
Science Kids Animals

Overview
Students will explore the amazing world of animals with free games, projects, interesting quizzes, fun facts, amazing videos and more!
They will use the Science Kids website.
Learning Objectives
Students will:
- Be able to learn about different animal groups.
- Understand food chains and animal characteristics and traits.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Words:
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Environment: The environment is the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
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Food Chain: A food chain is a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
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Animal Groups: View the website for the six basic animal groups.
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Characteristics: Characteristics are a feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify it.
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Traits: Traits are a genetically determined characteristic.
Pre-planning
To prepare for this lesson:
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Introduce students to the six basic groups of animals.
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Review vocabulary.
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Preview Science Kids Animals.
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Show students Animal Groups Video.
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Create student partnerships.
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Provide students with premade animal booklets.
Accommodations
See Accommodations Page and Charts on the 21things4students.net site in the Teacher Resources.
Steps
Directions for this activity:
- Students log onto Science Kids Animals with their partners.
- Students work through games and facts together.
- Students can take quizzes.
- Students complete the animal booklet.
- Students select a partner to create a poster to share with the class.
Assessment Options
Different options for assessing the students:
- Observations
- Check for understanding
- Check the completed animal booklet.
- Create a Kahoot on the different animal groups.
- Have a class discussion.
- Provide an exit ticket on what was learned.
- Use quizzes provided on Science Kids Animals.
MITECS Competencies & ISTE STANDARDS
MITECS: Michigan adopted the "ISTE Standards for Students" called MITECS (Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students) in 2018.
Empowered Learner
1a. Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
1b. Students build networks and customize their learning environments in ways that support the learning process.
1c. Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
1d. Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
Devices and Resources
Device: PC, Chromebook, Mac, iPad
Browser: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, ALL
App, Extension, or Add-on:
Websites:
Animal Booklets
Animal Groups Video
CONTENT AREA RESOURCES
ELA
Write a research report on a specific animal group.
Integrated Arts
- Create a 3-D model of an animal.
- Create a diagram and label the parts of an animal.
Science
Create animal group posters.
Social Studies
Map where the different animal groups can be found.
CREDITS
This task card was created by Julie Hoehing, Lake Shore Public Schools, January 2020.