A Pet Bird | Animal Body Parts and Traits

Puzzled about how to teach inherited traits for the science standards? Add this bird emergent reader to your pet unit. Introduce the importance of inherited traits and external body parts of animals with this nonfiction book and follow it up with a writing activity. Prepare your students to tackle the 1st grade Next Generation Science Standard: Structure and Function, as you build upon their knowledge of birds. Use as an introduction lesson about pets.

This resource contains everything needed for the lesson.

★☆bird vocabulary card with name, photo, and a drawing

★☆a bird drawing with labeled traits/external parts: beak, wing, feathers, feet, and tail Perfect for teaching about labels in nonfiction books.

★☆the book: A Pet

• with predictable text
• contains a reflection page for students to share if they would like or would not like to have a pet bird
• drawings that students can color
• room to write the body part and draw an arrow to label the bird drawings

★☆writing page "I like" (a handwriting lines version and a plain line version) Students will write about a body part as a detail.

★☆"Teacher Tip" pages with prep, sequence of activities, and build vocabulary suggestions.

All organisms have inherited external parts. Yet they might be used in different ways. The nonfiction emergent reader text will help students grow their vocabulary of a bird's external body parts. Students can color the drawings and label one body part on each page of the book. A full page photo of a pet bird is provided to support discussion and can be used for display. Two writing pages are included for you to select handwriting guide lines or plain lines.

Grab Structure and Function of Pets.

Build your unit about pets. This resource also focuses on pets and their body parts. The pair complement each other to develop students' kInowledge of pets and their parts/traits.

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If you teach First Grade, your students need to learn about external body parts of animals for their science lessons. I bet they also need more practice with writing. Check these skills/standards off your list of things to do with this science resource.

This year, enjoy teaching science.

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