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Animals and creatures that help us.
Social Science
Sub-topic 1:History of working animals
Key concept: People throughout history have relied on animals for help with transport, farming, protection and labour. Over time with the advancement of technology, animal jobs have been replaced with machines, some still assist us today. (Naude & Meier, 2025)
Skills: Sequencing events, past and present, continuity and change.
Values: Appreciation for the role animals have played in history, respect for their welfare.
Activity: Learners will observe old pictures of working animals and pictures of modern transport. They will then fill in a worksheet with different working animals and will identify the different jobs they have today and jobs that they have had in the past.
Sub-topic 2: Farm animals and their products.
Key concept: Farm animals help to sustain us by providing food and resources such as milk, wool, and eggs. (Naude & Meier, 2025)
Skills: Classifying, identifying animal products and interpreting information.
Values: Awareness of interdependence between people, animals and farming.
Activity: Learners will examine farm products and discuss where they come from. Inquiry question could be: "What would happen if we didn't farm animals?"
Technology
Sub-topic 2: Bees and how they help humans
Key concept: Technology can help people to create tools and products to help and protect the animals that. help us. (Naude & Meier, 2025)
Skills: Problem-solving, planning, builiding and evaluating finished products.
Values: Creativity, sustainability, respect for the environment.
Activity: Learners will follow a design process to create a bee feeder using recycled materials such as bottles and plastic containers.
Inquiry question: "What can we design that will help bees survive, so that they can continue to help us?"
Sub-topic1: Pets
Key concept: Pets are domesticated animals that provide humans with companionship. (DBE, 2011)
Skills: Designing different solutions to meet the needs of pets.
Values: Empathy, responsibility, kindness.
Activity: Learners will design a simple pet accessory of their choice for a pet of their choice, it could be a collar, toy or feeding dish. They will use recycled materials to create their product. Inquiry question: "What can we design to make our pets lives better?"
Natural Science
Sub-topic 1: Pollinators and their role in the environment.
Key concept: Pollinators help our plants to grow. (Naude' & Meier, 2025)
Skills: Observation, data collection, identifying the relationship between animals and plants.
Values: Respect for the environment and nature.
Activity: Learners will watch a video about bee pollination and they will observe the process of collecting nectar and how it is turned into honey. They will then draw a simple diagram showing how bees spread pollen from one plant to another.
Sub-topic 2: Animals that give us food and or clothing
Key Concept: Animals provide humans with different types of resources. We will look at the different products we get from cows such as milk, meat and leather.
Activity: Actively make butter from cream using a bottle and shaking it until butter is formed.
Skills: Experiment, identifying different animal products.
Values: Respect for animals, how we can use animal products sustainably
References:
Department of Basic Education (DBE). 2011. Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement: Life Skills Foundation Phase. Pretoria: Government Printer
Naudé, L. & Meier, C. 2025. Teaching Life Skills in the Foundation Phase. Pretoria: Van Schaik.