TITLE

THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE

GROUP

1º ESO

RESOURCES
AND MATERIALS

-Activity Book (information and activities).

-Website of this subject and other sites from Internet.

-Educational films.

-Silkworms.

-Collection of shells and dichotomic key.

-Rest of food from a barn owl.

-Fishes.

-Quiz about animals.

-Mission Explore (game from the British Natural History Museum).

-Guessing animals. The mysterious animal game.

TEACHERS

Content teacher

Pablo Acosta Robles

English teacher

Josefina Herrera Cides and Mª Carmen Chilla Castro

Language assistant

Lorna Geddie and Eleonora Scheltus

AIMS

English

-Using the verb “belong to” to relate animals and their groups.

-Answer this question “Which is the odd one out?”.

-Learning the names of common animals.

-Learning to describe animals

-Find out the name of an animal after listening to its description.

-Ask questions about the appeareance of an animal?

-Using the verb “be for” and answer the question “What is it for?”.

-Comparing animals using these words: similarities, similar to, have in common, differences, different from.

-Using this words: amphibian, aquatic, arthropod, backbone, beak, bone, breathe, bugs, endangered, environment, feather, fin, gills, legs, insect, invertebrate, lay eggs, lung, mammal, mollusc, oviparous, reptile, scale, skeleton, skin, shell, species, threaten, vertebrate, viviparous, wing.

Content

-Say the group a given animal belongs to.

-Compare vertebrates and invertebrates.

-Compare the different groups of arthropods.

-Compare the different groups of molluscs.

-Compare the different groups of vertebrates.

-Use a dichotomic key.

-Observe an animal, draw and describe it.

-Observe the vital cycle of an animal (silkworm and frog).

-Relate respiratory system to the place where the animals live in.

-Compare land animal reproduction and aquatic animal reproduction.

-Value every l iving beings, especially endangered species.

ACTIVITIES/

TEACHING TECHNIQUES

-Complete a comparative table about the different types of animals.

-Studying a collection of pictures about animals and setting the groups they belong to.

-Making an animal card.

-Listening to the description of a mysterious animal and making a picture of it.

-Guessing animals.

-Working as a zoologist from the British Natural History Museum (Mission Explore game).

-Learnig English vocabulary about animals using the website of this subject.

-Surfing a website about arthropods.

-Homework: follow the vital cycle of a silkworm until it becomes a butterfly.

-Laboratory work: identifying molluscs using a dichotomic key.

-Laboratory work: dissection of “egagrópilas”.

-Laboratory work: dissection of a fish.

-Field work: urban birds.

-Contest: questions and answers about animals.

CONTENTS

Concepts

-Introduction.

-Invertebrates.

-Vertebrates.

-Describing animals in English.

-Endangered species.

Procedures

-Summarise information in a table.

-Make an animal card.

-Be careful and tidy in the lab.

-Pay attention during a dissection and to take notes carefully.

Attitudes

-Value observation of nature.

-Be interested to understand the animal world.

-Recognise the importance of animals, specially endangered animals.

-Respect any animals.

ASSESMENT

-Written tests.

-Lab-sheets.

-Animals card.

-Homework.

-Work about silkworm.

-Work about rest of food from a barn owl.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Visit http://www.ieslosremedios.org/~pablo/webpablo/web1eso/7animals/guiaanimals.html