FOURTH ACTIVITY

REPRODUCTION

PRE-TASK

The teacher with his students makes a review of all the vocabulary that they have learned in previous activities:

What kinds of animals you know?

Where can they live?

What food can they eat?

Then, they start to talk about types of sexual reproduction of the animals that they studied after. These types of animals are mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fishes and birds.

This activity lasts 15 minutes approximately.

TASK-PREPARATION

Teacher asks her pupils like reproduces the animals of the story. Later she introduces the concepts: oviparous and viviparous with photographies.. Oviparous animals are formed and developed within an egg that has fertilized the male of the species and has been released by the female. Viviparous are the animals that develop inside the mother abdomen. Also, the teacher asks how the dolphins are reproduced and a debate is created.
This activity lasts 30 minutes approximately.

TASK-REALIZATION

Teacher shows photographies of different animals and they classify them all together in viviparous and oviparous. They classify other animals too in groups of pupils. Later the teacher solves doubts.

POST-TASK

The groups show the classification that they done and comment it all together. Finally, the teacher and pupils do a final comment about everything that they have learned during this didactic unit.