Lesson 1: Animals
UNIT 6: Life Science, Part 2
Ask several students to place the animals from that circle in a line above or
beside the sticky note.
Repeat until all of the animals are represented in the graph.
Sample Graph
8 spider, octopus
6 butterflies, beetles, other insects
4 dog, cat, elephant, lion, cow, frog
2 flamingo, peacock, chicken, duck, human
0 whale, shark, fish
Facilitation Questions
Do we have more animals with four legs or animals with two legs? Answers will
vary depending on the animals used for the lesson.
Do all animals with two legs look the same? No, they might be different colors and
different sizes.
How are
they different? Answers will vary depending on the animals being
compared.
How are
the legs of a/an _________and a/an _________different? Answers will
vary depending on the animals being compared.
Teacher Instruction
Ask: What are an animal’s limbs? An animal’s arms, legs, wings, fins, or flippers
are limbs.
Teacher Note Teacher Note
For this lesson, limbs are arms, fins,
flippers, legs, and bird wings. When
counting fish and shark fins, you may
find a shark or fish with a different
number of fins than shown on the
graph, graph accordingly.
