PR-6170RUK Science A STEM Approach - Primary 1

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Lesson 3 Living Things LIVING THINGS HAVE NEEDS Teacher Notes Science Inquiry Focus: What do other animals need? Skills Development/Working Scientifically: • Questioning • Investigating and experimenting • Analysing (sorting and classifying) • Recording and communicating Science Learning Outcome: • Pupils think about animals they have observed in their daily lives to investigate how animals meet their needs. Technology/Engineering/Mathematics Links: • Viewing digital texts, including videos and online songs. • Sorting information cards into undefined categories. Background Information • All animals, including humans, have five basic needs: air, food, water, sleep and protection from environmental conditions. Wild animals also require protection from predators and human impacts. • Domesticated animals such as pets, farm animals and zoo animals have some or all of their needs provided for by humans. Wild animals meet their needs by themselves. • How animals meet their needs: Food—Animals use various feeding behaviours such as hunting, grazing or scavenging to find sources of food. Water—Animals seek water from various water sources such as rivers or lakes. Some animals obtain all of their water from their food. Air—Animals breathe air in different ways. Some have lungs and breathe like humans. Others extract air from water bodies. Sleep—Animals sleep at different times of the day and in different ways. Some animals, like sharks, continue to move while they are sleeping. Others hibernate for long periods of time. Protection—Animals build, find or fight for space/shelter. They also need features and behaviours that help them protect themselves against predators. Assessment Focus: • Monitor pupils' contributions to the animal needs matching game to ensure all pupils are contributing to the answers. • Use page 15 as a formative assessment of the pupil’s knowledge about the needs of animals. Resources • A3 poster of human needs created in Lesson 2 • One copy of the animal needs cards on page 14 for each pupil or group. These must be cut out and shuffled prior to the lesson. • Online video—Animal Needs at • One copy of page 15 for each pupil • Online song—The Needs of an Animal at Viewing sample 12 Science: A STEM APPROACH Infants 978-1-912760-14-5 Prim-Ed Publishing – www.prim-ed.com
Living Things LIVING THINGS HAVE NEEDS Lesson 3 Lesson Plan Introduction: 1. Using a think-pair-share, ask pupils to discuss the questions What are the five basic human needs? and How do you meet each need? Pupils share their answers with the class and then re-read the sentences from the A3 poster of human needs created during Lesson 2, such as ‘Humans need air, food, water, sleep and protection’. Development: 2. As a class, ask pupils: What do animals need to survive? Do they have different needs to humans? Write pupils’ suggestions on the whiteboard. 3. Individually or in small groups, give each pupil a copy of the pre-cut and shuffled cards from page 14. Pupils choose a pet shelter card and guess which pet they think it belongs to. Pupils then see if they can match the food and the water source to the pet they think lives in that shelter; for example, if a pupil chooses the birdcage, they may think the animal is a bird. They then choose the birdseed and the water bowl that a bird would use. Pupils repeat the activity until all cards have been used. 4. Pupils share the five animals they think each of these needs belong to. Who is responsible for making sure these pets get their needs? Who is responsible for making sure the animals on a farm or in a zoo have their needs met? How do wild animals meet their needs? 5. Watch the online video Animal Needs at to see how different animals meet their needs. 6. Provide each pupil with a copy of page 15 to write and draw about a familiar wild animal of their choice. Pupils need to draw their wild animal sleeping and its shelter, food and water. Explain that air is all around us and is hard to draw. For this reason, create a symbol such as blue wavy lines to represent wind. Note: A selection of non-fiction books about wild animals may be provided to ensure the information is correct. Differentiation • Less able pupils should be encouraged to view books or online images of their wild animal and may have the sentence scribed for them. • More able pupils should be encouraged to choose a less familiar wild animal and research information about how it meets its needs. Reflection: 7. Select some pupils to share their completed copy of page 15, explaining the needs of their animal. 8. As a class, listen to the song The Needs of an Animal at to reinforce four of the five basic needs of animals—food, water, air and shelter (protection). Viewing sample www.prim-ed.com – Prim-Ed Publishing 978-1-912760-14-5 Infants Science: A STEM APPROACH 13
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