Over the past 2 weeks we've been looking at the Animal Kingdom in Science. We are learning about classification of Animals- and specifically the characteristics of the Vertebrate animals.
Last week we brought in specimens and practiced sorting and classifying by physical characteristics, like size, material, color, function, and many, many more!
We've created a Classification Diagram in our Science Notebook, and sorted a variety of animals by examining their characteristics, too.
Today we started creating a chart showing these characteristics in yet a different format. Finishing the chart is tonight's homework. Tomorrow we will glue the chart into our notebooks.The rest of this week we will continue to review the characteristics of vertebrates. Next week we will assess student learning for our first science unit.
What your student needs to know:
- Animals are classified by relationship and characteristics
- Vertebrates have backbones and internal skeletons, invertebrates do not have backbones
- Vertebrates are divided into 5 classes and each have their own set of characteristics.
- Amphibians: live part of their lives in water and part on land, have gills when young that later develop into lungs, are cold-blooded, and have moist skin.
- Birds: are warm-blooded, are covered in feathers (most, but not all can fly), hatch from eggs, and breath with lungs
- Fish: are cold-blooded, breathe through gills, (most) hatch from eggs, and have scales
- Mammals: are warm-blooded, give birth to live babies, breathe with lungs, are covered in fur or hair, and females produce milk to feed their babies.
- Reptiles: hatch from leathery, tough eggs, are cold-blooded, have dry, scaly skin, and breathe with lungs
Students should also be able to give an example of each class of vertebrates.
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