Animal Life
By Marta Chwalka & Juliette John
What will we be learning about animals?
At the end of the week we will know…
 How to classify animals
 Animals have different structures that
help animals to adapt and survive
 Animal Relationships in the Food
Chain.
 Different Life Cycles
 How the environment is dependent of
animals and their behaviors.
Graphic Organizer for MST Unit
Lesson # 1 ANIMAL CLASSIFICATION:
Do all animals have skeletons?
 Feel your skeleton activity.
To explore animals that have a skeleton and the ones that do NOT click below
http://www.kidport.com/RefLIB/Science/Animals/Animals.html
 Scientists classify animals according to similar characteristic
 The animal kingdom can be split into two main groups. They are:
 WHAT DO THINK ? …WHICH GROUP OF ANIMALS DOES NOT HAVE A SKELETON?
 Let’s find out ! Click
herehttp://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=36112&title=Animals
Lesson # 2 FOOD CHAIN:
Who is who in the food chain ?
 Mystery Pellet: What is in IT? Help Henry the owl with his
mysterious lunch.
 Students dissect owl pellets and identify bones
and post their findings at
http://scientistsatwork.wikispaces.com/
 Using Inspiration design your own food chain.
Lesson # 3 ADAPTATION AND SURVIVAL
 ADAPTATION EXPERIMENT: Students use various
tools to gather food. Present findings in
mathematical representation.
20
18
TYPE OF BEAKS ( TOOLS)
16
14
12
10
Short Beaks
8
Long beaks
6
4
2
0
Rice
Noodles
Bird Seeds
TYPE OF FOOD
Peanuts

Students set up real life habitats.
Lesson # 4 LIFE CYCLES:
Where did I come from?
Group 1: Brine shrimp ( sea monkeys)

Group 2: Mealworm
Group 3: Frogs
Scavenger Hunt
Sea Monkeys:
http://www.sea-monkey.com/html/fun/index.html
http://www.sea-monkey.com/html/customercare/faq_reproduction.html
Mealworm
http://www.district196.org/sv/classconn/classrooms/second/menas/insects/insect.html
http://lawrencehallofscience.org/foss/fossweb/teachers/materials/plantanimal/tenebriobeetles.html
Frogs
http://www.tooter4kids.com/Frogs/life_cycle_of_frogs.html
http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Themes/frogs/
Chicks
http://chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/explore/embryology/
www.nebo.edu/misc/learning_resources/ppt/k-5/chicks.pp
Group 4: Chicks
Lesson # 5 BODY COVERINGS: How hot are
you?
KWL CHART
What do I know about
Cold-blooded and
Warm-blooded
animals?
Different animals have
different body
coverings
What would I like to
know know about
Cold-blooded and
Warm-blooded
animals?
What have I learned
about Cold-blooded
and Warm-blooded
animals?
How to tell a difference Mammals and birds
between these two
are Warm-blooded
types?
creatures because they
are able to keep their
Some animals have fur, How do cold-blooded bodies at constant
furthers or fins
animals survive
temperature.
winter?
Some animals can
Warm- blooded
control body
animals convert food
temperature
to energy. And that
produces heat.
Let’s experiment !
1.Do the following exercise using a 5 x 8 inch envelope made from
cheesecloth and filled with feathers, a bucket of ice and your
hands:
2. Hold the envelope with the feathers on your hand, and at the
same time insert both into the bucket of ice. Note: be sure the
feathers are between your hand and the ice!
3. Insert your hand in the ice bucket without the ice. Did the
feathers keep your hand from getting cold? Discuss how the
feathers of birds are used an insulation against the cold. Do the
same exercise using fur.
4. How do you think these types of coverings affect the body
temperature of warm-blooded animals? Do warm-blooded
animals need extra protection for cold weather?
5. Discuss: Animals grow extra thick fur in the winter and shed
their fur in the summer. Birds molt or lose their feathers in the
summer and fluff their feathers in the winter to keep their body
temperature even. Humans wear layers of clothing in the winter
to keep their body temperature.
Lesson # 6 POLLINATION:
Did you hear the BUZZ?

PET Manipulative: Students discover the process of pollination.

What does the word "pollination" mean? Pollination is the transfer of
pollen from a stamen to a pistil. Pollination starts the production of
seeds.

But how does pollination work? Well, it all begins in the flower. Flowers
have male parts called stamens that produce a sticky powder called
pollen. Flowers also have a female part called the pistil. The top of the
pistil is called the stigma, and is often sticky. Seeds are made at the
base of the pistil, in the ovule.

But how do plants get pollinated?
Ah! That is an excellent question. Well, people and insects such a bees and
butterflies help. And don’t forget about strong winds

Sing a pollination Song
http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/pollination.html
FILAMENTALITY
We designed our Filamentality website in
order to give students the opportunity to
browse additional resources related to
our unit of study, The ANIMAL LIFE. We
included videos, songs, games, and
informational pages, just to name a few!
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages
/listanimallma.html