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Animal Families challenges the students to choose their favorite
animals, search for their common names and decide to which animal family they
belong.
First, you must download
the worksheets and make copies :
http://playbrazil.com/Lessons/lesson4_AnimalFamilies.html
http://playbrazil.com/Lessons/wordsearch_advanced.html
http://playbrazil.com/Lessons/coloring_GreenGirl.html
http://playbrazil.com/Lessons/coloring_TreeKiller.html
Let them do the wordsearch while they wait for files to download.
Introduce lesson :
Write these urls and
passwords on the board.
https://secure.playbrazil.com/rtr
ID :
Password :
Ask students to refresh their browser each time they enter to see whatÕs new. (Click the circular arrows at top of internet browser.)
Show students how to bookmark or put in favorites.
Lesson 4
Animal Families
When the explorers visited the rainforest in 1817, there were no cameras to take pictures of the beautiful scenery. Cameras hadnÕt even been invented yet ! In those days it was important to practice drawing and painting, so you could remember and pass along what you had seen. Being true scientists, the explorers collected plants and animals and made detailed drawings of them.
They collected plants and
animals from all the different habitats : the ancient forest, the riverbanks,
the seashore, the grasslands, the mountains, the dry lands that are practically
desert and the land where the
rainforest had been chopped down and burned.
Today, you may choose your favorite
animals from <AnimalsA-Z>. You will list them on your worksheet and try
to guess to which animal family they belong. Then search with your animalsÕ
scientific names to find their common names at www.animalbase.com or www.google.com . Then check your guesses in
the <Animal Families> to see if you are correct. Tally up your correct
guesses to figure your score. Then you may print pictures of some of your
animals and color them with colored pencils.
Animal Family Attributes :
Make a chart with students
Birds : warm-blooded,
feathers, 2 legs, 2 wings, beaks, young hatch from eggs, breathe air through
their lungs.
Mammals : fur or hair, babies
get milk from their mothers, backboned, 4 limbs (arms, legs or flippers), warm-blooded,
born alive not hatched from an egg, and they breathe air through their lungs.
Amphibians : cold-blooded,
backboned, moist skin, jelly-covered eggs are laid in the water and babies
breathe with gills, adults breathe with lungs or through their skin, and live
in or near water.
Fish : cold-blooded, lay eggs, covered with
scales, fins not legs, live in water, breathe through gills.
Mollusks : soft-bodied, most
have shells, no backbone, one muscular foot for locomotion, breathe with gills.
Example : snails
Insects : 6 legs, 3 part body
(head, thorax, abdomen), 2 antennae, skeletons on outside, one or two pair of
wings, cold-blooded, no lungs (breathe through small openings in the body), lay
many eggs, go through changes (baby does not look like adult).
Crustaceans : 3 body parts
(head, thorax, abdomen), antennae, segmented limbs, breathe through gills or
body surface, outside skeleton or shell, lay eggs. Example : lobsters, crabs, barnacles
Reptiles : dry and scaley
skin, short legs or no legs at all, breathe with lungs, cold-blooded, backboned
(vertebrates), most hatch from eggs, young look like their parents.
Zoophytes : resemble plants,
no backbone (invertebrate), live in water.
We will have a 20 minute
online tutorial ready for Earth Day which explains the site navigation and
Lesson 4. All you have to do is project it from your computer, using your lcd.
http://playbrazil.com/screencast4.pps
Sincerely,
Carol Miranda Chor
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design playbrazil.com
carol@remembertherainforest.com