Provincial Assessment

Grade 5

Term 1 Practical

Life and Living & Structures

Scientific Practical

Describing how different vertebrate animals move.

Individual formal class assessment.

Mark = 20

Duration 3-4 periods

Specific Aim 1: Doing Science and Technology

Specific Aim 2: Understanding and connecting ideas

Process Skills: 1. Recall information (from lessons previously taught)

2. Research by means of accessing information from a variety of sources.

3. Raising questions (this might happen when learners have different

answers based on the types of animals they experienced.) The learners
will write their down their questions, teacher guides the learner to
answer the questions)

4. Recording information (answering questions)

5. Communication (translating pictures into words and sequencing

pictures)

Teacher responsibility

Materials

• The teacher will collect skeletons and pictures of different animal skeletons.
• The teacher can show videos of movement of different animals.
• The teacher can also use kinesthetics to show different movements of the body
• The lesson integrates Life Skills, English and NSTECH

Method

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 1. The teacher:
will explain to learner the expectations of the practical.
will make resources for the learners to use.

2. The learner:

work within the time frames given

interact responsibly with the resources

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Term 1 Practical: Describing how different vertebrate animals move

School Name ………………………………………………………..

Name: …………………………………………………………..

Grade: …………………………………………

Day 1

Learner Activity

Visit your school library to research the movement of different vertebrate animals.

Think carefully before you answer and complete the table below. You could use the words in
the word-bank below to help you. Sometimes you could use more than one word.

Crawls Can slithers Sometimes Walks Jumps Swims Flies Runs Dives
not

Vertebrate animal How does the animal How does the animal How does the animal
move on land? move in air? move in water

Frog

Fish

Snake

Bird

Human
½ mark (7 ½)

Where does these animals spend most of their time?

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 Animal Where does it spend most of its time? What body parts does it use to move
Frog
Fish
Snake
Bird
Human
½ mark (6)

Match the animal in column 1 to the animal track in column 2. Write the correct matching
alphabet in column 3.

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3

Animal Track
1. Frog 1 ………

A
2. Snake 2 ……..
B
3. Bird 3 …….

C
4. Human 4 ………

D
5. Why do fish not have tracks?
1 mark (5)

Day 2

Today you are going to show your teacher how different animals move.

No Yes
Teacher evaluation
1 Can the learner demonstrate how a frog
moves by jumping?
2 Can the learner demonstrate how a bird
moves by flapping its wings and hopping
on the floor?
3 Can the learner demonstrate how a
human move by jumping and walking?
(1. ½)

Memorandum

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 Assessment

Grade 5

Term 1 Practical

Life and Living & Structures

Visit your school library to research the movement of different vertebrate animals.

Think carefully before you answer and complete the table below. You could use the words in
the word-bank below to help you. Sometimes you could use more than one word.

Crawls Can slithers Sometimes Walks Jumps Swims Flies Runs Dives
not
Learners answers may differ, it can be accepted if they support their answers

Vertebrate animal How does the animal How does the animal How does the animal
move on land? move in air? move in water
Jumps jumps swims

Frog
cannot flies swims

Fish
Slithers jumps swim

Snake
jumps and walks flies Dives and swims

Bird
crawls, jumps and cannot swims
walks

Human
½ mark (7 ½)

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Where does these animals spend most of their time?

Animal Where does it spend most of its time? What body parts does it use to move
Frog Land √and water√ Hind and front limbs
Fish Water Fins
Snake Land Muscles
Bird Land Hind legs and wings
Human Land Legs and sometimes arms
½ mark (6)

Use different coloured pencils to draw lines to match the animal track with the animal

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3

Animal Track
1. Frog 1B

A
2. Snake 2D

B
3. Bird 3C

C
4. Human 4A

D
5. Fish do not leave tracks because they move in water and water is a fluid.
1 mark (5)

Day 2

Today you are going to show your teacher how different animals move. The teacher can
evaluate this assessment in with learners in groups of 4.

No Yes
Teacher evaluation
1 Can the learner demonstrate how a frog
moves by jumping?
2 Can the learner demonstrate how a bird
moves by flapping its wings and hopping
on the floor?
3 Can the learner demonstrate how a
human move by jumping and walking?
(1. ½)

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