Classify Animals As Vertebrates Or Invertebrates and Compare the Characteristics of Mammals

Classify Animals As Vertebrates Or Invertebrates and Compare the Characteristics of Mammals

Science

Outcomes / Activity / Supplies
Journals
  • classify animals as vertebrates or invertebrates and compare the characteristics of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes (300-16, 300-17)
/ Be a paleontologist – 3 dig sites (water trays)
1) Crime Scene – What tale do these tracks tell?
2) Discovery dig – Question, Investigate, Discover
3) Casting - Create your own plaster cast / Fossil kit from museum
Sand
Sand boxes (Leslie and Heather)
Toothbrushes
3 Small hand rakes
Plaster of Paris
Specimens (Leslie)
Shells, leaves
  • create and analyze your own chart or diagram for classifying and describe the role of a common classification system (206-1, 206-9, 300-15)
/ Under the Lens
Examine samples of pond, ocean and lake water through microscopes and viewfinders to record the differences between viewing with the naked eye and microscopes. / P. 179 several copies
Samples of various waters with plant & microscopic life
Microscopes, Viewfinders
Petrie Dishes
Slides
  • classify and compare the adaptations of closely related animals living in their local habitat, and in different parts of the world, and discuss reasons for any differences (301-15, 104-5, 204-6, 206-1)
/ Home Sweet Home
Nature Walk - 5 participants each with his/her own clipboard, take notes/drawings on his/her observations in adesignated plot in regards to plants and animals. Then, come back into the lab and group your own findings. Share your groupings and sorting rules (characteristics) with your peers. Use the posted chart paper to record your answers to the following questions.
Did you classify things the same way as your peers? Is there more than one way to classify your organisms? If every scientist grouped living things the way he/she wanted and called his group by different names, what problems would it cause when they talked to each other about their ideas? / Several copies of Plants/Animals in my habitat p 169-171
Flagging tape
Clipboards
Pencils
Chart paper
Markers
Tool boxes (paleontologist boxes)
  • create and analyze your own chart or diagram for classifying and describe the role of a common classification system (206-1, 206-9, 300-15)
  • classify animals as vertebrates or invertebrates and compare the characteristics of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes (300-16, 300-17)
  • identify and classify common arthropods using a variety of sources (205-8, 300-18
/ Identity Crisis
Using cards, match skeleton, print and body for vertebrates, invertebrates and arthropods. Using the body cards, classify them as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, arthropods, vertebrates, invertebrates. Select one picture to use as a model in a print making activity (Styrofoam). Print your specimen onto tree in the correct category. / Tree
Category cards mammal
Backbone samples
Meat trays
Rollers
Ink
Plastic knives, toothpicks, skewers, etc.
All outcomes / Get smart!
Resource Station / Print:
Sci-Tech Connections 6D, 17027
National Geographic Reading Expeditions Life Science (13497)
Birds DK Eye Wonder (17529)
Bugs, DK Eye Wonder (17528)
Mammals DK Guide (17515)
Reptiles, DK Eye Wonder (17521)
Nature : Animals, Plants and Birds in New Brunswick , Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island (17506)
Videos:
The Kingdom of Animals: From Simple to Complicated (23297)
The Kingdom of Plants (23299)
Plants in Nova Scotia (V2429)
Animals around Us Series (V2505-V2507)
At Home with Zoo Animals (23179)
Bugs Don’t Bug Us (23269)
Champions of the Wild Series (22681)
Eyewitness Series (22447, 22454, 22467-22469)
  • classify animals as vertebrates or invertebrates and compare the characteristics of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes (300-16, 300-17)
  • classify common arthropods using a variety of sources (205-8, 300-18)
/ Who am I?
Game - Students ask questions to determine the identity of the specimen
Make a critter – homemade, Dollar Store items, / Flashcard pictures of plants, animals, etc. (Leslie)
Resources for making critters
Marshmallows, skewers, toothpicks, Play doh, pipe cleaners, miniature marshmallows