Lesson plan and activity for the students as a follow up on Classification of Animals presentation.

1. Unit title: Animal life Time: 45 & 45 mins
Overview: Animals are of different types and can be classified into groups according to
their similar characteristics. By showing a power point presentation they e students learn
about these classes of animals and their features. They will also learn how to organize
information in a visual graphic.
Sub topic: Classification of animals
Pre-requisite knowledge/skills: Based on the characteristics of living things the living
organisms are classified into plant and animal kingdom.
Learning outcomes: The students will be able to
• classify animal as vertebrates and invertebrates
• list the characteristics of different classes of vertebrates and invertebrates
• organize information in a graphic organizer
Materials / resources required:
• Ppt on classification
• Computer/OHP
• Student fact cum worksheet
• Chart paper
Essential Unit Questions:
• Are all the animals same?
• How are they classified?
Time Class setting/ Resources Learning Sequence
5 mins Whole class /individual
work /test sheet
introduction
Start the session by having a brief recall of
characteristics of living thing. Ask:
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2. • What are the characteristic of living thing?
• MRSGREN
• How are living things classified?
• What are the two main classes or groups of living
things?
• Plants and animals
• Are all animals the same?
• Name a few animals.
• Write the names on the BB.
• Then ask: Can these animals be grouped in any
way? Or are there animals which show
similarities?
• What are the similarities?
• Can we give each group some kind of name?
Tell the students that they are going to learn about
the different animals living all over the world and
see their differences and similarities.
10 min
Whole
class/ppt/computer/Fact
sheet/note book
Phase 1: Instructional Process
Distribute the fact sheet to the students and ask them
to just read/browse through it.
Ask one or two students the summary of the fact
sheet.
Tell them that whatever they have not understood
will be clarified after the presentation.
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3. 10
mins
Whole
class/ppt/computer/Fact
sheet/note book
Phase 2:
Show the ppt to the class.
Slide 3: Ask what is a back bone?
Slide 5: Discuss what is cold blooded? Why snakes
are called cold blooded?
After the presentation till slide 9 ask the students
what are the 5 min groups of vertebrates?
Let them come up with their answers.
Than show slide 10 and discuss the five groups
Slide 11: Tell the students that the next slide 11 and
12 they have to identify to which class of vertebrates
the animals belong. They have to write their answers
in their notebooks.
15
mins
Whole
class/ppt/computer/Fact
sheet/note book
Phase 3:
Show slide13 and ask them if they can identify some
animals in their daily /immediate surrounding that are
invertebrates.
10
mins
Whole class/work sheet Phase 4:
Tell the students to read fact sheet and discuss if they
have any queries
Tell them “let’s see how these animals can be
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4. classified.’
After slide 20 ask them to recall what are
invertebrates and the three main groups of
invertebrates.
Tell them that they have to classify the animals
shown in the next slide as vertebrates and
invertebrates and write their answers in the copy.
5 mins Whole class Closure: (DR Room)
Ask the students:
• What are animals?
• How are animals classified?
• What are the two main groups of animals?
• What is the difference between them?
(45/35
mins)
20 mns
Whole class in the class
room setting/ fact
sheet /chart paper
Phase 5:
Tell the students that they have to work in groups.
They all have to read the fact sheet and make a flow
chart showing the classification of the animal
kingdom.
Feedback
Teacher Feedback to the lesson plan
During the transaction
Was the LO achieved?
Timing:
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5. Transaction:
Any other difficulty:
Suggestions:
Class work sheet: 1
Classification of Animals-Fact Sheet
Title – ANIMAL KINGDOM
 We put livings things into two large
groups:
 Animals
 Plants
 Animals are split into two major groups:
 Vertebrates
 Invertebrates
 Vertebrates
 These are animals with a backbone.
 There are five groups of vertebrates:
o Fish
o Amphibians
o Reptiles
o Birds
o Mammals
 Fish
• Are cold-blooded.
• Live in water
• Lay eggs (but some do give birth to
live young).
• Have a moist skin covered in scales.
• Breathe through gills.
 Amphibians
• Are cold-blooded.
• Lay eggs.
• Have a smooth, moist skin.
• Are able to live on land as well as in
the water.
 Reptiles
• Are cold-blooded.
• Lay eggs.
• Have a dry skin covered with scales
 Birds
• Have feathers and hollow bones
• Lay hard shelled eggs
• Warm blooded
 Mammals
• Have hair and produce milk
• Give birth to live offspring (no eggs)
• Warm blooded
 Invertebrates
 These are animals without a backbone
 They breathe through their skin and
reproduce by laying eggs.
 There are three broad groups of
invertebrates
o Worms
o Molluscs
o Arthropods
 Worms
• Have round or flat bodies
• Generally have bodies divided into
segments
• Breathe through their skin
 Molluscs
• Crawl on a single fleshy pad.
• Breathe through their skin
• Can have a shell
 Arthropods
• Have lots of legs and segmented
bodies.
• There are four group of arthropods:
o Spiders
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6. o Centipedes & Millipedes
o Crustaceans
o Insects
• Spiders
• Have four pairs of legs.
• Have bodies divided into two sections
• Centipedes & Millipedes
• Have long thin bodies and pairs of
legs on each of their many body
sections
• Crustacean
• Have five-seven pairs of legs
• Bodies covered in shell
Insects
• Have three pairs of legs
• Bodies divided into three sections
• Often have wings
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7. Exercise 1:
Complete the flow chart showing the classification of animal kingdom. Write the characteristic of each group with
examples.
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Animal Kingdom
Invertebrates

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