Title: Animal life processes

Author: Zyta Sendecka

Target Group

Pupils of the fourth grade of primary school.

Core Curriculum

Grade IV

VI. The natural environment of the local area. Pupil:

9) Can distinguish between self‑nutritious and heterotrophic organisms, give basic differences in the way of their nutrition, indicate adaptations in the development of organisms to gain food.

The general aim of education

Pupils describe selected life processes of animals.

Criteria for success

• Distinguish the ways in which animals feed;

• Give examples of different types of animal respiration;

• Discuss methods of animal reproduction

Key Competences

• Communication in the mother tongue;

• Communication in foreign languages;

• Mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology;

• Digital competence;

• Learning to learn;

• Social and civic competences.

Methods / forms of work

Working with the text, teaching game „Who is it? What is this? „, The” Smiley „method.

Individual work and group work.

Teaching aids

• abstract;

• interactive or traditional board;

• tablets / computers;

• playing cards „Who is it? What is it?”

Before classes

Students will get acquainted with the content of the abstract, paying particular attention to definitions of the terms: „herbivore”, „predator”, „parasite”, „scavenger”, „omnivore”, „lungs”, „gills”, „trachea”, „oviparity” and „viviparity”. The teacher prepares the cards of the game „Who is it? What is this?” Based on abstract.

Lesson phases

Introduction

The teacher gives the subject and the purpose of the lesson in a language that the student understands as well as the criteria for success.

Realization

1. The teacher presents an interactive illustration. Volunteers or pupils chosen by the teacher determine the life processes of the animals. The teacher complements or verifies the students' answers.

2. Students independently perform an interactive exercise.

3. The teacher divides the class into two groups and invites students to play the game „Who is it? What is it?”. The teacher explains the rules: both groups receive the same number of cards. There are four hints on the cards that allow players to guess the password, which are the selected life processes. They get a point for each used hint. If the group does not guess the password, it gets two penalty points. The groups guess one password alternatively. The team with fewest points wins.

Summary

The teacher asks pupils to evaluate the way of delivering the new content using the „Smiley” method

The following terms and recordings will be used during this lesson

Terms

Texts and recordings

Animal life processes

Animals like all other organisms must eat to live. Food is essential for body development and for supporting life processes. All animals are heterotrophic. Food must be obtained by eating other organisms or by feeding on their remains.

• Animals that eat only or mostly food from plants (plants or just parts of plants) are called, herbivores.

• Animals that eat almost only the flesh of other animals that they kill themselves, are called, predators.

• Animals that feed on other animals (e.g. drinking their blood), but without killing them are parasites.

The necessity of searching for food is the reason why the vast majority of animals have the ability to move. Numerous adaptations of body structure (e.g. muscles, legs, wings, etc.) serve this purpose.

• Most invertebrates living in water and fish breathe with gills.

• Amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals breathe with their lungs.

• All animals are heterotrophic

• Animals eat other organisms (plants or animals), they parasitize on them, feeding on their debris or feces.

• Most animals have the ability to move.

• The reproduction of animals may occur by way of oviparity, ovoviviparity and viviparity.