Year 5. Unit 2. Animals: Invertebrates - Insects!

Click on the picture to visit the interactive Insect world! 

Do you want to discover more? 

Visit the BBC website and click on the insect you like the most!

Year 5. Unit 2. Animals: Invertebrates

Now… a little bit of music to sing and dance:

Baby, you're an arthropod!

1. Read again the information presented in the class.

2. Complete the activities on the book (pages 10 and 11, exercises 1 and 2 from both pages).

3. Find a picture of an arthropod (Internet, magazines, drawings…)

4. Write about the characteristics of your arthropod (number of legs, body parts, color, shape…). 

Year 5. Unit 2. Vertebrates: LET'S PLAY!

Click on the picture to play the game about animals characteristics!

Year 5. Unit 2. Animals. Vertebrates: Reptiles, amphibians and fish.

Remember! Click on the pictures to make them bigger 

1. Draw and write a description of a reptile, amphibian or fish. Complete the book page (worksheet).

• Include its body covering and how it moves, breathes and reproduces.

• Remember! Snakes can't walk (they don't have feet), they slither.
• For more information, click here.

Mammals and birds are warm-blooded.

Reptiles, amphibians and fish are cold-blooded.

Year 5. Unit 2. Animals. Vertebrates: Mammals and birds.

Click on the pictures to make them bigger!

1. Draw and write a description of a mammal or bird. Complete the worksheet.

• Include its body covering and how it moves, breathes and reproduces.

Example:

Year 5. Unit 2. Seahorses! (Best presentation - Winner)

The winner of the best Seahorse presentation and description (by popular vote) today was:

Writing by Laura

Year 5. Unit 2. Animals. Seahorses!

 Seahorses

• Seahorses are an unusual type of fish with a head that looks like a horse’s head. 
• They do not have scales and they swim in an upright position. 
• They are very slow swimmers, but they can quickly change colour, which provides camouflage to protect them from predators. 
• What makes seahorses truly unique is their way of reproducing.
• Male seahorses have a pouch where the females deposit the eggs. The males then carry the eggs until they hatch as tiny fully-formed seahorses.

What type of animals are seahorses? 
- They are fish.
What makes them unique?
- Their way of reproducing.
How do they protect themselves from predators?
- Changing colour, through camouflage.
Who carries the eggs?
- Male seahorses.
Personal question: Have you ever seen a seahorse? Where?

 

 

1. Choose one of the seahorses above (see pictures) and draw it.

2. Write a short description of the seahorse. 

e.g. My seahorse is orange. His body is thin and long. He is very small. He doesn't have scales, but he has a curly tail.

Year 5. Unit 1. Living things: The microscope

Cells, as some other living things, are so small that we cannot see them with the naked eye. Howewer, we can observe them through a microscope.
 
A microscope is an instrument with several lenses that make very small objects appear much larger than they really are.

PART 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Giw_EdwOZnM

PART 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k659rtLrhk

Year 5. Unit 1. Living things: Classification. The 5 kingdoms

Living things are classified into groups called kingdoms.

There are five:

Animal - Plant - Fungi - Monera - Protista

Year 5. Unit 1. Living things: What are cells?

Play the presentation to review the information about the cells unit.
Use this information if you need help to finish your work:
- Exercises 2 and 3 (activity book page 4).

Remember!
For next week (October 16th) you need to bring to the classroom:

• 1 picture of a bamboo plant.
• 1 picture of a bamboo plant cell.

(You can draw it if you can't find it or print it).

 

Year 5. Revision. Cartoons. What are they thinking?

Steps:

1. Go to the website: National Geographic Kids
2. Choose 1 picture (cartoon).
3. Complete the dialogue. Be creative!
4. Click on: e-mail this!
5. Write your name and send it to the teacher (write the teacher's name and email - copy from the picture).

HELP!

You can follow the structures: 

SUBJECT + VERB - "Pepito is sleeping". 

SUBJECT + VERB + OBJECT - "I have three cards", "I like the sea" 

SUBJECT + VERB + ADJECTIVE - "You are beautiful"

Welcome to the Science blog!

• If you are from 5º Primaria, go to Year 5.
• If you are from 6º Primaria, go to Year 6.

Any questions, doubts or suggestions... 
Feel free to comment!

Have fun and learn a lot,

Teacher Jessica