GR. 1 SCIENCE UNIT

Lessons

1: Animals
2: Animal Charades
3: Animals Shapes
4: Animal Coats
5: Lunch Time
6: Animal Friends
7: Animal Sort
8: Off to Petland
9: Basic Needs for Pets
10: The Pet Vet
11: Staying Alive
12: Animal Habitats
13: Animal Adaptations
14: Animal Homes
15: Staying Alive
16: Animal Life Cycles
17: Animal Babies
18: Birds and Reptiles

LESSON 11: STAYING ALIVE

Background: All animals have the same basic needs, but those needs may be met differently.

Objective: Describe the basic needs of animals.
The students will compare the needs of other animals with pets.

Quick Peek: The children are given an opportunity to explore animal books and do their own “research” on whether or not all animals have the same basic needs.

Materials:
pet, wild and domestic animal pictures - fun tak
3 station tables
3 worksheets per student
pencils
Animal Facts book set: Farm Animals, Pets,
Animals in the Wild (Caroline Robins Library 0000685288)

Method:

1. Recall the previous two lessons. (re: the basic needs of pets)
2. Place pictures of pets up on the chalkboard while the children reflect upon the previous lesson.
3. Ask: “Do all of these pets have the same basic needs?” (Yes)
4. Now place pictures of wild or domestic animals (such as a bear and a pig) on the chalkboard.
5. Ask: Do these animals also require those same 5 basic needs?” (Yes) “How do they get them?” (a bear hunts for food, rather than being given it)
6. Discuss some of the similarities and differences of how all these animals require the same basic needs.
7. Now ask the children to visit each station over the next ½ hour, and tell them that you will clap when it is time for their group to move to the next station. Tell the children that at each station there will be six books. Station No. 1 will have books about animals that are pets. Station No. 2 will have books about animals in the wild and Station No. 3 will have books about farm animals.
8. Explain how once they have looked at all six books and examined all six animals at a station, they should complete their worksheet by answering the “Yes” or “No” questions. (All answers should be “Yes”)
9. Discuss the children’s findings and conclude the lesson by reiterating that all animals, no matter whether they are pets, farm animals, wild animals, etc. have the same basic needs, but those needs may be met in different ways.