OVERARCHING QUESTION - How can we create healthy habits for ourselves and our pets?

Human and Animal Needs

By: Safiyya
and Elizabeth

Cours
e

Grade One
Science

PROGRAM OF STUDY OUTCOMES

SCIENCE:
GLO: 1-11 Describe some common living things and identify needs of those living
things
SLO 1-11 #6: Identify the requirements of animals to maintain life; ie. air, food, water,
shelter, space; and recognize that we must provide these for animals in our care
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
GLO: B Benefits Health
SLO B1-1: Identify healthy nutritional habits

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1.
2.

At the end of the lesson students will be able to:

Identify requirements of life for animals
Identify requirements of life for human, specifically nutritional needs

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

SMARTboard or whiteboard and markers
25 Animals and Humans Need worksheets
Animal Yoga Powerpoint

PREPARATION AND LOGISTICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Give out worksheets when its time for review
Students will take some time to transition between each activity, and to
refocus after the movement breaks.
Set clear expectations around these transition times to help make things go
smoother

PROCEDURE
Introduction
Have students sit down in the reading corner
Introduce the topic: Today we are going to talk about humans and
animals, and what they need to live
Body
Human
Needs

1) Write answers on the SMARTboard and

start a discussion with the students

Time
2 min

Time
10 min

OVERARCHING QUESTION - How can we create healthy habits for ourselves and our pets?

Brain Break

1) Animal themed yoga

Remind students to find their own space and be
respectful of each other
Encourage them to focus on how they are doing
and not watch others
Remind them to take nice, big breathes
Put on powerpoint

5 min

1) Write answers on the board and discuss:

Now, how many of you have pets?
What are some things your pets need to live?
Do your pets need the same things as you?
Do wild animals need the same things as your
pet?
Do different animals need different things?

10 min

1) Explain that you are going to call out words

and if students think the animal needs
what you say then move to one side of the
room and if they think they do not need
what you say, move to the other side of the
room
Questions to ask: air, burgers, candy, vegetables,
meat, seeds, clothing, friends, family, a bed, a
house, fruit, water
2) Do the same activity for humans
Questions to ask: air, burgers, candy, vegetables,
meat, seeds, clothing, friends, family, a bed, a
house, fruit, water,
3) Have students sit back down in the reading

5 min

Animal
Needs

Animal and
Human
Needs
Review

surrounding human basic needs. Write

student answers on the SMARTboard with a
picture (ie. I live in a house! Write shelter
and draw a house)
Prompt questions:
What are some things that you students need in
order to survive?
What things do you need to have every day?
What do you need when you are tired? Grumpy?
Cold? Hungry? After running around?
Example answers: food, water, shelter, air,
clothing
Why do we need these things to survive? Why do
we need shelter/clothes?

OVERARCHING QUESTION - How can we create healthy habits for ourselves and our pets?

corner and discuss similarities and

differences between the needs of animals
and humans. Together as a class, create a
graphic organizer (Venn diagram or mind
map)
Conclusion
Have students complete Animal and Human Needs Worksheet
Remind students to hand worksheets in the hand-in bin before
they leave for recess

Assessment
Formative Assessment:
Animal and Human Needs worksheet
Observation during discussion and review activity

Additional Notes:

Time
10 min