Learning and Teaching Activities

(Cognition)

2. Understand that there are different types of vertebrates.

Children will be able to:

1. Memorise key vocabulary.

2. Memorise and use phrases comparing the different types of vertebrates.

3. Talk about different types of vertebrates.

1. Ask pupils to recall the definition of the term "vertebrate". Use a selection of pictures of animals. Ask pupils to pair them. (The selection should include mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians.)

2. Tell pupils that they are going to watch a Watch a PowerPoint presentation about animals.

3. Ask pupils different questions: Do these animals have a backbone? Elicit that they are all vertebrates. Using the pictures as a stimulus, ask pupils to suggest names for each set. Establish through discussion that vertebrates are divided into five groups: fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

4. Pupils then complete Worksheet 2 in which they have to:

- Classify different types of animals.

- Write the names of the different groups of vertebrates.

N.B.Whales and dolphins which are mammals are included.

Worksheet key

Language of learning

1. Key words needed: mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians.

2. Key phrases needed:

- Vertebrates can be divided into...

Language for learning

1. Language

- How to describe animals.

2. Learning how to learn.

- Understanding instructions.

- How to deal with not understanding.

- The language to ask and answer questions.

Language through learning

- Language to carry out worksheet tasks.

Certain mammals, for example the iberian lynx is in danger of extinction.