Adeline Flores
May 4, 2010
Joni Flowers
Edu 214
Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan Title: Classification of Animals
Topic: Animal and their different classifications
General Goals: Students will explore and obtain an understanding in animal and their
classifications they will learn certain characteristics used to define animals in their
appropriate terminology.
Specific: Discovering animal's different classifications.
Required Materials: a computer, board, and internet explorer
Procedures:
*1 will begin with a look back into what we were previously learning “animal kingdom” now
we will be moving into animal classifications.
“1 will show a PowerPoint | have made to the class about animal and their different
classifications it is thorough and to the point something they will enjoy
*Lwill then have a link in my PowerPoint to play a fun game on animal classification | will
separate them into two groups which will help them get some practice.
*after this I will tell them about my project they have to pick an animal and they have to
classify and have characteristics for them they will be graded on the presentation so they
must research!
Closure: questions about what they have learned
Assessment: project
Possible connections to other subjects: communicationsAnimals With Backbones
‘+ Animals with backbones ate called vertebrates.
AMPHIBIANS:
Amphibian Characteristics
+ Their body temperature varies with their
surroundings
+ Amphibians hatch ftom eggs and they ean
tive on land as an adult.
+ Young amphibians breathe through gills
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+ They come in ma
+ Many fish are
protects them.
+ They have fins that help
balance in the water.
+ Their body temperatures vary in
+ They breathe through gills.1 ponds, sans, and
‘other water envconments.
+ Insects and some other invertebrates
have exeskoltons %
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‘Humans are mammals but they (animals) have
more hair than we do,
+ The hair keeps the animals warm,
+ They feed milk to their young.
‘An Exoskeleton isa hard outer covering that
protects an animal’s body and gives it suppor.
‘There are six groups of invertebrates, They
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Worm Characteristics
| STARFISH AND SEA URCHINS:
+ Ithelongs fo group of invertebrates
Characteristics
that ave tiny tube feet and body pars
arranged around a central area.
[A starfish has five arms and no head!
‘The hard, spiny covering of the starfish
ives the animal protection
Arthropod Characteristics
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DAP» The largest group of arthropods are
insocts
Arthropods: Insects, Spiders, and
Centipedes/Millipedes
+ They ar the cay invertebrates that can ly.
+ Ines ods ddd mothe pa and
six legs
+ Spiders have jointed les (cit eg), jaws and
‘nes.
+ Centipedes and millpees are also arthropeds
+ Centipede uses its many lps to run from
+ Milipdes rollup their bois when they sense
danger approaching.