External features-teacher-resource-booklet

EXTERNAL FEATURES TEACHER RESOURCE BOOKLET

THIS BOOKLET COMPLEMENTS THE EXTERNAL FEATURES KIT WHICH CAN BE BORROWED FROM QUEENSLAND

MUSEUM LOANS. Ph (07) 3406 8344 or http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/Learning+Resources/QM+Loans Images on this page: QM, CC licence 3.0, BY-NC-SA.

Saltwater crocodile, Crocodylus porosus.

Poinciana Longicorn Beetle, Agrianome spinicollis.

Soldier Crab, Mictyris longicarpus.

Koala, Phascolarctos cinereus.

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External Features booklet, Queensland Museum, 2011. www.qm.qld.gov.au

This booklet supports several topics within the Australian Science Curriculum.

Year 1

The Features of Living Things

Living things have a variety of external features.

• recognise common features of animals such as head, legs and wings

• describe the use of animal body parts for particular purposes such as moving and feeding

• identify common features of plants such as leaves and roots

• describe the use of plant parts for particular purposes such as making food and obtaining water

The Habitats of Living Things

Living things live in different places where their needs are met.

• recognise that different living things live in different places such as land and water

Year 3

Characteristics of Living Things

Living things can be grouped on the basis of observable features and can be distinguished from non-living things.

• recognise the range of different living things

• sort living and non-living things based on characteristics

• explore difference between living, once living and the products of living things

Students are encouraged to handle the objects in External Features kit under teacher supervision.

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This booklet was developed by:

Adriana Bauer Senior Project Officer (Biodiversity) Strategic Learning Queensland Museum 2011

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MATCHING ACTIVITY

Match the covering with the correct animal. Draw a line from the type of covering on the left to the animal on the right.

Feathers Reptiles (e.g. snakes and lizards)

Fur or hair Amphibians (e.g. frogs and toads)

Dry, scaly skin Birds

Moist scaly skin, fins Mammals (e.g. koalas, wallabies)

Smooth, moist slimy skin Fish

Covering Animal

Image: Sami Sieranoja, BY. Image: QM, BY-NC-SA.

Image: QM, BY-NC-SA.

Image: QM, BY-NC-SA.

Image: Dan Carter, BY-NC-SA.

Image: Francisco Martins, BY-NC.

Image: Leo Reynolds, BY-NC-SA.

Image: Lisa Brown, BY-NC. Image: QM, BY-NC-SA.

Image: QM, BY-NC-SA. Image: Taras Kalapun, BY.


ANIMAL COVERINGS ACTIVITY

Look and feel the animal coverings in the kit. Write one or two words to describe each.

Animal Look and Feel of Covering

Koala

Crocodile

Turtle

Echidna

Snake

Cassowary

All images: QM, BY-NC-SA.


Animal Look and Feel of Covering

Crab

Snail

Coral

Barnacle

Sea Urchin

Cicada



ANIMAL HABITATS ACTIVITY

Decide where you think each animal lives. Does it live mainly on land or in water? Put a tick in the correct column.

Animal Image of Animal Lives on Land

Lives in Water

Fish

Koala

Crocodile

Turtle

Echidna



ANIMAL HABITATS ACTIVITY

Decide where you think each animal lives. Does it live mainly on land or in water? Put a tick in the correct column.

Animal Image of Animal Lives on Land

Lives in Water

Snake

Cassowary

Crab

Snail

Coral



ANIMAL PARTS ACTIVITY

Use a hand lens to examine one of the animals in the resin blocks. Collect small invertebrates from your school yard. Draw one of these animals. Label parts like its head, legs and wings.

Colour in the parts of the animal that help it to MOVE. Use a red colour.

Colour in the parts of the animal that help it to FEED. Use a green colour.


USE OF BODY PARTS ACTIVITY

Animals have special parts that help them to move and eat. Use a RED pencil to circle the parts of the animal that help it to FEED. Use a BLUE pencil to circle the parts of the animal that help it to MOVE.

If you know the name of these parts, then label these parts.

Image of Cassowary: Brian Giesen, CC licence, BY. All other images: QM, BY-NC-SA.


PLANT PARTS ACTIVITY

Look at the laminated plants in the kit.

• Draw a picture of a flowering plant in the space below

• Label the LEAVES and the ROOTS and the FLOWER

• Colour in the parts of the plant that make FOOD. Use a GREEN pencil

• Colour in the parts of the plant that draw up WATER and MINERALS for the plant. Use a BROWN pencil

• Colour in the parts of the plant that make BUDS and SEEDS. Use a RED pencil


SORTING ANIMALS ACTIVITY

Animal Is it a Fish, Amphibian, Reptile,

Bird, Mammal, Insect or other

Why do you think so?

Mullet

Koala

Crocodile

Turtle

Echidna

Snake

Cassowary

Crab


Animal Is it an Amphibian, Reptile, Mammal,

Bird, Insect or other

Why do you think so?

Wombat

Snail

Coral

Barnacle

Cricket

Beetle

Sea Urchin

Cicada


OTHER SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES

COLLECTION OF OBJECTS The following is a list of objects that can be used for the following activities. Objects in the External Features QM Loans kit can be used also.

• tadpoles

• mosquito larvae (wrigglers)

• pets such as guinea pigs, budgerigars etcetera

• silkworms

• stick insects/grasshoppers/beetles/butterflies/moths

• large, shiny leaf

• thick succulent leaf e.g. cactus leaf

• leaf with lots of hairs on it

• piece of granite/basalt/sandstone/conglomerate/pumice

• plastic milk bottle top

• garden snail

• garden lizard or skink

• hair

• paper

• fingernail clippings

• plant in a pot-plant

• lump of coal

• pencil

• apple/orange

• pottery mug

• water

Discuss with students the characteristics of living things such as growing, moving, responding to stimuli (light, heat, food, water, touch), and reproducing.

1. Present students with a collection of objects and ask the students to group the objects into (a) living (b) non-living and never alive (c) non-living but once alive.

2. Ask students to classify the objects in this collection as plant; animal; rock; man-made material.

3. For each organism in the collection

(a) identify its type of body covering; colour; any legs or appendages it has

(b) note any similarities or differences between the objects

(c) identify the habitat in which the organism lives and why it may live there

(d) suggest how the animals move; which would move the fastest; which have a backbone

(e) discuss the organism’s means of survival or defence


4. Spot the Difference Activity. Ask students to list the similarities and differences between

(a) aquatic plants and land plants

(b) aquatic animals and land animals

5. Grouping Activity:

(a) by texture – ask students to use descriptive words as the basis for their grouping

(b) by specific properties – e.g. those with legs and those without; those that are rough, smooth, shiny, feathery, or woolly etcetera; those that float and those that sink

6. ‘What am I?’ Activity. A student tries to identify a specific object in the list by asking questions of which there is only a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ answer. For example, ‘Does my object have legs?’ ‘Scales?’ ‘Two eyes?’

7. Celebrity Heads Activity. Three students sit out at the front of the classroom. The name of an organism from the collection is written on a piece of paper and attached with sticky tape to the blackboard behind the students’ heads so they cannot see the name of their organism. They ask questions of the class to help them to identify the organism but there can only be a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ answer. If their answer is ‘Yes’ they keep on asking questions. If there is a ‘No’ answer, then the next student in the queue gets a chance to ask a question. The winner is the first student who identifies their organism correctly.

8. Teacher Clues Activity. A student thinks of an object, whispers it to the teacher who then gives the class ‘clues’ or properties about the object and the class has to guess. Alternatively the class could ask questions and the teacher can only give ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ answers.

9. Outside Activities.

(a) visit a farm; animal sanctuary; seashore; or freshwater creek to observe and draw a range of animals for classification back at school. Return the animals to their habitats after use

(b) collect insects under stones or the bark of fallen trees in the school grounds

(c) go on a nature walk or visit a botanical gardens to note differences between plants and animals in different habitats

(d) set up a bird feeding station in your school grounds

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