Oviparous and Viviparous Animals

We have been studying and learning about oviparous and viviparous animals.  This is a really fun topic to teach young children about.  My favorite book for introducing this topic is called Chicken's Aren't the Only Ones by Ruth Heller.  This book is great for showing that many animals other than chickens come from eggs and are oviparous.

 

A great follow-up book that we've read is called Animals Born Alive and Well, also by Ruth Heller.  This book discusses mammals and their characteristics and introduces the word "viviparous", meaning animals who give birth to live young.

 

I came up with a cut and paste activity to support our study of this topic.  Below you can see how I've set it up on the shelf.  The children do this activity at the two tables facing the shelf, so they don't have to carry the materials anywhere.  They just sit down and grab what they need.

 

From left to right I have a tray with the Oviparous/Viviparous sorting page and a tray with the animal pictures..........

 

......then a basket with glue, a bowl with scissors, a jar with a pencil for writing their name on the work, and a tray with vinyl gluing mats.

 

To do this work, the child cuts apart the animal pictures and lays them out in the appropriate column: oviparous or viviparous.  Then they have a teacher check their work.  Once their work is checked, they can glue the pictures onto their paper.

 

 

You are welcome to download and use my sorting page and pictures using the files below.

Download Oviparous Viviparous Sorting page

Download Oviparous viviparous animals for sorting

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Is a Seal a oviparous animal or viviparous animal?

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Thanks for pointing that out, Jessica. I must have snapped the photo before the student had their work checked. We do always check it before they glue.

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...turtles are hatched from eggs.

[Anna]

Looks like a great activity to compliment the Life Cycle of a chicken work that is flying off the shelf inour classroom. Thanks!!

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We just had an egg class with our local Nature Center and the naturalist read "Chickens Aren't the Only Ones" and then she took us outside to look for insect egg sacks and snail eggs. I have a feeling my little ones are going to love this matching game. Thank you!

[Jamie]

Thank you for sharing this! I'm printing it off to do this weekend. I hope everything is going well for you and your family.

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Thank you so much for sharing this activity!

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Wonderful activity - thanks so much for the downloads!

[Andie]

Great! Thanks for the download! This will work great with what we are studying right now!

[Theresa]

Great activity! Printed it up for dd to do today!Thanks for sharing!