Second level 2-01a
Self-led activities Animals
1. Define and explain vertebrates and invertebrates with your group. Explain that invertebrates/mini- beasts are very diverse. Go on a mini-beast hunt and classify animals based on their number of legs. Ask the group to come up with one other way of classifying animals e.g. if it can fly, number of body parts, if it has a shell. Time: 30mins.
2. In groups of four to six ask the children to choose a mini-beast. Ask each group to create and move like their mini-beast with their bodies. Get the other groups to guess what they are. Time: 20mins.
3. Discuss the importance of mini-beasts with your group and reinforce classification based on features. Time: 10mins.
Plants
1. With your group define vascular (pipe-like tissue that moves water and nutrients through plants, similar to veins in animals) and non-vascular (this pipe-like tissue is not present) systems. Look for vascular (trees and flowering plants) and non-vascular (mosses and ferns) plants and their seeds/ spores. Discuss seed/spore dispersal methods. Time: 30mins.
2. Discuss flowering and non-flowering plants with your group. Explain the benefits of flowering plants to pollination. Play the pollination relay game. Divide your group into two teams; each team has a pipette and jar (place the jar on top of a picture of a bee hive). Set out 12 pictures of flowers across an open flat area. Put coloured liquid (such as diluting juice) into six cups and in another six put a different coloured juice. Make sure the total amount of each coloured liquid is the same. The idea of the game is that the children are bees and have to collect their designated coloured nectar from the cups on top of the flower pictures using the pipette and bring it back to their hive. It is a relay race so decide upon a suitable amount of time dependant on how much liquid is in the cups and making sure that every child gets a couple of shots. The winning team is the one with the most nectar in their hive when time is up. At the end of the game highlight that pollination is a by-product of collecting nectar. Time: 20mins.
3. Review learning and discuss differences in plants over evolutionary timescales. Using picture cards of vascular and non-vascular plants get the children to place the cards on an evolutionary time line (rope/string/wool). Time: 20mins.
Equipment: • Animals - bug pots, trays, magnifying glasses and bug ID sheets. • Plants - pictures of: vascular system, seed dispersal methods, the evolution of plants, pollination and bee hives. Picture cards of vascular, non-vascular and flowering plants. Two jars, two pipettes, plastic cups, laminated flowers and two types of coloured water. Rope, string or wool.
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