Reptiles
Topics:
Natural Science
Reptiles are cold blooded vertebrates. They have dry skin covered with scales or body plates. They lay soft-shelled eggs.
Crocodile
Snakes
Lizards
Turtles
Chameleon
Dinosaurs
Gecko
Types of Reptiles
Activities 1: Matching the Reptiles to the scales or body plates to to the correct reptiles.
Activity 2:Make your own snake skin with a snake and wood glue then peel it off to show how they shed their skin.
Life cycle of a reptile:
Most reptile species lay eggs, and will defend their young until they hatch. Once the young reptile is strong enough to find its own food, it will become independent and go off to find a mate. The cycle can then continue as the reptile looks after its own young.
Learners will be given paper and different types of stencils reptiles to draw and then colour
Egg experiment to show how soft their eggs are by using a raw egg a cup and and vinegar after a few days you will see that the hard shell disappears and the egg becomes soft like the reptile eggs.
Making a Turtle with playdough
Technology
Learners will be given Playdough and
will need to create the shell and the body of the turtle
Learners will be asked to bring an old sock and to make a sock snake
sock snake
Social Science
What are reptiles?
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Where can we find Reptiles:
Do reptiles hibernate in winter?
Why were dinosaurs extinct?
Scientist thinks that there was a large asteroid that hit
the planet and the big dinosaurs had no
place to hide like some of the smaller reptiles were able to survive
Activity: In the sand pit we will be hiding dinosaurs and bones and get the kids to go investigate and look for the bones and dinosaur remaining's with a magnified glass and a paint brush
Reptiles are found all over the world, except in very cold areas.
The greatest number and variety are in the hot, humid tropics. Snakes and lizards live in many different kinds of places.
They can live on land, in trees, in underground tunnels, or in water.
Activity: Sensory bin with different types of animals and sand and water.
Reptiles are not true hibernators; instead, they experience brumation. This means they do not remain completely dormant the entire winter. Their metabolism and heart rate slow, but they remain mostly conscious, and even active
Activity: with shaving cream and cold water write a S for snake in the water with shaving cream and see how it disappears remember snakes don't like cold so that's what we are showing you.