Day 7: Animal Life Cycles
Objectives
Students will:
Students will:
- explain the pattern of growth and change that animals undergo during their life.
Materials
- book - Animal Life Cycles Growing and Changing, by Bobbie Kalman
- PowerPoint presentation
- animal picture cards
- students' science notebooks
Instruction Sequence
- Read aloud book - Animal Life Cycles Growing and Changing, by Bobbie Kalman
- Lead discussion about animal life cycles by asking questions such as: Do all animals go through a life cycle? Do all animals go through the same kind of life cycle? What are two animals that go through different types of life cycles?
- PowerPoint presentation
- Animal picture cards activity
- Each student will receive an animal picture card
- When instructed to, the students will walk around the classroom and find the person with a card that goes with their card (example: one card will have a cub on it and its match will be a picture of a full grown bear)
- All students will discuss their pictures with each other until everyone has found their match
- Each pair will tell the class why their pictures go together
- Creative writing assignment - Instruct students to choose an animal and write a short creative story about its life cylce
Assessments
Formative: Students will answer questions such as: Do all animals go through a life cycle? Do all animals go through the same kind of life cycle? What are two animals that go through different types of life cycles?
Summative: Students will choose an animal and write a short creative story about its life cycle.
Formative: Students will answer questions such as: Do all animals go through a life cycle? Do all animals go through the same kind of life cycle? What are two animals that go through different types of life cycles?
Summative: Students will choose an animal and write a short creative story about its life cycle.
Resources
PowerPoint presentation
PowerPoint presentation
References
DLTK's Sites. (2013). Animal life cycles. Retrieved from http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/lifecycle.htm
DLTK's Sites. (2013). Animal life cycles. Retrieved from http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/lifecycle.htm