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Title: We’re Bugged
Objective or Purpose: To learn animals without backbones are achordata, and are one of the largest of the kingdom animalia.
Materials: Student journal and paper and pencils.
Activities: Pre-class work, Draw animals without backbones.
Lesson Design Teacher Procedure Student Activities
Anticipatory Set
Journal writing and review comments, questions, and discussions.
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Journal activity – What holds an animal’s shape without a backbone? Can you give an example of an animal that does not have to hold its shape? Are these animals land or water creatures?
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Listen, and start your journal activity immediately. This activity should be answered completely, given a lot of thought, and must be brought to a conclusion in 6 minutes.
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Input and Modeling
Introduce the "stuff needed for success", and show what they need to know.
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Keywords: insects, octopus, jelly-fish, crabs, snails, clams, exoskeleton, arachnids, spiders, lobsters, crayfish, slugs, worms, nematodes, flies, silverfish, scorpions, bees, moths, butterflies, larvae, metamorphosis, wings, head, thorax, abdomen.
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Listen, see, and take notes.
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Guided Practice
Show-em how it’s done.
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Have students take a blank piece of paper, and draw a rendition of an insect, and any other animals that do not have backbones. Let them know that this is the phylum acordata.
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Hear, see, do – The students are to start their word find activity and complete it before the end of the period.
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Closure
Comparisons and wrap-ups
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In order to keep track of all of the world’s creatures, we have to develop a system of naming, or nomenclature.
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Listen to the summary of the day’s class, and note what homework is posted for the next class period.
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Independent Practice: Bring in any pictures that can show animals with an obvious backbone, and those without.
Extension to the lesson: Who was Charles Darwin? Where are the Galapagos Islands? What is natural selection? Have you ever heard the term, the law of the jungle?
Duration of the lesson: Approximately 49 minutes.
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