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My pet is happy and healthy!

Science Year 1
This unit is part of Year 1 Science Our Pets

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Objectives

Discuss what pets like and what you need to do to keep them happy and healthy. Think about what sort of care the home-made pets might need. Decide how you can keep your pets happy and healthy.

Science Objectives
i) Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
ii) Describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including pets).

Working Scientifically

  1. Identify and classify.

Other Curriculum Areas

Design and Technology

  • Make: Select from and use a wide range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their characteristics.

Extended Writing Opportunities
Labels, lists and signs: Make a list of all of the things you need and the things you have to do, in order to look after a particular pet.
Information text: Explain to a new owner how they should look after their new pet.

You Will Need

Provided Resources

  • Home-made pet ideas resource

Additional Resources

  • Pet Detective bag (containing a few things a pet might need, e.g. lead, collar, bone, dog bowl, brush)
  • Materials for pet-making (pebbles, paint, wool, tubes, furry material, pipe cleaners, felt, bottle tops, tissue paper, pom-poms, egg boxes, etc.)
  • Glue
  • Tape

Weblinks
RSPCA: What do pets need? from www.YouTube.com
BBC Bitesize: Looking after Pets from www.bbc.co.uk

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Understand that there are common features in animals that make good pets.
  • Consider what is involved in keeping a real pet happy and healthy.
  • Imagine what sort of care and environment their home-made pet might like the most, by considering its needs and features.
  • Draw up a list: 'Looking after my Pet' and talk about their pet, so as to demonstrate their understanding of what makes an animal happy and healthy.

Activities

  1. Consider what is involved in keeping a real pet happy and healthy.
  2. Imagine what sort of care and environment their home-made pet might like the most, based on its features.
  3. Draw up a list: 'Looking after my Pet'.
  4. Make a pet based on their design.

Investigation - exploring
Consider what is involved in keeping a real pet happy and healthy.
Observe different pets in the classroom.
Study their similarities and differences and what features they have in common that make them good pets.

Vocabulary
Birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, invertebrates, group, classify, compare, similarities, differences

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