Hi everybody! We want to present
you the didactic unit that we’ve been learning during the last three weeks:
Animals characteristics and classification.
First of all,
using as support a PowerPoint and some videos from “youtube”, we learned about
the characteristics that differentiate animals from other organisms (plants, mushrooms
and algae):
- Animals feed on other
living things
- They have one or more
sense organs
- They can move
This was not easy for us to
interiorize, as it has some complex and abstract concepts; so we tried to
reinforce it with some sheets and revising it during different sessions.
Apart from that, we also studied
the animal classification! For that, we first read what the Science book
explains. As it says, we can classify animals having into account three
different aspects: what they eat, how they are born and the type of skeleton
they have. The information on the book was nice, but it was nicest to build our
own mind map!!!!
First we all together did a
conceptual map on the blackboard:
Next session we revised it and we
did our own map in each notebook.
Finally, after having revised the
entire unit, we’ve done a class mural with a beautiful mind map about animal
classification!
