Animals
Natural Science
Farm animals are animals that are mainly raised or kept for consumption to help with some operation on the farms meaning the serve a certain purpose on the farm. Each form of animal can be group based on the digestive system common farm animals that you will get on the farm is: Chicken, Cows, Pigs, Rabbits, Horses, Donkey's.
Show learnings the various pictures of farm animals and a picture of the farm
Activity: Place a piece of paper for each learner with different kind of animals on. They must cut out and past which animals are farm animals and which animals are wild animals. The are busy classifying , observing and comparing.
Different types of Farm Animals
Camouflage of Animals
Camouflage animals are animals that mainly blend in with the environment around them to hide from predators or prey. There are even some types of camouflage that can disguise animals as something else. Animals camouflage them for the prey or predators which make it difficult for the prey to sneak up on them or escape, they use coloring and markings to blend into they environment. There are different types of camouflage animals chameleons, octopus , frogs. How camouflage takes place is animals have specialized cells in the body that help them to rearrange the pigment molecules that changes the color pattern in the skin.
Activity: We go outside to play hide and seek. Let some learners dress in green, brown and let them blend in with nature to demonstrate camouflage.
Social Science
Animals that provide clothing and food for humans
We may not realize how many animals we get our food and clothes from animals are used for various reason either for consumption or to serve a other purpose. Animals do play a very important role in our lives there are pig, cattle, fish, poultry, sheep and many more animals that we het our food from some of them provide also clothing. All animals are taken well care of before any process can start to develop certain products.
Habitat of wild animals
Activity: Place 4/6 types of food Infront of learners like: honey ,milk, piece of chicken and fish let them taste and guess where each product comes from you can place 3 clothing items also They must name the animal and says which farm/wild..
The need for wild animals to exist in a care free space is important. Wild habitat area's are distributed mainly on wide open landscapes where reproduction can take place and where there is a basic requirement like food and water. The wildlife habitat various according to the needs of each species it is important to understand the aspect whether sufficient wildlife habitat is available and understanding the needs and requirements of each species life cycle.
Activity: Create a shoe box filled with leaves and look through magazines for wildlife animals and paste it inside the shoelbox:
Technology
The process of wool farming
South Africa's wool industry is one of the largest in the world meaning we provide most of the wool that gets manufactured. There many many aspects of wool farming on the farm and lots of infrastructure needs to takes place before wool farming can start. You need to have a lot of sheep to fill the bales, the wool needs to be scouring from the sheep, sorting, dyeing, rolling and than comb through.
Activity: Teacher provides each learner with a toilet roll with cotton wool on. Learners are now instructed to start wool farming by starting the process of scouring from the sheep meaning taking off cotton wool from toilet paper, sorting it into small piles etc.: Learners are also provided with a piece of paper of a template of clothing where they can make the own clothes' of wool either trousers or jacket. They will than communicate and explain to the class what they made.
Animals under water
Animals living under water its called marine life. We have various animals that lives under water and living under water survive in poorly oxygenated waters. Fishes have gills instead of lungs like we do there are well other fishes that have lungs like lungfish which have both many under sea creatures live together and all for them serve they own purpose underneath.
Activity: Learners now have to create a fish tank from scratch they will be placed in groups with a 2L water bottle which will be cut in half and design and make they own.