Heredity and Reproduction

 Day 1 - Review of Skills Taught

Review science skills taught previously.

1. Cells - Show a picture of a plant and animal cells. Ask students to name parts and functions. (SmartBoard Activity)

2. Landforms - Show pictures of landforms and have students identify each.

3. Habitats - Ask the students to list some animals while the teacher writes them on the board. Then ask students to name the habitats that they live in - desert, rainforest, tundra, wetlands, etc.

4. Review terms - producer, consumer, prey, predator

   1. Show four step food chains. Have students find consumers and producers, predators and prey.

5. Parts of a plant

   1. Name parts and functions of each.

   2. Name vegetables. Students tell which part of the plant they are eating.

6. Identify ways animals take in oxygen (lungs or gills)

7. Review vocabulary - consumers, producers, predator, prey

Day 2 -  Parents, Offspring, and Life Cycles

1. United Streaming - Animal Life Cycles (14:00)
   http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=53F4F60C-99B6-4E0B-85C4-B6491BFF8137&blnFromSearch=1
    
2. Grade 1 http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/science/up_close1.html
   • See Chapter 1 - Animals and Their Young
      
3. Read TCAP Coach Lesson 9 pages 68-71
    
4. File Folder Activity - Life Cycle of a Plant

   Match parent to offspring Compare photos of families. Pictures for discussion.

   • Humans http://www.mce.k12tn.net/animals/reproduction/family_photos.htm
   • Animals http://www.mce.k12tn.net/animals/reproduction/animal_photos.htm
      
5. Worksheets
   1. Turtle
   2. Alligator
   3. Chicken Egg
   4. Chicken
   5. Pig
   6. Swellshark
   7. Rabbit
   8. Wolf

Day 3 -  Life Cycles

Amphibian Life Cycles

1. United Streaming - Amphibian Reproduction and Life Cycles (03:54)
    
2. Grade 2  http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/science/up_close2.html
   • See Chapter 2 - The Life Cycle of a Frog
      
3. Many Links including videos http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Themes/frogs/
    
4. Tutorial - Life Cycle of a Frog http://bcs.whfreeman.com/thelifewire/content/chp34/34020.html
    
5. Interactive Whiteboard Activities (Includes flowering plant life cycle, frog, and man) http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/Phase2delivery/Wales/Science/Keystage2/Lifeprocessesan/Lifecycles/Introduction/
    
6. Go over stages of an Amphibian Life Cycles (frogs and newts)
   •  http://www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/printables/concepts/LStransparencies_12.pdf
      
7. Worksheet - Life Cycle of a Frog

Insect Life Cycles

1. United Streaming - Insect Life Cycles: Metamorphosis (15:00)
    
2. http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/forkids/butterfly/
    
3. Grade 3 http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/science/up_close3.html
   • See Chapter 1 Incomplete and Complete Metamorphosis
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   The Life Cycle of a Moth - Complete Metamorphosis

    

   caterpillar	------>	pupa
   ^ l l l l		l l l l V
   eggs	<------	adult

   
    

4. Go over complete and incomplete metamorphosis.
   • Complete Metamorphosis
     • 4 stages
       • egg [unborn]
       • larva [usually look like worms]
       • pupa [inactive, usually camouflaged]
       • adult [usually have wings]

   • Simple (Incomplete) Metamorphosis - About 12% of all insects, as well as spiders, go through incomplete metamorphosis. This group includes dragonflies, grasshoppers and cockroaches 4 stages egg [unborn] nymph [often look like adults without wings] adult [usually have wings]

5. File Folder Activity - Cycle of Life (Choose from plant, butterfly, or frog)
6. File Folder Activity - Animal Life Cycles (Choose from frog or butterfly)
7. Online Activities
    

   Sequencing frog, bean plant, and butterfly http://funschool.kaboose.com/formula-fusion/games/game_fun_science.html

   Life Cycles http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/patana/5t/science/lifecycles.swf

   Presentation about the Life Cycles of Butterflies and Frogs http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/science/powerpoint/butterflies_and_frogs.swf

   Sequencing the Life Cycles of Butterflies and Frogs http://www.tgfl.org.uk/tgfl/custom/resources_ftp/netmedia_ll/ks1/science/hamshall/life_cycles/images/lifecycleflash.swf

   The Life Cycle of a Butterfly http://www.flashclassroom.com/docs/flash/79_butterfly_emma.swf
    

8. Worksheet - Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Make life cycles

Day 4 -  Species Survival

1. Read TCAP Coach Lesson 10
2. Discussion
   • What would happen if an animal stopped reproducing?
   • What would happen if a flower was not pollinated?
   • What would happen if eggs are not fertilized?
3. vocabulary - endangered, extinct, thriving, threatened

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Complete worksheet - Life Cycle of a Grasshopper

The Life Cycle of a Spider - Incomplete Metamorphosis

Eggs	Egg Sac
Spiderlings	Adult Spider

Create an Imaginary Animal

Plan the following

• What does your creatures will look like?

  • coloring

  • skin, fur, scales, etc. - Habitat - Does your animal live where it is cold or hot?

  • teeth - What does your animal  eat?

  • type of legs, fins, wings, etc. How does your animal move?

  • male or female

  • size

• adaptations to habitat and/or diet

• migration