1st GRADE - Second Trimester Project

I learn, care and respect animals

Expected Learning Outcomes
Science English
1. Recognizes the physical 1. Connects with prompting and
characteristics that define diverse support, illustrations with the text
living beings, including inherited in which they appear, in order to
and non- inherited traits, and understand it.
identifies the basic needs they must 2. Becomes aware of some simple
satisfy in order to survive within conventions of standard English
their environment. grammar and usage when writing
or speaking.

Indicators
Science English
1. Lists several aspects of animals 1. Creates drawings and visual aids,
including physical characteristics of with guidance about what he or she
aquatic and terrestrial species, their understood of a text.
development, care, life cycles, and 2. Recognizes with prompting proper
dangerous species. and common naming words, action
2. Recognizes that many of the words, pronouns, adjectives,
characteristics of an organism are frequently used adverbs, articles,
inherited from their parents, and conjunctions and prepositions in a
other characteristics are obtained sentence.
from its interactions with the 3. Recognizes simple sentence parts
environment. of a sentence (subject or naming
3. Defines with guidance and support, part and predicate or action part) in
the concepts of habitats and newspaper and magazines.
ecosystem.
4. Recognizes that the living
environment is composed of
relationship between organisms and
the life cycles that occur.

Recognize that animals are living beings.

- Differentiate animals according to where they live.
- Understand the differences between domestic and wild animals.
- Identify the way animals move.
- Distinguish the different ways of being born of animals.
- Temporarily order a sequence of the birth and growth of puppies.

Relate adult animals with their young.

- Sort animals according to their diet.
- Identify the food that some animals eat.
- Know some tasks that are carried out in a farm.
- Discriminate animals whose habitat is water.
- Recognize the trades related to animals.
- Promote respect for all living beings.
- Acquire basic hygiene habits when caring for animals.
- Recognize different establishments where you can buy a pet.
- Build simple games for the acquisition of knowledge

Main affirmation of knowledge to share with students

1.-Animals are living beings.
2.-They move or move in different ways.
3.-Mammalian animals have hair, they are born from the belly of their mother and they
nurse.
4.-The birds have beaks, wings and feathers. They are born of eggs. 5.-The reptiles have
scales, they walk and crawl. They are born of eggs.
6.-Domestic animals live at home and keep us company.
7.-Farm animals provide us with food.
8.-We can see wild animals in the jungle, in circuses, safaris and zoos. 9.-Animals are born,
grow reproduce and die.
10.-The feeding of the animals is varied; they can be carnivores, herbivores or omnivores.
11.-The veterinarians are people in charge of curing the animals.
12.-There are animals in danger of extinction.
13.- It is necessary to maintain proper hygiene habits when caring for animals.
14.-Having a pet means accepting a commitment to care. We must feed, educate, walk, love
and respect.

Goals.
- Observation of multiple life forms. Identification of differences between living beings and
inert objects.
- Direct and indirect observation of animals and plants. Classification according to
observable elements, identification and denomination.
- Association of physical features and behavioral patterns of plants and animals with the
environments in which they live (camouflage, color change, coat thickness, etc.)
- The relationships between humans, plants and animals.
- Development of habits of care and respect for living beings.
- Oral communication of the experiences, based on images and brief written texts.
-This criterion tries to evaluate the capacity to establish elementary criteria of classification
(size, color, form of move) and identify animals and plants because they belong to one of
the established groups.

Activities
1.- On the bottom of the sea. The corner of the aquatic environment is elaborated inside the
classroom to investigate about the dolphin. A mailbox is installed in the school hall to leave
images, curiosities,
questions ... of said animal; can participate parents, teachers, other colleagues ...

2.- "The great day of the mascots". The students bring photographs and elaborate, with the
collaboration of their families, a mural with all the information about their pets.

3- Design. They create new animals; to which they must name.

4- Shadows and shadows of animals. A Power Point is projected that shows the children /
shadows, sounds ... of different animals. It is presented on the digital board of the library
and the pupils use in pointer to know the solutions.

5- Animal circuit. Characterized animals mimic the movements of some in the schoolyard.

6- Do you like comics? They make a comic based on several selected vignettes.

7- Do you know how to care for an animal? Based on the responses of the students, they
must discriminate between right and wrong actions when caring for animals.