How do some animal mothers locate their babies?
Download and reference First Grade: Exploring Missouri teacher guide pages 192-199 and student guide pages 146-151 for full lesson plan.
List of Materials
- Create a classroom set of rattling Sound Makers. To make the containers, you will need 30 containers, such as: plastic Easter eggs, film canisters, or clean pill bottles.
- Sound Makers can include but are not limited to (Teacher Note: The goal is to gather nearby materials that will create different pitches and sounds):
- Dry beans
- Paper clips
- Pennies
- Cotton balls
- Sand or coffee grounds
- Water (if container is watertight)
- Eraser
- Rubber bands
- Sugar packets
- Crayons
- Marker lids
- Crumpled paper
- Pencil sharpener shavings
- Each Sound Maker will have another matching container that will produce the same sound.
Estimated Time
2 hours
- Engage: 15 minutes
- Explore: 30 minutes
- Explain: 30 minutes
- Elaborate: 30 minutes
- Evaluate: 15 minutes
Lesson Extensions
Cross-Curricular Extensions
English Language Arts
Make an acrostic poem of their favorite plant or animal and in the poem, describe how it changes as it grows.
Arts/English
Make a comic book about a series of baby animals growing up in a Missouri habitat. How do they find their parents when they are lost?
Science
Distribute wildflower seeds and a small cup of soil to each student. Give them time to plant and water their seed and put cup onto a windowsill. Document the growth every day in a nature journal from seed to first leaves. What changes did they see?
Standards
Topic
Variation of Traits
Next Generation Science Standard
Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI)
Science and Engineering Practices (SEP)
Crosscutting Concepts (CCC)