Know Your Cousins - Monotremas, Marsupials, and Placentals
Wilma Haynes Ruggles School
7831 S. Prairie
Chicago IL 60619
(312)535-3085
Objectives:
This lesson is designed for primary students. It identifies some mammals.
Students should be able to recognize characteristics of mammals. Students
should be able to categorize mammal groupings. Students should be able to
describe how mammals grow inside the mother's body and resemble their parents
at birth.
Materials Needed:
chalkboard chalk
feely box hair
fur eggs
milk bones
writing paper pencils
glue crayons
markers scissors
construction paper animal flashcards
animal pictures dice
game board
Strategy:
The activities I devised to carry out my objectives are as follows:
1. brainstorming
2. use of a feely box
3. place mammal vocabulary words into ABC order
4. unscramble mammal vocabulary words
5. make as many words as possible from one vocabulary word
6. write Teasing Tongue Twisters about specific mammals
7. make a Strange Mammal Booklet by putting together parts of mammal
pictures
8. make a shadow box with a favorite mammal
9. play Win Lose or Draw
10. play Password
11. play Concentration
12. play Know Your Mammal! (game) Make a game board using poster board
and pictures of mammals. A student will start at START and move around
the board by throwing a dice and landing on an animal picture. Next,
the student will state if the animal is a mammal or not. If the answer
is correct, the student will remain on the mammal picture. If the
answer is wrong, the student will go back to start.
13. write poems
14. write stories
15. write songs
Performance Assessment:
The students should be able to identify two mammals from the three categories
of mammals which are monotremas, marsupials, and placental mammals. The
students should be able to state the main characteristics of mammals which are
warm blooded, have back bones, have fur or hair, produce their own milk and
have live births. The students should be able to identify ten mammals. The
students should be able to state that mammals grow inside the mother's body, in
the uterus, and are surrounded by the placenta, and resemble their parents at
birth.
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