Looking, Listening, and Thinking Carefully

It was a quick job for the kids to sort oviparous and not oviparous animals into the hoola hoops, so to extend our thinking, we explored and investigated the similarities and differences between some oviparous animals. Here are a few of their ideas:

• some can fly but others swim
• some can live on land and water while others can only live in water or only on land
• some have 4 legs, some have 2 legs, and some don't have legs at all
• some can be found in Canada and others can not
• some like hot weather and some like cold

With only picture cues and a little nudging and prompting to get them going we had a really great discussion (they're fab detectives!). As a follow up to the lesson the students were to draw two pictures of any oviparous animals and one that was not. Here is a sample of their drawings (enjoy!) :