Grade 5 NST (Term1): Animal Skeletons AND Skeletons as Structures
R33.35
Resource Description
This bundle consists of a POWERPOINT PRESENTATION of 29 slides, and a five page worksheet, with the answers to the worksheet being provided in a second PowerPoint presentation.
The main presentation covers content including skeletons and shells as structures, the difference between vertebrates and invertebrates, the role played by muscles, tendons, bone and joints, the functions of different skeletal parts, and creatures that have exoskeletons. Different animal skeletons (snake, tortoise and frog) are illustrated, and their specialised features and functions explained.
The PowerPoint presentation concludes with a worksheet which gives learners the information they need to become a palaeontologist. They are shown a fossil frog bone, and given the information they need to make inferences about how the animal moved and behaved when it was alive. The five page worksheet includes information on the skeleton, joints, and modern frog bones, which the learner then compares to the images of the fossil, records their observations, then makes inferences about what the differences between the fossil and modern frog bone mean.