Intro Quiz: What is the difference between an invertebrate and a vertebrate?

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﻿Hi everyone. I'm miss Harris. And welcome to our second lesson of our animal kingdom unit. Are you doing well today? Good, now we are going to be looking at the differences between invertebrates and vertebrates. I'm going to be explaining to tell what those words mean, and what the differences between those are. Now invertebrates and vertebrates are how we classify animals. So we can put all animals into two groups, either invertebrates or vertebrates. Now, at the end of the lesson I'm going to be asking you to tell me what animal lives in this habitat. So this is a coral reef. At the end, can you tell me one animal which you know lives in the coral reef. So keep it in your head if you've got one now. Well done if you've got one now. Let's find out what else we're learning today. So we're going to be recapping what a living thing is. Learning about what is an invertebrate? What is a vertebrate? And identifying some different animal families. And lastly, our end of lesson quiz. Before we get started, these are the things you will need. An exercise book or a piece of paper, a pencil, a coloured pen or pencil, and your brain. If you need to get these things pause the video now. Well done. Let's practise our Star Words. So I'm going to say then I want you to say. You ready? Living thing vertebrate skeleton hard spine Invertebrate. So we've got invertebrate vertebrate. Good Well done. Now, each lesson I'm going to be describing an animal. And I would like you to find it so that we can get our brain nice and warmed up. Are you ready? So the animal I'm thinking of is white, it has got some paws, four paws, it walks on four legs, it has got round ears, it lives in a very cold place called The Arctic, it can swim in really cold water, and it's furry. What animal am I describing? I am describing a polar bear. Did you get that one right? Well done. That was a tricky one, wasn't it? There's lots of animals on here which are white. Now let's recap what a living thing is. So there are five features to a living thing. The first is all living things need to be able to breathe. Take your hands, put them on the side of your chest. Take a deep breath and breathe out breathe in hold it then breathe out . All living things need to breathe. All living things need to feed so they need to eat. And they can choose whether they would they only eat meat, or plants, or both. It's up to the animal. It depends on what animal it is. All living things reproduce so they can have babies. And all living things produce waste so they go to the toilet. Do elephants have toilets like this? No, they just go to the toilet anywhere in the wild. So do lots of other animals. And lastly, all animals grow, and change over time. So us as humans we don't say babies forever. We need to grow up so that we can protect ourselves like all animals in the animal kingdom. Now, I would like you to use your finger to connect the picture of the feature of a living thing to its label. So pause the video do that now. Right let's check whether you've got the right answer. So first, we've got waste, growing and changing, feeding, reproduce, and breathing. Let's learn about what an invertebrate is. So here is the definition, and we're going to read it, and I'd like you to follow your finger across the screen. Are you ready? So, an invertebrate, ready? Is an animal which does not have a backbone. They either have a soft body, like worms, and jellyfish. Or they have a hard casing covering their body like spiders and cramps. So your backbone, what I want you to do is I want you to take your hand, put it round the back of your neck, just below your neck here. Then lean forward to tip your head down towards your chest so your chin is on your chest. And then I want you to move your hand up and down. Can you feel all the bony bits on the back of your neck? Can you feel that? They are your that's your backbone. Those bony bits are your spine, part of your spine, your backbone. Invertebrates do not have one of those. So they are either soft, or they have a hard casing covering their body. So let's recap. Invertebrates do not have a backbone. Can you do that? They do not have a backbone. They are they either have a soft body like jellyfish and worms, or they have a hard outer casing like a shell covering their body like spiders and crabs. Now I'm going to show you what an invertebrate the description of an invertebrate using a bowl of jelly. So let's have a look. So I've got a bowl here of jelly. Now the reason I'm using a bowl of jelly to show an invertebrate is, is because jelly is soft and squishy, like the inside of an invertebrate. Now they do not have a backbone. So they either have a soft body, like worms and jellyfish, or they have a hard outer casing of their body like spiders and crabs. So first I'm going to show you to tip my jelly upside down. Its going to the shape of my bowl, I've got So, say I've got my jelly. This is what a jelly fish might look like, and a worm. We know that a worm is a long shape, but the jellyfish body looks like this it's really squishy we can poke it. Now, an invertebrate does not have a backbone so it's going to be nice and soft like this. And in those might look like this, or it might have a hard outer casing. So, I can touch the jelly like this if it's a jellyfish or worm. But if I put my bowl back over the top, can I get to the jelly now? Can I touch the jelly? I cannot touch the jelly, because my bowl represents the hard outer casing of an invertebrate. So then I put it back down. Can I get to the jelly? No, but if I lift it up, I can. So it's either like this, a soft body, or it has a hard shell like this over the top. So that, is how jelly represents an invertebrate. So now hopefully we are a little clear about what an invertebrate is. So let's write down some facts. The first sentence says, an invertebrate is an animal which does not have a, mmhh. So they either have a soft body like a jellyfish or a worm, or this sentence here or they have a mmhh outer casing covering their body. Can you pause the video, write the sentences down, and fill in the gaps. Let's check. Pick up your coloured pen or pencil. We're going to tick or fix. We're going to tick if we've got the right answer or fix it if we've got the wrong answer. So they ha... They do not have a backbone, and they either have a soft body, or a hard outer casing. Now here are the two pictures of some invertebrates. Can you pause the video, and tell me what these invert the name of these invertebrates. And press play when you're done. So we have got an ant and a snail. Well done. So I'm going to show you a table now which helps us identify invertebrates. So some invertebrates are with they either have legs, or they don't have legs. So they either have legs, or they don't have legs. Okay? So jointed legs remember we looked at crab so crab is a type of invertebrate, and they have legs which bend like this. They have jointed legs. So our fingers have got joints in them. And that's what a crab's legs are like. So now we can see a list of animals here. So we have got sorry a list of how many they've got. So they either have three pairs of legs, which we can see here, and let me make it bigger for you. So all we can see now, a list of animals which are all invertebrates. Some have three pairs of legs some have more than three pairs of legs, and some are worm like, and some are not worm like. So let's see what animals we've got. So we've got an ant, a cockroach, or a ladybug. Which have three, or more pairs of legs. We then got a so we here we've got a scorpion. Then we've got worm like invertebrate like an earthworm or a leech. And then lastly, we have got not like a worm so it doesn't have legs, but it's also not like a worm, which is a tape. These are lots of invertebrates here. In your books, I would like you to draw three invertebrates. Pause the video, and do that now. Well done. Now let's learn about what an invertebrate is. So follow with your finger. Sorry, we're learning about what a vertebrate is. Vertebrates, vertebrates are animals which have a backbone inside their body. So vertebrates do have a backbone. So we are vertebrates, because we have a backbone. The major animal families include fish, amphibians, birds, and mammals. So they are some of the animal families which are vertebrates. So they have a backbone, they do have a backbone. And here are some of the animal families. So you might recognise some of these animals, and they are vertebrates. They have a backbone. So now we've got our pause point. Can you name these two types of vertebrates? So we've got a goldfish and a pigeon. Hopefully you knew the names of those. Now we're going to write some facts about a vertebrate. So what is a vertebrate. Vertebrates are animals which have a mmhh inside their body. What do they have inside their body? Pause the video, and write that sentence down filling in the gaps. Well done. So they have a backbone inside their body. So let's look at the table again. So here we've got vertebrates, vertebrates, they are warm blooded, or cold blooded. So we've got here other animal families we've got mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians. Here are some examples of those animals which are vertebrates. So some you can see that mammals and birds are warm blooded, whereas fish and reptiles, and amphibians are cold blooded. Can you draw three vertebrates in your book? Pause the video do that now. Well done. Now let's identify some animal families. So there are lots of different types of animal families. And in this unit of work, we will be learning about each group. So there are two categories. We've got invertebrates and vertebrates. What is we have learned about today. There are then as you can see different animal families in each group. So vertebrates we've got crustaceans, arachnids, and insects. Whereas invertebrates we've got fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds. Over the next few lessons, we are going to be learning about each group that is in these two categories. Some are invertebrates, and some are, are vertebrates. Some are invertebrates some are vertebrates. Now it's time for your end of lesson quiz. Where you can show off everything that you have learned today. You've worked super hard, and I'm really impressed. But before we go, can you tell me one animal which lives in the coral reef? Well done. So you could have said any fish which you know, that lives in the sea in the coral reef. But another animal you might not know are crabs live in coral reefs. And so do some types of sharks. Some smaller ones. Well done today, and I'll see you next time, bye.

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In this lesson, we will be learning about the differences between invertebrates and vertebrates. All animals can be classified as either invertebrates which do not have a backbone or vertebrates which have a backbone. We will be identifying different animals from these classifications. You will need a pencil, a piece of paper and most importantly your brain!

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