Dear Grade Fives!
Today:
- go to http://a-z-animals.com/animals/platypus/
- inquiry question: What are some interesting facts you have learned about the platypus?
- record brief, keyword notes that answer the question
- edit your notes
- post them
Wednesday:
- reread your notes to ensure they provide answers to the inquiry question
- write your paragraph
- read it over and edit it, use the checklist
- listen to your paragraph
- have a peer edit it as well
- post your blog and post it as usual
Blog responses
ReplyDelete*mammals
*lay eggs
*40-60cm
*weigh 5.3lbs
*approximately two feet long
*speed 35km
*life 15-20 years
*spend time water
*comes on land often
*eat shrimp
Platypus
ReplyDelete*mammal
* live 15 20 years
*live in Australia
*approximately two feet long
*weigh 5.3lbs
*speed 35km
*spend time water
*eat shrimp
*predators fox alligator snakes
*come on land often
Platypus
ReplyDelete• found only in Australia and Tasmania
• one of the mammals that lays eggs
• has weird characteristics
• webbed feet like a duck
• male platypus have a venomous spike on their back foots
• males are bigger than females
• spend more time in water
• comes to land often
• only mammals to locate their prey with electroreception
• are solitary animals
• they eat shrimp, insects and fish eggs
ReplyDeleteBlog response
• Mammal
• lay eggs
• female 1200g
• 12 hours hunting in water
• Otter footed
• Duck billed
• 2 eggs
• enemies, foxes, crocodile, snakes
• unhealthy live in dirty water
• lives 15 to 20 years
• male venemice spike
Platypus
ReplyDelete• indigenous to the eastern Australia
• only mammal that lays eggs
• weird characteristics
• otter footed
• duck billed
• beaver tail
• webbed feet
• male has venomous spikes
• venomous spikes self defense
• exert dominance
• female is1200kg
• most time in water
• finds prey use electroreception
• is semiaquatic animal
• small number of platypus in north of Australia
• lays two leathery eggs
• lives in burrows 30cm deep
• 12 hours hunting
*platypuses live Australia
ReplyDelete* Only mammals that lay eggs
*males venom spikes
*spend a lot of time water
* born blind
*the only animal that hunts with electrics
Platypuses
ReplyDelete*mammals
*weird characteristics
*two feet long
*top speed 22 mph
*lives 15 20 years
*spend time water
*eat shrimp, fish
*enemy fox, snake, alligator
platypus notes
ReplyDelete• there like a bird duck
• average weight is 1,200g.
• live in Australia
• the platypus is a semi-aquatic animal
• go down 30cm deep
• can last 12 hours under water
• platypus lay eggs
• locate there pray
ReplyDeleteBlog response
• mammal that lays eggs
• otter-footed
• duck-billed
• beaver tail
• webbed feet
• bird like duck
• venomous spike on foot
• venom can hurt humans
• venom for self defense
• male bigger than female
• female weighs 1,200g
• spends most time in water
• doesn’t go on land often
• semi-aquatic animal
• eats fish eggs and shrimp insects
• can swim 22mph (35k)
• weighs 5 pounds
• lives 15-20 years
• breading season October and June
• hunts for 12 hours
• predators fox snakes crocodile
Platypus
ReplyDelete• 2 eggs
• hatch month
• born blind hairless
• only mammal lays eggs
• male venomous spike foot
• male bigger than female
• female weighs 1,200g
• spend time water
• eat fish
• come land often
• tropical rain forests
• prey foxes snakes
• found north Australia
• breeding winter
• 12 hours hunting water
Platypus
ReplyDelete• Australia and Tasmania
• semi-aquatic
• blind, hairless born
• 12 hours hunting
• omnivore
• 40-60 cm long
• 15-20 years
• solitary
• brown ,gray ,black
• shrimp, insects fish eggs
• beaver duck
• venomous spike male foot
• fresh water creeks, rivers, lakes
• broad flat beak
• litter size = 2
• 0.7-2.4 kg
• scientific name = Ornithorhynchus Anatinus
• breeding (Australian) winter
Platypus notes
ReplyDelete• Otter-footed
• Webbed feet
• Duck-billed
• Beaver-tail
• 1 ,200g
• Bird like duck
• Most time in water
• Shrimp
• Lives 15-20 years
• 35km(22mph)
• Weigh 5 pounds
Platypus note
ReplyDelete- Live eastern Australia, Tasmania
- Mammals that lays eggs
- Otter footed duck billed beaver tailed
- Male has venomous spike for human
- Weigh up to 1,200g
- Eat fish
- Mostly under water
- Semi-aquatic
- Predators foxes snakes
- Mating 30cm deep
- Dirty water can kill
Platypus
ReplyDelete• Australia, Tasmania
• mammals
• weird: eggs, otter feet, duck bill, beaver tail
• webbed feet
• spike back foot
• winter deeper borrow
• leaves bedding
• 2 leathery eggs
• day hunt water
• under threat
• burrow 30cm
• 12 hours hunting
* 0.7-2.4kg
Platypus
ReplyDelete*duck-billed
*only mammal leys eggs
*otter footed
*live in eastern Australia
*beaver – tailed
*webbed feet
*like a aquatic bird
*male venomous spike back foot
*vital self dense
*females weigh 1,000g
*spend most time in water
*eating fish
*don’t come on land often
*semi-aquatic mammal
*prey many predators
* male bigger
Platypus
ReplyDelete*duck-Billed platypus
*live eastern Australia
*only mammal lays eggs
*otter footed
*duck billed
*beaver tall
*webbed feet like bird like duck
*Europeans encountered platypus no one believed them about animal
*male platypus has venomous spike back foot contains poison could cause severs pains
*venomousness spike vital self defence platypus believed venom amount go higher at breeding season
*female weights 1,200g
*platypus is usually in water do not come out very often
*one of the only prey that can electroreception
*tracks by a electric fields that the prey produces
*found in colder high lands
*prey to many predators
*semi aquatic mammals
*eat fish
*loves shrimp
*life span is 15-20 years
*swims 22 miles every day
Platypus
ReplyDelete*duck bill
* live eastern Australia, Tasmania
*only mammals lay eggs
*weird characteristics
*beaver tail
* Web feet
*venomous spike back foot contains poison
*weight 1,200kg
*most time in water
*people do not know what it was
*male bigger
*tropical rain forests
*north Australia
*born blind
*12 hour day hunting
*swim 22 miles per hour
*eat fish eggs
* Pray fox, snake
ReplyDeletePlatypus
• lays eggs
• bird like a duck
• prey fox
• prey snakes
• prey crocodiles
• eat fish
• duck billed
• 12 hour day hunting
• swim 22 miles per hour
• eat fish eggs
• hatch in 1 month
• 30 cm deep in water
• Life in span is 15 to 20 years
• Time in water
• Male are bigger
• Weird characteristics
Platypus
ReplyDelete• Buck bill beaver tail
• Webbed feet
• 1 mammilla’s they lay eggs
• Live in Australia
• Crocodile’s eat platypus
• Platypus hunts under 30 cm water for mating look for another platypus
• Eat fish
• Baby born blind / hairless
• Most time in water
• Female Weigh up to 1 200
Platypus
ReplyDelete• buck bill ,beaver tale
• webbed feet
• 1 mammilla’s that lay eggs
• male platypus venomous spike on back leg
• leg contain poison
• female platypus weigh 1 200g
• most time in water
• detect pray by field
• found highland Australia, tasmania
• female make deep burrow
• baby bourn blind, hearless
• there burrow is 30 cm deep
• eat fish
• 12 h a day hunting in the water
Platypus
ReplyDeleteThe platypus is one of the mammals that can lay eggs. A male Platypus has venomous spike on the back foot. A female weighs one thousand two hundred g. The platypus is otter footed, duck billed, beaver tail and wedded feet. The platypus is one of the mammals that can lay eggs.
Platypus
ReplyDeleteI am writing about the cool platypus. They are mammals they live 15-20 years. They live in Australia and weigh 5.3lbs.They come on land often and there speed is 35km. I am writing about the cool platypus.
Blog responses
ReplyDeleteHere are some of the interesting facts I have learned about the platypus. They are mammals and they lay eggs. The platypus can be 40-60 cm long and they weigh 5.3lbs. They are approximately two feet long and there top speed is around 35km. The platypus can live 15-20 years and it spends most of it’s time in the water. It also comes on land often and eats shrimp. These are some of the interesting facts that I have learned about platypus.
Blog response
ReplyDeleteThis is what I learned about the platypus. I learned that they are mammals that lay eggs. I also learned that they live fifteen to twenty years. The males have a venomous spike in their back legs. I learned that it is unhealthy for them to be in dirty water for a long time. That is what I learned about the platypus.
platypuses
ReplyDeleteThis is what I learned about the platypuses. This creature is known for its interesting characteristics. They are five pounds. The male has a venous spike on the back of its back leg. Platypuses swim really fast they have web feet. This is what I learned about the platypuses.
Platypus
ReplyDeleteThis week I learned about the Platypus. Platypus has a duck bill and a beaver tail. They have webbed feet and that the male platypus has a venomous spike on the back of their foot. They are one of the mammals that lay eggs. This week I learned about the amazing platypus.
Platypus
ReplyDeleteThe platypus is a vary different animal that we don’t see often they have a back bill beaver tail and they also have web feet. In mating season they hunt for a female platypus under 30 cm of water. 1 platypus lays eggs male comes and fertilises the eggs after that female protect eggs from crocodiles try to eat platypus to get there eggs. The platypus is a vary different animal that we don’t see vary often they have a back bill beaver tail. Thanks for reading.
Platypus
ReplyDeleteThey are found in eastern Australia and Tasmania. They are the only mammal that lays eggs. The Platypus has weird characteristics. They have webbed feet. The males have a venomous spike on the back foot. They have enough venom to cause much pain. This spike is a vital weapon in defence. The females average 1 200g. The Platypus is a semi aquatic mammal. They are hairless and blind when born.
Platypus
ReplyDeleteOur class has been learning about the platypus. The platypus lays two eggs then they hatch in one month and when they are born they can not see and are hairless. The platypus is the only mammal that lays eggs and the male has a venomous spike on his foot. The platypus is found in eastern Australia in rain forests that has snakes, foxes and other predators. The platypus stays in the water and hunts for fish but they come on land often. The male platypus is bigger than the female and the female weighs 1,200g. My class has been learning about the platypus.
Platypus
ReplyDeleteThese are the things I have leaned about the Platypus. They are found in eastern Australia and Tasmania. They are one of the only mammal that lays eggs. The Platypus has weird characteristics. They have webbed feet. The males have a venomous spike on the back foot. They have enough venom to cause much pain. This spike is a vital weapon in defence. The females average 1 200g. The Platypus is a semi aquatic mammal. They are hairless and blind when born.These are the things I have leaned about the Platypus.
Platypus
ReplyDeleteI have been learning about the platypus. They live in Eastern Australia and Tasmania. The babies are blind and hairless when they are born. Platypuses spend most of their day hunting in the water. They can grow up to sixty centimeters long. The platypus is a solitary animal and lives from fifteen to twenty years old. Also they come in different colors like black, gray, and brown. Their favourite foods are shrimp, insects, and fish eggs. Those are some things I have learned about the platypus.
Platypus
ReplyDeleteI will be doing a paragraph about the platypus. Platypuses have otter-feet and webbed feet. Also they have duck-billed. They also have a beaver-tail and weigh 5pounds. Also they can go (35km)-(22mph) .there usually in the water for a long time. Also there favourite prey is shrimp. Also they can live 15-20 years pretty long.
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In this paragraph I will be talking about platypuses. The platypuses scientific name is duck billed platypus. They live in eastern Australia and Tasmania. They are the only mammal that lays eggs. Platypuses are otter footed, duck billed, and beaver tailed. The platypus has webbed feet like a duck. Europeans encountered platypuses but know one believed them about the animal. The male platypus has a spike on the back foot that contains poison that can cause several pain. The venomous spike poison goes higher in breeding season. The male is heavier than the female. The average female platypus weighs one thousand two hundred grams. They do not come out of water very often. Platypuses are one of the only animals that can electroreception. These creatures life span is fifteen to twenty years. Platypuses track there prey with a electric field that the prey produces. They are semi-aquatic mammals. The platypus love shrimp and fish to eat. These are notes I found out about the platypus.
Platypus
ReplyDeleteIn this paragraph in I will be talking about platypus. Platypuses are the only mammal that lay eggs. Platypuses have otter footed. Platypus also have webbed feet. They live in eastern Australia Tasmania .The male platypus is bigger then the female. They don’t come on lands very often. Males have a venomous spick on there back leg. Platypus is a prey to many predators as well as fox’s and snacks. That is what I learned about platypus.
Blog response
ReplyDeleteI will be writing about the platypus. The platypus is one of the only mammals that lays eggs. The platypus is otter-footed, duck-billed; beaver tailed, and has webbed feet. The platypus is a bird like duck. The platypus has a venomous spike on his/her foot. The platypus venom can hurt humans. The venom is used for self defence. The platypus lives in Australia and Tasmania. The male platypus is bigger then the female platypus . The female platypus weighs 1,200g.It spends most time in water. This creature doesn’t go on land often. He/she is a semi-aquatic animal. They Eats fish eggs, shrimp and insects. This creature can swim 22mph (35k).weighs five pounds. The platypus lives 15 to 20 years. Platypus breading season is October and June. Platypus predators are fox, snakes, and crocodiles. The platypus hunts for 12 hours. This is what I have learned about the platypus.
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ReplyDeleteThese are some of the things I have learnt about the platypus. They live in eastern Australia and Tasmania. They have two main predators, foxes and snakes. Dirty water can kill them because their food can not live. They’re mostly under water because they are semi-aquatic animal their food is fish and shrimp. They weigh up to 1,200g.these are some of the things I have learnt about the platypus.
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ReplyDeleteI learned lots of interesting facts about the platypus. a Platypus is usually found in Australia and Tasmania. They are one of the mammals that lays eggs, they have weird characteristics and have duck foots. One of the most interesting facts that I learned is that the male Platypus has a venomous spike on their back foots and that they are the only animals that can locate their prey with electroreception. I learned lots of interesting facts about the Platypus.
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ReplyDeleteI am taking about platypus. The male platypus is bigger then the female. The female lays eggs then the eggs hatch in a month. The platypus hunts in the water for12 hour a day. The platypus Pry is foxes, crocodiles, snakes. The platypuses eat fish that are near them. They can swim for 22 miles per day. I am taking about platypus.
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ReplyDeleteI am going to write about the platypus. First the platypus lives in eastern Australia and Tasmania. Platypuses are mammals and they are one of the only mammals that lay eggs. Platypuses have a strange body because they have otter feet, duck bill, beaver tail and webbed feet. The male platypuses have a little spike on their back foot that has venom in it. That is how the platypuses protect them self. The platypus makes a deep borrow in the winter with leaves on the ground for bedding. When the platypuses lay their eggs they only lay about two at a time. The eggs are also leathery. They hunt during the day for there food. The platypuses borrows can go as deep as thirty centimeters. platypuses they hunt for twelve hours a day. When the leathery eggs hatch the babies are blind and hairless until they get a little older.
Platypus
ReplyDeleteIn this paragraph I will be talking about the platypus. Platypus has a duck bill, webbed feet and a beaver tail. They also have weird characteristics such as laying eggs and venomous spike in back foot. Platypus lives in eastern Australia and Tasmania and tropical rain forest. They spend most of there time in the water and they can swim twenty two miles per hour. The baby platypus is born blind. The male platypus is bigger then the female and the average weight is one thousand grams. They spend 12 hour day hunting. That is what I know about the platypus.
Platypus
ReplyDeleteWe are learning about platypuses. They live in Australia and other places. They are one of the only mammals that lay eggs. The males have venom spikes on there back foot. We are learning about platypuses.