NATURAL SCIENCE - YEAR 4 - UNIT: VERTEBRATES AND INVERTEBRATES - LESSON: INVERTEBRATES - CNIDARIANS-WORMS-ECHINODERMS

 NATURAL SCIENCE - YEAR 4

UNIT: VERTEBRATES AND INVERTEBRATES

LESSON - INVERTEBRATES: CNIDARIANS-WORMS-ECHINODERMS

We are going to start our lesson doing a game to test your attention... How many animals do you see in this next picture that ARE NOT vertebrates?

How do we call these animals?

... Yes, we call them invertebrates... Invertebrates do not have bones or a backbone... Let's learn a song about them:

Today we are going to learn about the most important characteristics that invertebrates have. We are also going to learn about three groups of invertebrates: Cnidarians, worms and echinoderms. In our next class we will learn about the other three groups.

This video tells us about the most important characteristics that invertebrates have:

And... this is our lesson's summary:

If you click on this link you will get to a GLOSSARY in which you can find the meaning of the words in BLACK

NOW... SOME GAMES TO PRACTICE WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED ON THIS LESSON:

GAME - FIND THE INVERTEBRATES

GAME - HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT INVERTEBRATES?

GAME - CNIDARIANS

GAME - TRUE OR FALSE - ABOUT WORMS

GAME - ECHINODERMS - CLASSIFY THE CHARACTERISTICS