Phase II

Developing the Project

It was time to research and discover more about the animal kingdom...

Online research with children about Animal Kingdom

Children were able to categorize animals in respective groups

Children talked more about Animals:

Hrishav : "Octopus has 3 hearts and it has blue blood."

Nandini : "Fish have fins. They breathe with their gills."

Kahan : "Dogs are of many types- German Shephard, Bulldog, Dalmatians."

Kush : "Dolphin is an intelligent creature living in water."

Vivaan : "Tiger is national animal of India. Woh hamesha piche se attack karta hai and sher aagay se attack karta hai."

Investigation about animal habitats and food through video

Children were aware of the habitat and food. More Exploration of animal habitat and food was done by watching some educational videos..

Aarna: "Mouse lives in a hole. Polar bear lives where there is a snow. Rabbit lives in a burrow."

Hrishav: "Spider lives in a web. Dog eats dog food."

Kabir: "Honeybee lives in a honeycomb. Lion hunts animals. It is a carnivore."

Mihira: "Jellyfish, dolphin, starfish live in deep sea water."

Aarav: "Earthworm- It lives inside the soil."

Kaira: "Panda lives in the jungle. It eats bamboo tree. Lion is a carnivore, deer is a herbivore and dog is omnivore."

Nandini: "Snakes live in jungle and holes."

Granth: "Horse lives in stable and crab lives in water."

Salwin: "Fish lives in water. Penguin eats fish."

Granth Ajmera

"Sting ray fish, octopus, turtle, all live in sea".

Vihaan Shah

"Birds live in nests. Monkeys live on trees and rabbit lives ina burrow."

Kaira Desai

"Lion in the den, tiger in the cave, dog house-kennel, hippo in the jungle."

Children went to hunt animal homes in their surroundings:

An extensive outdoor play- Children went to hunt for animal homes around their homes.What interesting discoveries!

Hridya

I saw a worm in my garden.

Hridya

This is an aquarium. It is a fish tank.

Hridya

I found a nest of a bird in my house balcony.

Salwin

I found a home of an insect.

Search Engine -"Kiddle.co" helped us satisfy children's curiosity

We researched together in the class and came to know about lot of interesting facts about aquatic animals.

https://www.natgeokids.com/nz/discover/animals/sea-life/jellyfish-facts/

Jellyfish have no brain, heart, bones or eyes.
Jellyfish digest their food, which consists of fish, shrimp, crabs and tiny plants.
Jellyfish have been around for millions of years, even before dinosaurs lived on the Earth.
Jellyfish are clear, but others are vibrant colours of pink, yellow, blue and purple. They can be bioluminescent, too, which means they produce their own light!

https://onekindplanet.org/animal/seahorse/

Seahorses prefer to swim in pairs with their tails linked together.
They swim upright. Seahorses have no teeth and no stomach.
Food passes through their digestive systems so quickly, they must eat almost constantly to stay alive.

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/animals/general-animals/10-tiger-facts/

Tigers are good swimmers!
Tigers hunt alone in the night.

https://parenting.firstcry.com/articles/facts-and-information-about-starfish-for-kids/

Starfish are not really fish. They are echinoderms. The echinoderms usually have five arms. These are marine invertebrates. Starfish do not have a brain. They do have a system of nerves and nerve plexus below their skin that perform the function of a nervous system. They are perceptive to touch, light, and temperature.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/facts/dolphins

Dolphins are graceful, sleek swimmers that can reach speeds of more than 18 miles an hour. Social creatures, bottle nose dolphins travel in groups, called “pods“, of around 10-15. In these groups they play and hunt together, as well as cooperate to raise young dolphin calves and help each other.

https://www.tweentribune.com/article/tween56/how-do-dolphins-sleep-without-drowning/

Dolphins aren't like fish, which can breathe underwater.
They're mammals and they have to get to the surface to breathe air periodically.

https://www.coolaustralia.org/fun-facts-about-penguins/

Penguins are flightless birds. – While other birds have wings for flying, penguins have adapted flippers to help them swim in the water. Most penguins live in the southern hemisphere

Walrus

https://www.kiddle.co/s.php?q=facts+on+Walrus#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=facts%20on%20Walrus&gsc.page=1

Walruses spend about two-thirds of their lives in the water. · A thick layer of blubber insulates the walrus. · To locate food, walruses use their whiskers.

Blue whale

https://www.natgeokids.com/nz/discover/animals/sea-life/10-blue-whale-facts/

Pretty much everything about the blue whale is massive. Its tongue weighs as much as an elephant, its heart is the size of a car and its blood vessels are so wide you could swim through them! These blue-grey giants have a long, stream-lined body, a wide head, huge flippers, a powerful tail and a small dorsal fin.

Squid

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/are-squids-as-smart-as-dogs

There is more to squids — which belong to the cephalopod family, with octopi and cuttlefish — than meets the eye. They are actually able to count, solve problems, recognize patterns, and communicate through a number of signals. Though colour-blind, they are also able to instantly change colours, using different colours on their upper and lower bodies to blend into different backgrounds and attract potential mates.

Monster Lizard

https://www.kiddle.co/s.php?q=monster+lizard#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=monster%20lizard&gsc.page=1

The colorful, beadlike skin of the gila monster helps with camouflage. Its claws are used for digging burrows and for digging out other animals' eggs.

Hands on exploration

Children created fossils...

Aarna Raval

Vihaan Shah

Granth Ajmera

Hridya Ujalayan

Jiana Dhankani

Kush Thakkar

Nandini Singh

Salwin Himani

Story

Good Night Tinku

Children learnt about nocturnal animals through a story, 'Good Night Tinku.'

Children were introduced to Nocturnal animals through a story, 'Good Night Tinku.' Children reflected after the story, "Ma'am cat is also a nocturnal animal." ,"I visited the Kankaria Zoo and it also has many nocturnal animals."

'Field trip with Parents'

Children's knowledge about animals enhanced through different experiences. It was time to go deeper into their area of interest i.e. aquatic animals. They visited the Science City Aquarium to see the sea creatures closely.

Parigya Jain

"I visited an Aquarium with my family. I saw lots of different colourful fishes and aquatic creatures."

Parigya Jain

"I also saw many other creatures, aquatic plants too."

Parigya Jain

"I saw a white fish having long tail and a nose."

Parigya Jain

"A sting ray fish brown in colour."

Reyansh Rathod

"I saw many colurful fish."

Jiana Dhankani

"I visited the Green Planet Dubai with my Mom and my brother."

Hridya Ujalayan

"I saw many star fish and colourful fish. First time I saw a lobster frogs and many aquatic animals.I enjoyed there."

Jiana Dhankani

"I visited the Green Planet Dubai- It is a Hedgehog."

Hridya Ujalayan

"I saw many big and small fish. I loved the field trip to Science city Aquarium."

Kahan Sheth

"I saw different colours of fish in the Aquarium."

Kahan Sheth "I visited an Aquarium with my mom. I saw different fishes. I enjoyed a lot."

Kaira Desai

"I saw many gold fish in the science city Ahmedabad aquarium and also a sting ray fish."

Post Field trip Drawings

Children recalled their field trip...

Kaira Desai: "I saw a cat fish, sting ray fish jelly fish when I went to see aquarium with my mother."

Parigya Jain: " I went to see fish with my brother, over there i saw star fish, shark, and other colorful fishes".

Hridya Ujalayan: "I went to see the aquarium in Ahmedabad with my sister and got to see jellyfish, starfish, many colourful fish and fighter fish in the gig tunnel aquarium."

Mihira Sah: "There are sharks, otter, jelly fish octopus, sting ray in the aquarium. Mummy and Mihira are watching."

Aaradhya Singh

I saw many fish, jellyfish, Octopus when I went with my family to see ".

Reyansh Rathod

"I saw may fish in the glass bowl."

Granth Ajmera

I went with my family and in the tunnel, I saw shark and many more colorful fish".

Kabir Shaikh

I saw a Duck, rabbit and cat in The Sundervan zoo. It is near our school.

Salwin Himani

Vivaan Joshi

I made aquarium which has cobra, lion and other water fish"

Kahan Sheth

I saw many fish in the Science city aquarium. It was a glass big tunnel."

A virtual field trip to "Fun Fish aquarium" helped them to see and know more about fish and their food.

'Mr.Akshay'

Proprietor: Fun fish aquarium

Colorful fish in the aquarium

Black fish from Kolkatta

Black white fish From Kolkatta

Golden Fish from Kolkatta

Duck

Moli fish

The food of fish

Feeding the fish

Food for the fish

Fighter fish

Guppy fish

Feeding the fish

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Different types of shark

Many colourful fish in the aquarium.

Colourful birds in the cage

Many colourful fish in the aquarium.

Visualizing the model

Children were curious to make their own model of Aquarium so they started visualizing how will it look like and what material they will use to create it.

Individual Blueprints of The Aquarium