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Lesson 4<br />
Biological sciences<br />
GROWING AND CHANGING<br />
Lesson plan<br />
Introduction:<br />
1. View the Instagram post from the Cincinnati Zoo at showing their hippopotamus family. Which ones are the parents? Which one is<br />
the offspring? How are they similar or different? Are they more similar than they are different? What<br />
other animals can you think of that are similar to their parents? QP<br />
Development:<br />
2. As a class, explore other images from the zoo page at . Based on what they have observed, students choose which animals from the web<br />
page have offspring that look similar to them and write up a class list; e.g. rhinoceros, elephant,<br />
giraffe, tiger, chimpanzee, meerkat, otter, painted dog, squirrel. Note: Adult animals like the takin<br />
and flamingo are not similar to their offspring so should not be listed. PC PA<br />
3. Refer to the animals in the list as mammals. Read through a simple explanation of mammals at<br />
. Discuss that humans are also mammals so, like humans, the offspring<br />
<strong>res</strong>emble their parents. The offspring go through three simple stages of development—birth,<br />
young, adult. PC<br />
4. In pairs, students select one of the listed animals to <strong>res</strong>earch and explore how the animal looks<br />
at three different stages of its life: birth, young, adult. Students use a computer tablet to create<br />
a digital report. Students will need to find images to collate and write a description about the<br />
changes they can observe from the images, including size, colour and featu<strong>res</strong>. Suggested<br />
applications for the report include Seesaw, ShowMe and PowerPoint (see Resources). Students use<br />
page 17 to guide their enquiry and plan their digital report. PC PA C<br />
Differentiation:<br />
• Less capable students can record audio to describe the changes they see.<br />
• More capable students can write more detailed information for the different stages of the animal<br />
and <strong>res</strong>earch to find a fun fact about the animal as it becomes an adult.<br />
Reflection:<br />
5. Students show their digital report to the class and upload it online for family and friends to view.<br />
C<br />
6. Discuss any differences amongst those groups who <strong>res</strong>earched the same animal. E<br />
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A <strong>STEM</strong> APPROACH<br />
YEAR<br />
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