Animals

Table of Contents Georgia Performance Standards Identify the needs of animals -Air -Water -Food -Shelter Identify the types of animals and their characteristics The Lifecycle of an Animal Pie Chart and Column Chart Cool Animal Books Resources Click on the monkeys to hear how they sound!!!!!!!!!

S1L1. Students will investigate the characteristics and basic needs of plants and animals. b. Identify the basic needs of an animal. • Air • Water • Food • Shelter d. Compare and describe various animals-appearance, motion, growth, basic needs

The Basic Needs of Animals Air Food Water Shelter

ANIMALS NEED AIR Animals need to spend sometime outdoors. They need the fresh air just like we need fresh air. Spend time exercising your animal. This will make them healthy! Click on the website to find out more information. http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/animalwelfare/13955.html

Animals Need Water Click on the cat to learn more about Just like we need water to survive, animals need water too. If animals do not get enough clean water, they will get sick quickly and die. Also make sure that the container that the water is in is clean. Clean, cool water is particularly important for all animals, and especially: when the weather is hot for animals that spend a lot of time out in the sun for animals that have been working or exercising for animals that eat mainly dried food like cat or dog biscuits or mouse or guinea pig pellets for mothers that are nursing young animals Click on the cat to learn more about water for animals.

Animals Need Food!! Animals need the right kind of food to survive. Just like we need food for energy, so do animals. Make sure you feed them the right kind of food. Click on the website below to learn more about the right kind of food to give your animal. http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/animalwelfare/13973.html Click here to see a small video on “what animals eat.” Click on View then Test Drive to see video. http://www.teachersdomain.org/K-2/sci/life/colt/eat/index.html

Animals Need Shelter Animals need a shelter. This shelter or home needs to protect them from the hot, cold, and from danger. Also the place in which the animal lives has to have all the necessities they need in order to survive.

The Types of Animals Mammals Reptiles Birds Fish Insects Amphibians warm-blooded backbone fur or hair well-developed brain Babies are fed with milk from the mother’s body. Reptiles dry, rough, scaly skin cold-blooded lungs for breathing most hatch from eggs Birds have feathers hatch from eggs backbones beak two wings two legs Fish lives in water breaths through gills most have fins most are covered with scales Insects six legs three main body parts (head, thorax, and abdomen) hard outer covering (exoskeleton) most have wings most have a pair of antennae Amphibians usually lives part of its life in water and part of its life on land most have smooth, moist skin no scales

The Lifecycle of an Animal fast. This is an example of the life cycle of chicken. You can see if starts off as an egg and then grows into an adult. Once it is an adult, the chicken will lay an egg and the cycle will start all over again. This is an example of a lifecycle of an animal. Most animals start out as an egg. After the baby hatches or is born live (mammals), then the baby quickly grows. Some babies take a long time to become an adult while others grow up Just born Egg Adult Baby http://esd.iu5.org/LessonPlans/LifeCycle/animals.htm Click here to learn about more lifecycle of animals.

The Animals We Have at Home While in class, the students graphed the pets they had at home. This is an example of how to incorporate math with our learning of animals. This chart is an example of a graph that the teacher can do in the classroom.

*As you can see, there are more Insects than any other species of animals.

Great Animal Books If You Give a Pig a Party By Laura Numeroff Dog Breath By Dan Pilkey Tops and Bottoms By Janet Stevens Great Animal Books Fantastic Mr. Fox By Roald Dahl Cricket in Time Square By George Selden Charlotte’s Web By E.B. White

Resources http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/animalwelfare/11594.html Great source for information on animals and their need http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/animal_classes.htm Great source on animals classification http://www.amazon.com/ Great source on books and literature http://esd.iu5.org/LessonPlans/LifeCycle/animals.htm Great source on lifecycles