ANIMALS

Different classes in the animal kigdom

http://driverlayer

Vertebrates and invertebrates

http://pulpbits.com/5-types-of-invertebrates/

UNIT 1: ANIMALS

1.INTRODUCTION: - Living things

                                 - Non- Living things

1.INTRODUCTION:

a. Living things: Characteristics:

We know a thing is a living thing because living things:

·      Born
. Grow
. Reproduce
. Die

·      Move

·      Feed/eat

·      Breathe

·      Sensitivity

All these characteristics are very important for living things to survive.

Living things are: people/humans, plants and animals.

b. Non-Living things: are things which do not have those characteristics.

2. VERTEBRATES: Animals that have bones.

Types of vertebrates:

a. Mammals

b. Fish

c. Birds

d. Reptiles

e. Amphibians

a. Mammals:

• They breathe through lungs
• They are born from mother´s womb.
• They have hair or fur.
• They drink their mother´s milk.
• They are warm-blooded.

2.- TYPES OF MAMMALS

● CARNIVORES: They eat meat like lions.

● HERBIVORES: They eat grass, plants and fruit like cows.

● OMNIVORES: They eat meat from other animals and also plants and fruit like human beings.

VOCABULARY:

• Mane: Lions´ hair.
• Paw: felins´ feet.
• Deer: male.
• Doe: female.
• Sheep: female
• Ram: male.
• Quill: the thing that covers porcupine´s body.
• hump: the back of camels.
• Pouch: small bag where kangaroos keep their jories.
• Hoof: Horses and zebras´ feet.
• Trunk: elephants´nose.
• Tusks: elephants´ horn.
• Pup: baby seal.
• Jory: baby kangaroo
• Cub: baby lion
• Kitten:baby cat.
• Puppy: baby dog.

b.Fish:

• They breathe through gills.
• Their body is covered with scales.
• They live under the water.
• They are cold-blooded.
• They are born from eggs. OVIPAROUS
• They have fins for swimming.

http://www.clairelabs.com/art/acousticaquatica/1-fish-anatomy-1

FISH ANATOMY

    c. Birds

-         They are born from eggs. OVIPAROUS.

-         They breathe through lungs.

-         Their body is covered with feathers.

-         They have two wings and two legs.

-         They are warm-blooded.

-         They don’t have ears, they have holes.

VOCABULARY:

  Soar = glide
-fly
-Spread wings
-Nest: birds´house.
-Perch: to stay in a branch.
-Churp = twitt.
-Lay eggs.
-Hatch: babies hatch from eggs.

d. Reptiles

- They have ear holes.

-They have dry scaly skin.

-They are cold-blooded.

-They lay eggs. OVIPAROUS.

-They breathe through lungs.

-They have 4 legs or no legs.

VOCABULARY:

• Forked tongue: snakes have forked tongues.
• Shell: tortoises´house.
• Prey
• Hiss: snakes´sound.
• Slither: snakes slither on the ground.

e. Amphibians

- The have four legs or no legs

- They breathe through gills when they are babies, then with lungs

- The can live on land or in water

- They are cold blooded

- They lay many eggs. OVIPAROUS

- They have smooth skin.

TYPES: 

• Frogs
• Salamanders
• Toads.
• Newts

VOCABULARY:

• Webbed feet: amphibians´ feet.
• Tadpole: baby frog.
• Croack: the ribbit ribbit sound
• Lily pad: the flowers of the ponds.
• Ponds: little lakes.
• Bumpy skin: the opposite of smooth skin.
• Amphibians catch their food with their tongues.

FROG LIFE CYCLE

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/amphibians/Frogquiz.shtml

	BREATHING	BORN	BODY COVERING	BODY PARTS	BLOOD
MAMMALS	Lungs	Viviparous (Mother´s Womb)	Hair or fur	Legs, arms, tail…	Warm
FISH	Gills	Oviparous (Eggs)	Scales	Fins (pectoral, dorsal, …)	Cold
REPTILES	Lungs	Oviparous (Eggs)	Dry scaly skin	4 legs/no legs	Cold
AMPHIBIANS	Gills -> Lungs	Oviparous (Many Eggs)	Smooth skin	4 legs/no legs	Cold
BIRDS	lungs	Oviparous (Eggs)	Feathers	2 legs, 2 wings, beak,…	Warm

Links of English and Science:

→ Seres vivos y seres inertes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3b2VCNzhZo

→ Tipos de animales:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv6pu-fl01s&noredirect=1

MAMMALS

→ Características mamíferos

http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/mammals.htm

→Partes del cuerpo animales:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNd6wQ3S38s&feature=related

→Partes del cuerpo animales dibujos animados:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rom5ADJpXc

FISH

Clasificación de los peces

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/classification/kc_classification_fish.htm

Salmon song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV30UZ9aF04

Alimentación de los atunes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmVUR-HAKBI

Características de los peces

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzGNR2rU-N4

BIRDS

Clasificación de los pájaros

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/classification/kc_classification_birds.htm

Qué es un pájaro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj0Vs-LUjfg

Ciclo de la vida de los pájaros

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghz-M0J_RYA

REPTILES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rdnd3iZw2g

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/classification/kc_classification_reptiles.htm

AMPHIBIANS

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/classification/kc_classification_amphibians.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdelWdbrwww

http://www.turtlediary.com/grade-1-games/science-games/frog-life-cycle.html

REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS EPISODIO 1 PARTES 1, 2, &3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-I34T3fGdY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCWGqeHDbBk&feature=watch_response

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdUOMK3vKnU

REVISION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YypFWNC9ryY

GAMES

Carnivores, herbivores or omnivores.

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/animaldietgame.htm

Vertebrates characteristics

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/animalclassgame.htm

Food chain

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/foodchaingame.htm

Vertebrate animals

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/quizzes/kidscorner/animal_games_forest_large.html

Vertebrates and invertebrates

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/quizzes/kidscorner/animal_africanRiver_btn_large.html

Ocean animals

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/quizzes/kidscorner/animal_games_water_surface_btn_large.html

Seek and find

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/seekandfind/indexseekandfind.htm

Memory matching games

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/matching/matching.htm

http://www.reptilechannel.com/reptile-fun/reptile-games/memory-game.aspx

http://www.reptilechannel.com/reptile-fun/reptile-games/jigsaw-puzzle.aspx

3. INVERTEBRATES

Invertebrates are animals that do not have a skeleton.

TYPES:
a. INSECTS
b. ARACHNIDS
c. CRUSTACEANS
d. MIRYAPODA
e. MOLLUSKS
f. WORMS AND LEECHES
g. ECHINODERMS
h. CNIDARIA
i. PORIFERA

There are more than 2 million type of invertebrates. Some of them live in the land and some others live under the water. Like vertebrates they can be carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.

a. Insects: 

Characteristics

- Their body is divided in three main parts.
-   They have two antennae on their head.
-    Six legs on the thorax
-    Most of them have four wings on the thorax.
-    When they hatch they are called larvae

 Parts:

b. Arachnids:

-         There are hundreds of thousands of species of arachnids.

Characteristics:

-          Arachnids have eight legs, and unlike insects, they don't have antennae.

-         Their bodies are divided into two sections, the cephalothorax in front and the abdomen behind.

Parts:

Types:

·        Black widow spider

·        Camel spider

·        Dust mite

·        Tick

·        Tarantula

·        Scorpion

VOCABULARY:

. Spider web
. Spin: To make a spiderweb
. Spiderling: Baby spider
. Poisonous

c. Crustaceans:

They are among the most successful animals, and there are  as  plentiful in the oceans as insects are on the land (they are like the insects of the ocean). They are characterized by having a jointed body and limbs, and a hard outer shell.

Types:

·        Crawfish

·        Krill

·        Hermit Crab

·        Horseshoe crab

·        Lobster

·        Shrimp

VOCABULARY:

Pincers
To pinch: Crabs can hurt you with the pincers
Scuttle :The way crabs walk.

d. Myriapoda

Characteristics:

- They have a pair of antennae.

- They have two eyes.

- The mouth parts are on the underside of the head.

- They have two mandibles in the mouth.

TYPES:

. Centipede
. Millipede
. Symphyla
. Pauropoda.

e. Mollusks

Characteristics:

. Mollusks are invertebrates with soft bodies.

. Most of them have one or two shells.

. Almost all mollusks are marine animals.

Types:

. Clams

. Mussels

. Octopus/ Octopi

. Squids

. Snails 

f. Worms and Leeches:

- Worms are invertebrates with long, soft flexible bodies.
- They don´t have arms or legs.

- Earthworms, marine worms and intestinal worms are type of worms.

- Some worms produce serious illnesses in humans.

Types:

·        Earthworm ·        Flatworm ·        Leech ·        Roundworm ·        Tapeworm

g. Echinoderms:

Characteristics:

. They are marine animals.

. They get their names because of their spiny skin.

. They usually show a 5 part radial symmetry.

. Most of them are equiped with tube feet.

Types:

. Starfish

. Sand dollar.

. Sea urchins

. Sea cucumber

h. Cnidaria:

Characteristics:

. They are marine animals.

. Radial symmetry.

. They have stingins cells called nematocysts to help capture food.

. Sing can be fatal for humans.

Types:

.Jellyfish

.Sea anemonas

.Corals

.Hydra

i. Porifera:

Characteristics:

. They are the simplest animals.

. They are multicellular ( no tissues, muscles, nerves or internal organs)

. Mostly asymmetrical.

. They use water to filter food particles through their bodies.

Types:

. Sponges