LESSON

PLAN LESSON: Animal adaptations and survival

Teacher: Esra Al Ameri Subject: Science

Grade: 4 Unit: 4 Date: November12, 2019

SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING

Students will be able to:

• Students will be able to create a crazy bird that adapts to its crazy jungle

Link to prior learning: students learned the different types of animal adaptation

21st Century Skills: Students will be able to enhance the following skills: Students will be able to enhance
Communication and collaboration by working together and collaborating in doing the activities right.
Also, there will be communicating between them while doing the activity together which will build
more confident for the students to communicate with the class. Students will use critical thinking
while solving the activities. Students will use their creativity skills while making the poster. Media
literacy which is the videos and presentation I will be using to teach the students.
Key vocabulary: Adaptation, Camouflage, Mimicry, Physical adaptation, behavioural adaptation

Common misconceptions for learners: Ways of identifying and addressing these misconceptions:

• Students might get confused • Teacher will provide for the students more pictures to tell
between physical and them the differences between the types of adaptation
behavioural adaptation or
mimicry and camouflage

Resources/equipment needed:

• A3 coloured papers for the students to display the bird

• Coloured play dough for the students to create the bird

 UNIT: LESSON: TASKS/ACTIVITIES

Resources & Time Starter (5 minutes)

Teacher Will: Students Will:

Video • Teacher will start the lesson • Students will sit on the carpet,
by greeting the students and focusing on the board
telling them what they know • Students will answer questions
about adaptation to refresh And discuss with the teacher
their memories about the
lesson
• Teacher will ask questions
What do you know about
adaptation?
Why do you think animals adapt
to their environment?

• Teacher will show a video
about some animals and how
they adapt

• Discuss with students what
they learned about animal
adaptations

Resources & Time Main activities (30 minutes)

Teacher Will: Students Will:

• While the students are on the
Teacher - students carpet the teacher will ask • Students will answer the teachers
together them how they will create their questions
crazy bird
(5 minutes) Tr: how many eyes could your crazy • Students must listen to the
bird have? students instructions to work on
Tr: how many wings could your crazy the activities together
bird have?
• Teacher will explain to the
students the activity they will
do and what each group
challenge is


Emerging level • Teacher will start with this • Students will go to their tables
groups instructions
Students together • They will have a look at the
• This activity will be group work materials they have
(30 min)
• Teacher will tell the students • Students will start thinking about
that they have some materials how their crazy bird will look like
that they must use to create
the crazy bird and jungle • Students will start working on the
bird together
• Teacher will tell students that
they must write their names on • By working together students will
the paper develop their communications skill
to get confidents enough to speak
• Teacher will explain to the to the whole group
students that they will use the
colored papers as a display to • Students will answer the teacher’s
put the crazy bird on it questions

• She will also tell them that they • Students will write the answers of
could use any color and make it the teacher’s challenge
crazy enough to adapt to the

• Teacher will tell the students
after they finish creating the
bird they will write what this
bird have that makes him crazy
enough to live in the crazy
jungle

• Teacher will walk around the
students with a checklist

• She will ask the students some
questions while walking around
the group to check their
understandings
Tr: why do you think this bird have 3
eyes?
Tr: do you think this bird will survive in
the crazy jungle?

Developing level • Teacher will start with this • Students will go to their tables
groups instructions
Students together • They will have a look at the
• This activity will be group work materials they have
(30 min)


• Teacher will tell the students
that they have some materials
• Students will start thinking
that they must use to create about how their crazy bird will
the crazy bird and jungle look like

• Teacher will tell students that • Students will start working on
they must write their names on the bird together
the paper
 • By working together students
• Teacher will explain to the will develop their
students that they will use the communications skill to get
colored papers as a display to confidents enough to speak to
put the crazy bird on it
the whole group


• She will also tell them that they
could use any color and make it • Students will answer the
crazy enough to adapt to the teacher’s questions

• For this group teacher will tell • Students will write the answers
them that they must write why of the teacher’s challenge
do you think this bird needs to
be crazy enough to adapt in this
jungle

• Teacher will walk around the
students with a checklist

• She will ask the students some
questions while walking around
the group to check their
understandings

Master level • Teacher will start with this • Students will go to their tables
groups instructions
Students together • They will have a look at the
• This activity will be group work materials they have
(30min)

• Teacher will tell the students • Students will start thinking about
that they have some materials how their crazy bird will look like
that they must use to create
the crazy bird and jungle • Students will start working on the
bird together
• Teacher will tell students that
they must write their names on • By working together students will
the paper develop their communications skill
to get confidents enough to speak
• Teacher will explain to the to the whole group
students that they will use the
colored papers as a display to • Students will answer the teacher’s
put the crazy bird on it questions

• She will also tell them that they • Students will write the answers of
could use any color and make it the teacher’s challenge
crazy enough to adapt to the

• Teacher will tell this group that
they must write why is this bird
able to adapt in this jungle

 • Teacher will walk around the
students with a checklist

• She will ask the students some
questions while walking around
the group to check their
understandings

Resources Plenary (5 minutes)

Teacher Will: Students Will

• Teacher will use “1,2,3…look at • Students will leave the activities
me” strategy to get the
students attention • Students will clean up their tables
• Teacher will tell the students and sit down quietly
that she will set the timer for 1
minutes and the must clean up • Students will stand up with their
their tables groups to talk about their crazy
• Teacher will recap the lesson bird and why is this jungle is the
with the students perfect place for it
• Teacher will ask each table to
get up and talk about their bird
Homework

Learning styles catered for in the main activities (✓):

Visual Auditory Read/Write Kinaesthetic

Assessment for learning opportunities (✓):

Observation Student self-assessment Oral questioning Peer assessment

Teacher will walk around Think, pair share. students will work together
the classroom to observe Teacher will ask on their activities
the students while working students questions in
on the activities why the starter, then she
asking them some will give them five
questions seconds to think, five
seconds to share it
with the person next
to them after that
they will share it with
the whole class

Quiz Student presentation Written work and Verbal feedback

feedback
After the students finish Teacher will walk around the
their poster, they will class with a checklist, she will
show it to the whole ask the students some
class and then they will
 display it on the questions about the activities
achievement table in the to see if they understand
back of the class for the

guests to look at