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1st Grade
Subjects(s)
Science
Length of Lesson
Lesson Overview/Rationale
In this lesson, Students will learn about the different things that are included in the
cycle of an animals life. They will learn how food, water, air and environment are a
form of an animals needs of survival. Videos and pictures will be presented to give
visual representation of the learning material. Children will brainstorm together in
groups to create their own animals and what it will need to survive.
Curriculum Framework/
Standard
Learning Objectives
Technology Uses
Materials
Day Two
Day One:
1. Present to the students a PowerPoint introducing the topic of an Animals
Needs, which will provide key words the children will need to know before
entering the lesson and give examples of what both a household pet and
wild animal will need to survive based upon their environment.
2. Have the students watch the video Needs of Animals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe9kSlVeEIM to offer them a visual to
connect with what they have just learned.
3. After offering several examples, offer time for a class discussion and ask the
students if they can provide their own examples of an animal and what they
think its needs may be.
4. Have the class listen to the video The Needs of an Animal Song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1GTcvovh
A&list=PLbsWyo2XU6AyCXZhybtatG70tumQRcki_&index=3 to offer them
repetition of the subjects material and to better engage their creative
minds.
5. Work together as a class to complete the worksheet
http://laimooikeowd20102042511.blogspot.com/ connecting the animal to
the correct habitat.
6. Have the students take home the worksheet
http://www.woaw.org.au/teachers/match-animal-to-needs-activity/ to work
on for homework where they will connect the given animals to their
appropriate needs.
Day Two:
1. Go over the previous days homework and have the students hand turn it in.
2. Break the students into small groups where they will work on a project that
allows them to creatively come up with their own animal and its needs.
3. The students will brainstorm together as a group what they would want
their animal to be like and then design it on construction paper.
4. The groups will then decide what they want their animals needs to be and
list them in the table provided on the worksheet.
https://www.teachervision.com/animal-care/graphic-organizers/32535.html
5. If there is time left, allow the groups to volunteer to show their final product
to the class.
6. Have the students hang their projects in the hallway.
Assessment
Developing
Exemplary
Score
Total Assignment
Score= 18
Creating an
Animal Drawing
Animals Needs
Chart
Group
Interactions
0 points
Drawing and chart
are not present.
1 point
Drawing and chart
are present but not
completed.
2 points
Drawing and chart
are present and
completed entirely.
0 points
Drawing and title
(Animals name)
are not present.
2 points
Drawing is present
and colored but
does not contain a
title (Animals
name).
Drawing and title
are present but is
not colored and
lacks creativity.
4 points
Drawing and title
(Animals name) are
both present and
contain color and
creativity.
0 points
Chart is not
present.
2 points
Chart is present but
does not offer
required
information.
4 points
Chart is present and
requires all needed
information about
the animal and its
needs.
0 points
Assignment was
not completed
together as a
group.
1 point
Assignment was
completed together
as a group but with
numerous
distractions.
2 points
Assignment was
completed together
as a group with
minimal distractions.