Meaningful Moments: Animal Mix and Match

Meaningful Moments: Animal Mix and Match

Activity 13 of 15 in this unit

  • Cool+
  • Foundation
  • Science
  • Biology
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Activity summary

Students will study a range of body features that animals have, and compare these to the features of humans. They are then assigned a number of animal features and will create a new animal based on these features.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • understand that different animals have different features.

Success criteria:

Students can...

  • explain which features belong to which animals
  • think creatively in combining features to create and draw new animals.

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Activity Instructions
Animal Features

Activity details

Skills

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

  • creativity
  • critical thinking
  • collaboration
  • communication

Curriculum Mapping

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Foundation Science:

  • Observe external features of plants and animals and describe ways they can be grouped based on these features (AC9SFU01)

Relevant parts of Foundation Science achievement standards: Students group plants and animals based on external features.

NSW Syllabus outcomes: STe-1WS-S

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking

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Additional Info

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - engage students in a class discussion, oversee drawing task.

Related Professional Learning

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