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Vocabulary                    Vocabulary Terms: characteristics, features, classification, environment, habitat,organism, similar, different, survival, extinct, adaptations,endangered, amphibian, bird, fish, arthropod, mammal, reptile,metamorphosis, exoskeleton, fossil, larvae, pupae, nesting,migration, hibernation

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Essential Understanding    Living things change over time

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Essential Understanding    Living things change over time

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Each animal group has a distinct life cycle:

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Each animal group has a distinct life cycle:

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Essential Understanding    Animals depend on one another and their environment

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Essential Understanding    Animals depend on one another and their environment

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Each animal group has a distinct life cycle:

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Each animal group has a distinct life cycle:

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Each animal group has a distinct life cycle:

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Each animal group has a distinct life cycle:

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Essential knowledge     Animals depend on the environment and each other for survival.

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Essential knowledge     Animals depend on the environment and each other for survival.

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Each animal group has a distinct life cycle:

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Each animal group has a distinct life cycle:

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Animals can be classified by their characteristics

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Animal Classification for Children: Classifying Vertebrates and Invertebrates for Kids - FreeSchool

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Essential knowledge  Some animals migrate or hibernate.

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Essential knowledge  Some animals migrate or hibernate.

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Essential knowledge     Changes in habitat affect animals.

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Essential knowledge     Changes in habitat affect animals.

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Amphibians: cold blooded, moist skin, breathe with gills and then develop lungs, metamorphosis, hatch from eggs

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Amphibians: cold blooded, moist skin, breathe with gills and then develop lungs, metamorphosis, hatch from eggs

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Arthropods: exoskeleton, a segmented body, jointed legs, no backbone, cold blooded

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Arthropods: exoskeleton, a segmented body, jointed legs, no backbone, cold blooded

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Arthropods: varies egg, larvae, pupae, adult (butterfly, ant, moth) egg, egg sac, spiderling, adult

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Arthropods: varies egg, larvae, pupae, adult (butterfly, ant, moth) egg, egg sac, spiderling, adult

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Birds: backbone, warm blooded, wings, breathe with lungs, hatchfrom eggs, beak, two legs, feathers

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Birds: backbone, warm blooded, wings, breathe with lungs, hatchfrom eggs, beak, two legs, feathers

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Fish: backbone, breathe with gills, have fins, covered with scales,hatch from eggs, cold blooded

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Fish: backbone, breathe with gills, have fins, covered with scales,hatch from eggs, cold blooded

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Mammals: warm blooded, covered with fur/hair, born live,breathe with lungs, have backbones, nurse their young

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Mammals: warm blooded, covered with fur/hair, born live,breathe with lungs, have backbones, nurse their young

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Reptiles: scales, cold blooded, breathe with lungs, backbone,hatch from eggs

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Reptiles: scales, cold blooded, breathe with lungs, backbone,hatch from eggs

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Each animal group has a distinct life cycle:

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Each animal group has a distinct life cycle:

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SampleClassroom Assessments     SampleLessons and Strategies          Design a variety of ways to sort and classify animals based on characteristics Compare animals within the same species.  Use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast animals and animal groups. Make a diagram showing the life cycle of a specific animal. Use pictures and/or models to sort and classify a         Sort animal pictures into the appropriate animal group.                     Draw and label the stages of an animal’s life cycle.