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 details

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

creativity
critical thinking
collaboration
communication

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

Animal features - printed and cut out
Drawing materials.

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

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

We don’t have any related professional courses for this lesson at the moment, but we do have heaps of other Cool professional learning here.

Meaningful Moments: Animal Mix and Match

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