Summary Students watch snails crawling on a glass surface and record what they notice Science content Biology: Features, Adaptations of Living Things (K, 1, 3, 7) Biology: Classification of Living Things, Biodiversity (1, 3) Biology: Sensing, Organ Systems (4, 5, 6) Science competencies (+ questioning + manipulation + others that are in every activity) Planning/conducting: data collection/recording (K up) Processing/analyzing: experiencing and interpreting the local environment (K up) Evaluating: inferring (3 up) Lessons activity is in Snail study and habitat Materials Snails, one per table group Glass bowl, one per table group Worksheet to describe snails/write a poem Procedure Snails are placed on the undersurface of an inverted glass bowl, and put in the middle of a table group. Students can observe the snails moving, including the muscles rippling on the underside of the body. Talk as a class about how they move, how they sense etc. Students describe their observations and/or write a poem about the snail (shape poem can be written on a simple drawing of a snail). Adults can hand the students a snail to touch - this will help inspire their writing. Make sure snails are kept cool, and do not keep too long indoors. Grades taught Gr 1 Gr 2
