Inquiry and project based learning will come in handy when students will study about animals because they will be able to work in pairs or groups. The students will be able to do research on the internet together, doing collaborative and cooperative learning.

Students are actively making observations, collecting, analyzying, and synthesizing information, and drawing on conclusions.

EQ: What is a living organism? This might be an essential question because according to
the galileo educational network this question permits "fruitful exploration of what others
before us have learned and discovered, attempts to answer an essential question open
up mysteries that successively reveal themselves the more we come to "know"". It also
according to the galileo educational network, allows people to explore the connection
between their personal, individual, unique experience of the world and its exterior".

Unit questions: What are the basic needs of animals?
How do animals reproduce?
How do they grow?