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 17 – ANIMAL BABIES

Background: Most animals progress through a life cycle that includes birth, reproduction and death. Some traits characterize an animal throughout its life cycle, while other traits change as the animal grows and matures.

Objective: Describe the physical changes of several animals from the newly
hatched or born to the mature adult.

Vocabulary: traits

Quick Peek: The children listen to a story that compares various animal traits and they match baby animals to their parents.

Materials:
Book -- "You Don't Look Like Your Mother, Said the Robin to the Fawn" by Aileen Fisher
babies and adults worksheets
crayons
glue

Method:

1. Read the story. Discuss. Hand out pictures of baby animals and adults. Have students colour them.
2. Ask the children to match the adults to their young and glue them in pairs.
3. Discuss and compare while observing the pairs created:
Example: How do animals stay the same as they grow?
They have the same number of legs.
How do they change?
They become bigger, stronger, and heavier.

*Excellent pictures of young and mature animals: Big Ones Little Ones by Tana Hoban

Filmstrip:
Learning About Animals - Animals And Their Babies
(rbm) 591.5 Lea (Caswell Library)

Great Story:
Baby Animals by Margaret Wise Brown