TARGET IN ACTION

Make a poster to compare a real animal and a fictional one

1 Choose an animal character you really like from a cartoon, a film, a game, etc. Find out what the real-life animal is like. Then copy and complete the chart:

Animal character Differentiating features Similarities

How is the character different from the real animal? Can it talk? Does it wear clothes? Does it move differently?

What do the character and the real animal have in common? Do they look the same? Do they live in similar places?

2 Time to create your poster! Divide a piece of card in half.

On the left

Write the name of your character. Write information about the film, series or game it’s from, where it lives, how it behaves, etc.

Add photos and drawings to your poster.

Real animal Differentiating features

How is the real animal different from the character? Does it behave differently? Does it feed on something different? Does it look different?

H o w have I learned?

On the right

• Write the name of the real animal. Describe it.

• Add photos and drawings to your poster.

1 In this unit, some things were probably fun to learn and some things were probably hard. In your portfolio, write down three things that were fun to learn and three things that were hard.

2 Now you know that humans are animals. You also know that we need to look after ourselves physically and emotionally. Say three things you do to look after your body and your emotions.

The best part of the unit

The hardest thing to learn ... ... ... ... ... ...

Which word in each group doesn't belong?

Match the descriptions to the animals: a) I keep the plant upright and I have branches. b) I perform photosynthesis. c) I absorb water and mineral salts. d) I am made up of petals. e) I make pollen. f) I contain ovules.

I have a soft muscular body and a hard shell. I don’t have legs.

What part of the plant am I?

Look at these two animals:

I have a jelly-like body and poisonous tentacles around my mouth.

I have thin skin and four legs, and I need to live near water. I have scales, a hard shell and four legs.

My body is covered in feathers. I don’t have teeth and I breathe with lungs.

My body is long and thin and it has rings.

In your notebook, write down where each stage of the nutrition function in plants takes place.

Releasing oxygen (formed during photosynthesis) into the air a) Do they have anything in common? b) Write at least five differences.

Photosynthesis

Absorbing oxygen from the air

Transporting the xylem sap and the phloem sap

Use the words to complete the sentences about physical wellbeing:

In your notebook, write down foods you should eat occasionally, weekly or every day.

PERSONAL hygiene

DIET healthy SEDENTARY exercise good sleep

a) Follow good ... .... .

b) Do .... every day.

c) Avoid being ...

d) Follow a ... ... .

e) ... at least nine or ten hours every night.