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Animals and creatures that help us - Coggle Diagram
Animals and creatures that help us
Social Science
Conservation: Bees
Many bee species are endangered because they are losing their habitat. We need bees because they pollinate flowers and that gives us food. We need to be aware of the things that hurt bees so we can be careful of doing these things (Michigan State University, n.d.).
Class Activity: Big group discussion on what we can do or stop doing in our immediate environment that will help bees survive.
Dogs that work for us
What kind of things do humans rely on dogs for? There are guide dogs for blind people, security/police dogs trained to smell out certain things, sheep dogs to herd livestock, and guard dogs (SA, 2025:62).
Class Activity: Learners form small groups and take turns to role-play how different dogs help humans.
Natural Science
Bees: Pollination gives us food
What is Pollination? Bees collect pollen from flowers because they use it for food, but as they fly from flower to flower, they leave some specks of pollen behind. Flowers need pollination to make fruit and seeds (Michigan State University, n.d.).
Class Activity: Learners go outside and find flowers in the playground. They watch what the bees do in the flowers and write your observations on a worksheet.
Cows give us dairy and beef.
There are different types of cows that get used for different purposes. Dairy cows are used for their milk. Well known are Ayrshire, Guernsey, and Jersey. Beef cows are used for meat and include Angus, Shorthorn, and Hereford (Britannica Kids, 2025).
Class Activity: Learners fill in a worksheet where they have to classify pictures of different labelled cows as either "Dairy" or "Beef".
Technology
Sheep give us wool for clothes
Wool process: There are different stages of wool production. These are shearing the sheep, cleaning and scouring it, sorting it by quality, then the wool fibres are aligned and it is spun into yarn. The yarn is then dyed, then woven or knitted into a final product (Khan Academy India, 2025).
Class Activity: Each student makes a weaving loom with cardboard and string. Then they each use it to weave something using wool.
Earthworms maintain rich soil
Earthworms break down food scraps and convert it into compost (their poo!). They are naturally in the soil but some people make worm farms so that they can use the compost the worms produce for their gardens (Cape Garden, n.d.).
Class Activity: After watching different videos of people making different worm farms, learners have to design their own simplified but detailed version on paper.