Ages 3-5 [Early Years] Young and Adult Animals

[Marisa May]

Overview
In this lesson students will learn to recognize and explain differences between young and adult animals. This lesson is a traditional teacher model with differentiated worksheets activities/ scaffolded learning to independent practice.

Learning Objective	Students will identify differences between young animals and adults. Students will learn fundamental ideas such that adult animals no longer grow.
Success Criteria	• Can identify differences between baby and adult animals. • Can understand that adult animals no longer grow.
UK Curriculum Links	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-science-programmes-of-study Year 1 Programme of Study: Animals (including humans) Pupils might work scientifically by: using their observations to compare and contrast animals at first hand or through videos and photographs, describing how they identify and group them.
US Curriculum Links / NGSS	https://www.nextgenscience.org/search-standards? Grade: K-2 One major use of pattern recognition is in classification, which depends on careful observation of similarities and differences; objects can be classified into groups on the basis of similarities of visible or microscopic features or on the basis of similarities of function. Patterns of similarity and difference and the resulting classifications may change, depending on the scale at which a phenomenon is being observed.

Key Vocabulary
In this lesson, children will have opportunities to use: Words relating to conveying scientific ideas eg describe.

Procedure

Lead in / Warm Up / Introduction ( 10 minutes )
For the warm-up activity, ask the students the following questions: What are some differences between baby humans and adult humans? What are some differences between a baby animal and an adult animal?

Presentation / Teacher Model ( 15 minutes )

Present the PowerPoint. Ask students to identify which picture is the adult. Discuss the similarities and differences of the young and the adult. Encourage students to use descriptive words such as "bigger", "older", "taller", etc for the adult. Similarities may include two legs, two arms, hair, eyes, etc. Be sure to make the distinction that some young look similar to their adult while others (i.e. caterpillar) do not look like their adult (i.e. butterfly). Questions and answers from the PowerPoint slide 2 What is similar? What is different? The baby and the dad are similar because both have hair. They are different because the dad is bigger. slide 3 Here is an adult dog and a baby dog. What is similar? What is different? The adult dog and baby dog are similar because they both have two ears. They are different because the baby dog (puppy) is smaller. slide 4 These are lions. How are the adults different from the young? The adult lions have longer hair than the young lions. slide 5 Here is a butterfly and a caterpillar. How are they different? The caterpillar is the adult and it has wings. slide 6 Here is an adult horse and a baby horse. How are they similar? How are they different? The adult horse and the baby horse both have tails. The adult horse has a longer tails. slide 7 Which picture is the Adult deer? The first picture on the left is the adult deer. slide 8 Which animal is the adult bird? The second picture on the left is the adult bird.

Main Activities ( 15 minutes )

In this lesson, there will be 3 activities to complete with the students. Go through the powerpoint as above with the students, making sure that everyone is engaged and answering questions. Next, the class will play Young and Adult Memory Card Activity. The matching cards and instructions are included in the document. The final activity is for the students to practice the material independently. The students will be given a coloring page in which they will color corresponding adults and babies the same color.

Extension Task
Ask students if they are young or adult and explain why they chose young or adult. Once you discuss or redirect them to understand they are young, have them draw a picture of what they will look like as an adult.

Plenary / Assessment ( 5 minutes )
At the end of the lesson, the class should be able to make a collaborative Venn diagram that compares and contrasts adults and baby animals and their features.

Resources and materials
Whiteboard Dry erase marker or chalk Pencils Paper Powerpoint Young and Adult Memory Card Activity Young and Adult Coloring Page

Worksheet/Handout Previews
Young and Adult Powerpoint	Young and Adult Memory Card Game	Young and Adult Coloring Page

Presentation Preview
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