a test.
You may look at the tray for a FEW
minutes and observe the moss and
celery. They are examples of
VASCULAR and NONVASCULAR
plants. Then you need to practice
your flashcards as a team.
Pictionary
It is very important that you drill your
vocabulary words. The more you
practice saying your words out loud,
the easier it becomes to remember
them for a test. It also helps you learn
the definition of a word when you are
forced to DRAW it instead of relying
on the definition alone. Take turns
playing Pictionary. Make sure that
the picture has been drawing (or
mostly drawn) before you shout out
the answers.
Learn 360
You will be watching a movie called “Science:
Animals Without Backbones” on the back computer.
It will take you 15 minutes to watch the video. The
video begins by explaining the 5 types of living
things (the 5 kingdoms) including plants, animals,
and fungi. Then the video will go into more details
about invertebrates, animals without backbones.
When you are finished, come back to your seat and
read a book quietly until it is time to rotate.
Websites
You will be working with several
different websites on the large screen.
Work from left to right on the tool
bar. Many of the websites are
multiple choice quizzes. Read the
questions out loud together and
discuss your answer before making a
choice.
Observe &
Read
You may take a few minutes to observe the items on
the tray. Make sure to also read the explanations that
are provided with them. When you are finished
looking at each item, you may choose an A.R. book
to read.
Make sure you write down the title and author of the
book so that you can take a test on it later. If you do
not finish the book, I will keep them on my shelf for
a few extra days to allow you time to finish.
Celery is a vascular plant. Look at the area on
the end of the stalk that has been cut. You
should be able to see the tubes that run up and
down the stalk carrying nutrients and water to
the rest of the plant.
Trees are also vascular plants. Look at the tubes
on the back of the leaf. Don’t they look like
veins? Tubes run up and down the entire tree
carrying nutrients and water to all areas.
Moss is a nonvascular plant. Moss will never
grow very tall because it does not contain any
tubes to carry water to the top of the plant.
Moss is always found very low and flat. It soaks
up water and nutrients directly from the area it is
attached to.
Lichens are a nonvascular plant. Lichens are
often found on dead twigs and trees. They will
not grow very tall because they do not contain
tubes. Nutrients must be soaked up directly
from the area it is growing on.
The deer is a vertebrate. Its skull is a bone.
Decomposers have eaten away at all of the soft
tissues and organs on an animal and the only
things left after the decomposers are finished are
the bones.
Turtles are also vertebrates. The turtle’s shell is
a bone. The shell looks a little bit like the deer’s
skull. Now look inside the shell. You can see
where the turtle’s backbone was attached to the
top of the shell.
A snake is a vertebrate. Look at the bones inside
the bag. Please be gentle as you handle these.
Also look at the snake’s skin and observe the
“tiles”.
A tarantula is an invertebrate. It does not have
any bones. It must shed its outer skin as it
grows bigger and grow a new “shell” to help
protect it.