A fun reading lesson for grade 5 students that explores animal adaptations. This lesson uses a provocation to create curiosity and excitement. Students will engage in class discussions to share their prior knowledge and then apply new knowledge in the form of a guessing game.

8 Lessons

Grade: 5-6

Animal Adaptations

This unit explores the fascinating, structural adaptations of animals. This unit uses a wide range of informative texts to help students develop their understanding of how adaptations help animals survive. Students will engage in skills such as questioning, research and drawing, writing explanations and designing and creating their own animals. These lessons can also be completed as a stand alone lesson and with another text of choice.

A fun reading lesson for grade 5 students that explores animal adaptations. This lesson uses a provocation to create curiosity and excitement. Students will engage in class discussions to share their prior knowledge and then apply new knowledge in the form of a guessing game.

8 Lessons

Grade: 5-6

Animal Adaptations

This unit explores the fascinating, structural adaptations of animals. This unit uses a wide range of informative texts to help students develop their understanding of how adaptations help animals survive. Students will engage in skills such as questioning, research and drawing, writing explanations and designing and creating their own animals. These lessons can also be completed as a stand alone lesson and with another text of choice.

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Essential Question/s

What are structural adaptations and how do they help animals survive?

General Capabilities

Literacy
ICT
Critical and Creative thinking

Lessons

8 Lessons

Lesson 1

A fun reading lesson for grade 5 students that explores animal adaptations. This lesson uses a provocation to create curiosity and excitement. Students will engage in class discussions to share their prior knowledge and then apply new knowledge in the form of a guessing game.

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Reading | Writing

Animal Adaptations - Provocation

Grades: 5-6

Activate prior knowledge about a specific topic.

Lesson 2

A fun reading lesson for grade 5 students that explores animal adaptations. This lesson uses the classic picture book ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ by Maurice Sendak.

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Reading | Writing

Animal Adaptations - Where The Wild Things Are

Grades: 5-6

Explore scientific concepts through picture books.

Lesson 3

A fun reading lesson for grade 5 students that explores animal adaptations. This lesson uses a range of information texts to teach students about the structural adaptations of a wide variety of animals.

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Reading | Writing

Animal Adaptations - Zoom In

Grades: 5-6

Create detailed illustrations of animals’ structural adaptations and explain their function.

Lesson 4

A fun reading lesson for grade 5 students that explores animal adaptations. This lesson focuses on the structural adaptations of Australian animals.

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Reading | Writing

Animal Adaptations - Australian Animals

Grades: 5-6

Research facts about an Australian animal’s specific adaptations.

Lesson 5

A fun reading lesson for grade 5 students that explores animal adaptations. This lesson focuses on fish where students use information texts to research and then design and create their own fish using playdough.

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Reading | Writing

Animal Adaptations - Fantastic Fish

Grades: 5-6

Design and create a fish with suitable structural adaptations.

Lesson 6

A fun reading lesson for grade 5 students that explores animal adaptations. This lesson focuses on the structural adaptations of bird beaks.

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Reading | Writing

Animal Adaptations - Bird Beaks

Grades: 5-6

Create a photo story to share information about the structural adaptations of bird beaks.

Lesson 7

A fun reading lesson for grade 5 students that explores animal adaptations. This lesson focuses on the structural adaptations of Australian animals.

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Reading | Writing

Animal Adaptations - Creating A Podcast

Grades: 5-6

Create a podcast to teach others about a particular topic.

Lesson 8

A fun reading lesson for grade 5 students that explores animal adaptations. This lesson allows students to apply their knowledge and creativity to invent a new animal with adaptations that are suitable.

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Reading | Writing

Animal Adaptations - Portmanteau Animals

Grades: 5-6

Apply knowledge of animal adaptations to create a new animal.

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