Subject : Science

Topic : Animals

Duration : 2 periods

 

Pre-requisite

Pupils are able to name some common animals and the places where different animals live.

 

Specific Instructional Objectives

Pupils should be able to

  1. Name the animals and the different kinds of food they eat
  2. Classify animals according to their outer covering
  3. State the function of outer covering

 

Thinking Skills

  1. Classifying

 

Learning and Teaching Materials

  1. Title if Courseware: Animals 2.0
  2. Primary 3 Science Textbook
  3. Worksheet 1 - 2

 

Teaching and Learning Environment

  1. Full Computer Laboratory

 

Instructional Strategies

  1. Discuss the food the pupils ate for breakfast/lunch
  2. Introduce the word ‘plant eaters’ , ‘animal eaters’ and ‘plant and animal eaters’
  3. Show them how to get into the relevant parts of the courseware
  4. Distribute worksheet 1. Go through the worksheet
  5. Have pupils click on Tour and Critter Coverings to do question 1
  6. Have pupils click on Tropical Rain Forest to do question 2,3 and 4
  7. Check pupils’ understanding by going through the answers with the pupils
  8. Distribute worksheet 2. Go through the worksheet. Pupils to click on Tropical Rain Forest to do question 1
  9. Pupils to click on Creature Features and then to Whose Shield to do question 2,3 and 4

SCIENCE

WORKSHEET 1

 

Name: Date:

Class: Primary 3

 

 

  1. Complete the classification table below.

Write the name of the animals and the food they eat.

Animals

Food

a)

  
   
   

b)

  
   
   

c)

  
   
   
   

 

  1. Some animals eat plants. The Tapir feeds on and the Hyacinth Macaw feeds on and nuts.
  1. Some animals eat other animals. The anaconda feeds mostly on mammals and and the False Gavial feeds on .
  1. The eats both plants and animals. It eats termites, , tree fruits and tips of .

 

SCIENCE

WORKSHEET 2

 

Name: Date:

Class: Primary 3

 

  1. Complete the classification below:
     
 

African Pygmy Falcon

 

Polar Bear

  

Human
 

Kikuyu Colobus Monkey

  

Human

  

Boa Constrictor

   

 

 

 

 

Scales

  

Hair

  

Feather
         
         
         
         
  1. Unable to outrun its attackers the conveniently withdraw into its armoured .
  1. protect themselves with a whole backload of sharp that hurts.

4) The rhino’s has thick folds that acts like a suit of .
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