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Animals and Creatures that Help Us, Technology, Social Science, Natural…
Animals and Creatures that Help Us
Birds
Knowledge:
Birds build nests and lay eggs, and while many birds can fly, some like the ostrich and penguin cannot (DBE, 2011:14).
Skills:
Learners identify local birds, talk about them, and group them into 2 groups: Birds that can fly and Birds that cannot fly.
Values:
Learners learn to respect birds and understand the important role they play in the environment
Activity:
Learners watch short videos of different birds, the nests they build, and the eggs they lay, and then discuss what they saw.
Reptiles
Skills:
Leaners compare reptiles by talking about their body coverings, movement, and how they care for the young.
Values:
Learners learn to become careful around reptiles and show respect for them because some of them can be dangerous.
Activity:
Learners make a sorting chart where they place pictures of animals into 2 groups: mammals and reptiles.
Knowledge:
Reptiles such as snakes, crocodiles, and lizards are cold blooded animals that have hard scales on their bodies and lay eggs to have babies (DBE, 2025:59)
Products from Animals
Knowledge:
Animals give us useful things like wool, milk, leather, eggs, and honey. People can change these into food, clothing, and shoes (DBE, 2025:60-62).
Skills:
Learners investigate different textures of animal products and explain how people change them (raw materials - processed) into things we can use.
Values:
Learners learn to use animal products responsibly, avoid waste, and be thankful for what animals give us.
Activity:
Learners draw and colour a picture of shoes, jersey, cheese, that is made from an animal product.
Animals Long Ago
Knowledge:
In the past, people used donkeys and oxen to pull carts and plough fields, because there were no cars or tractors yet (DBE, 2011:14; DBE, 2025:52).
Skills:
Learners look at old and new pictures and talk about how people used animals long ago and how we use machines today.
Values:
Learners learn to be thankful for animals and understand how important they were for human life.
Activity:
Learners cut and paste pictures to make a timeline that shows animals used long ago and machines used now.
Animals in Different Regions
Knowledge:
Some animals live better in certain habitats, like sheep in cold areas, and donkeys in dry areas.
Skills:
Leaners look at a map of South Africa and point out where different animals can live.
Values:
Learners learn to care for animals and understand that different animals need different environments to live.
Activity:
Learners use animal cut-outs and stick them onto a big map of South Africa in the right places.
Technology
Ideas from Nature (Biomimicry)
Knowledge:
People get ideas from animals to make new things, like buildings shaped like a beehive or planes that look like birds (STADIO, 2025:101).
Skills:
Learners watch videos of materials people make by looking at animals, like planes shaped like birds.
Values:
Learners learn that animals can inspire us to make new things and that we should care for them because they help us with ideas.
Activity:
Learners choose an animal, discuss what people can make from its idea and then draw a picture of it.
Social Science
Natural Science