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Contents
Teacher Guide
Student Workbook
Animal Fact Sheets
Presentation Sample File
Review Questions
Skill Reviews
Extension Activities
TechnoAnimal Internet Favorites
Marking Sheet
Summary of Skills
Parent Letter
Certificate

Samples
Animal Fact Sheet
Paint Assignment
Student Presentation

TechnoAnimal Details

Animal Lesson Plans for Primary Students
TechnoAnimal Icon Create a multimedia report about an animal using step by step PowerPoint lesson plans. Students research an animal and design slides about habitat, appearance, food, young, and threats.

Session 1 Animal Facts

The animal lesson plans in TechnoAnimal integrate computer skills with Science as students learn about:

  • Life Cycles
  • Classification
  • Adaptation
  • Environment
  • Endangered Species
 TECHNOANIMAL: Make a slide show about an animal using Microsoft PowerPoint.

To start, students are introduced to animal classes by viewing colorful examples and reading characteristics that define each class. They complete a worksheet to confirm their understanding.

Animal Lesson Plans for Elementary Students - Workbook Reptile Fact Sheet. Animal Lesson Plans for Elementary Students - Workbook Mammal Fact Sheet. Animal Lesson Plans for Elementary Students - Workbook Insect Fact Sheet.

Next, students study a completed slide show, provided with the TechnoAnimal resources, about polar bears and answer questions about the multimedia report.

Primary students begin preparation for their own animal report. Using the provided Animal Fact Sheets, students complete a research planner that organizes facts such as food, appearance, and habitat. Students can choose from a range of animals including lion, penguin, and whales. Detailed lesson plans are also included to explain how to use the Internet to save a picture of the animal and a map of where they live.

Primary Animal Lesson Plans - Sample Animal Fact Sheet
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Session 2 Paint Your Animal
Animal Lesson Plans - View a sample assignment for primary students.
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 To include an original picture of the animal in the PowerPoint presentation, students learn how to use Microsoft Paint. After being introduced to the program and its tools, students draw a picture of the animal. Questions included with the animal lesson plans, encourage primary students to think critically about the habitat and to create an accurate representation of the creature.

Session 3 Animal Habitat

All preparation is now complete and students have gathered all the resources needed to start the PowerPoint presentation. Detailed lesson plans designed for beginners, explain how to create a Title slide and Habitat slide using simple language:

  • choose a slide layout
  • add text
  • apply a design theme
  • insert a saved map
  • insert a saved picture
  • resize a picture
 Animal Lesson Plans - Sample Primary Student Presentation


PRIMARY CATEGORY

Learning Objectives
  • create a slide show about an animal
  • classify animals
  • research animal facts using various resources
  • use the Internet to find a picture and a map
  • draw a picture of an animal using Microsoft Paint
  • organize text, images, and clip art on slides
  • apply a theme to a PowerPoint presentation
  • apply transition effects to a presentation
  • proofread and edit using Spell Check
  • set timing and set a show to run automatically

Session 4 Animal Appearance and Food

Students continue to follow step by step instructions to make the next two slides. The Appearance slide contains the picture that the students made in Paint.

Primary students learn how to insert a picture onto a slide. Next, they write descriptive facts about the animal, with the focus placed on the connection between the appearance of the animal and how these qualities help it survive.

 Primary Animal Lesson Plans - Primary students learn how to make a PowerPoint presentation about an endangered species.
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The Food slide contains written facts about what the animal eats. In this activity, students learn the new skill of searching for and inserting clip art.

Session 5 Animal Young and Threats

The final two slides of the six slide report are completed in this session. On the Baby slide, primary students write their research about the animal’s young, prompted by leading questions. They insert the saved picture from the first session. Students review and practice learned PowerPoint skills to create the Threats slide.

Session 6 Animal Show

The finishing touches are put on the animal presentation. PowerPoint lesson plans explain how to:

  • spell check
  • apply and format transitions
  • set the show to play automatically
The culminating activity of the TechnoAnimal project is the sharing of completed projects. The teacher can choose from a variety of sharing formats outlined in the teacher guide.

TechnoAnimal Assessment Tools
Included with the resources are assessment tools including:
  • review questions
  • skill reviews
  • summary of skills checklist
  • animal report marking sheet
 Marking sheet for an animal report created using PowerPoint.
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Optional Animal Lesson Plans

Included with TechnoKids animal lesson plans are fun and challenging ideas for further enrichment:

  • Circle the Animal Class: Practice classification.
  • Which One Does Not Belong? Find the intruder.
  • Migration: Learn about seasonal animal movements.
  • Butterfly Life Cycle: Sequence the stages correctly.
  • Match the Baby: Complete a matching activity.
  • Animal Camouflage: Edit the presentation.

Testimonials

Our Grade 2 class just completed the TechnoAnimal unit. I truly appreciated the step-by-step instructions on how to use PowerPoint. The kids loved the unit. They were so excited to learn how to make a PowerPoint presentation and were very pleased to show their work to their parents. I received great feedback from parents on how impressed they were about their child’s computer progress. Great unit! Thank you, TechnoKids!

B. Panza, John Knox Christian School, Oakville, ON, Canada

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