Animal Adaptations Lesson Plans & Worksheets | Science Writing and Art, Grade 1

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This 8-page pack combines three short lesson plans on animal adaptations with the worksheets that go with them. The first three pages are teacher notes. Each has an objective, a materials list and numbered activities: Lesson 1 introduces adaptations with picture cards and a picture walk, Lesson 2 uses tweezers, spoons and clothespins to model how bird beaks suit different foods, and Lesson 3 has students invent an imaginary animal. The worksheets cover a cut-and-paste sheet matching a zebra, eagle, cheetah and camel to their adaptations, a word search, a bird-to-food matching page, a fill-in-the-blank on beaks, and a "Design your own animal" page with sentence frames. What's Included: • 8-page printable PDF • Three lesson plans with objectives, materials and activities • Five student worksheets, from cut-and-paste to design-your-own-animal Skills Practised: • Understanding that body parts help animals survive • Linking bird beaks to food • Writing with sentence frames and drawing an animal Perfect for: • 1st grade science units on animals and habitats • Combined science and writing lessons • ESL/EFL content-based learning