Watch this excellent lesson in classifying animals.
Learning Objectives
Students will understand that organisms, like animals, are grouped together by the ways in which they are alike and different; this is called classifying.
Students will know the six different classifications of animals and describe the characteristics of each.
Classifying: Before watching the video, have students work together to make groups of familiar objects in the classroom. Students can even sort themselves by height, hair color, eye color, shoe type, etc. Encourage students to find new ways of classifying the same objects. For example, bottle tops can be separated into plastic and not plasti...
Our world in called Earth. People, plants and animals live all over the Earth.
Learning Objectives
Students will understand the characteristics of our world, Earth.
Earth is made up of land and water. The large bodies of land are called continents. There are seven continents: North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica. These continents contain areas of ...
Model of the Earth: Make a paper mâchè model of the Earth. Have students paint their Earth with the appropriate oceans and continents, and label their country, state and city.
Interview Project: Have students take home a piece of paper with an interview question on it. Have them ask a member of their family the qu...