MOOC THE GOAL MINDED TEACHER : CHALLENGES TO TRANSFORM STUDENTS LEARNING (post 2)

Mission Student Challenge: LEARNING TO CATEGORIZE ANIMALS

Mission Description: The pupils in year 3 will need in order to accomplish this mission

Mission Overview/Steps:In An A4

1.-  Find the scientific name of the animal chosen

2.- Categorize the animal as type of invertebrate/ invertebrate animal kingdom living thing

3.- Prvide some characteristics of that animal (2 or 3)

4.- Show us a photo of the animal or a link to a 1 minute youtube video

5.- By doing this, they Will prove to us that they can be good scientists

Objectives:

The pupil can classify animals and categorize them.

The pupil recognizes specific characteristics for different animals (ie insects have six legs only)

The pupils widens his/her knowledge of animals

Purpose:

By following this mission, the students learn to enrich their own personal knowledge, their peers’ and the rest of the school as they will do a short exhibition of their findings to year 1.

Recommended Tools and Resources:

There is a template of the google doc to use for the A4 animal categorization.

The following webs

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/science/ 

Initially they only had the instructions in their blog of what they had to do in an A4 for their classmates. 

If you follow all the steps indicated for your homework and your presentation you will earn the wild roar badge.

I hope you like it. My students got it this morning! They loved the badge. I used Credly to design the badge.