Activities
Animal Investigations
Students will go on a web quest to learn about the classifications and needs of animals. Students will go to SeaWorld Website and pick an animal from the animals info books section. Here they will click through and learn about the animals eating habits, adaptations, physical characteristics, habitats, how they reproduce and how they care for their babies.
Supplies needed: Construction paper, markers, computers. Website: https://seaworld.org/en/animal-info/animal-infobooks.
Students will make a report in a comic book form about their animals. Students will work in groups of two. Students will draw pictures and make text bubbles with sentences that explains what their chosen animal's habitat looks like, what they need to survive, what their animal looks like or sounds like, and what kind of adaptations their animal has, it any.
Books with no Words
Students will pick a book with no words in it and work with a partner to create words and sentences that will go along with the illustrations in the book. Students will need to look at all of the pictures and discuss what is going on in the story. Once they have made a plan of what their story will be about, they will create their own book by recreating the illustrations and the new words that go along with their book. Students will be encouraged to make additional illustrations if needed to make their story more interesting.
As an extension to this activity students will make a 3D art project that represents the main character or habitat of their new story.
Fact Paper Plates
Students will make a pictorial using a paper plate to explain about guinea pigs or an animal they investigated. They will make a picture of their animal on the paper plate in the middle. They will them hang facts about their animal with sting. Students must have at least five true facts about the animal they chose. Facts will be pictures, words, or sentences on construction paper. Students may need adult help to make holes in their plates and construction paper. Then they will attach with string to the paper plate.
Supplies needed: thin paper plates, string, hole puncher, construction paper, glue, scissors, markers, and crayons.
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