Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Animals and creatures that help us - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Knowledge: Learners will take a closer look in specific animals and who works with them as well as explore different occupations. They will look how these ones care and protect these animals and again reinforce the idea that animals depend on humans for care, food, and shelter, while humans rely on animals for help and companionship(Humane Society of Greater Niagara, 2025).
      - Values: Learners will learn important values such as responsibility as they see how much hard work it takes to care for these animals, and respect for those who work with these animals, for the animals and the natural world(D’Alessandro, 2020).
      - Skill: Learners will develop research and enquiry skills as they get to know the different people who work with the animals, they will understand the inner workings of human-animal relationships, as well as learning a sense of social responsibility as they think about how they can protect these animals that help us(Naudé and Meier, 2025).
        
        Inquiry-Based Learning Activity:In this activity, students will examine how various animal workers deal with community issues. They will collaborate in small teams to investigate certain problems, such as helping a lost dog or a sick farm animal, using a classroom map as a guide. Students will investigate the exact jobs, equipment, and abilities required for their problem using books and internet resources or videos which i will provide. Following that, they will exhibit their findings in groups to the class to demonstrate their understanding of interdependence and the important duties that these animal helpers provide within our community(Sheehy, 2024).
  - - - Knowledge: Learners will understand how, in the past, humans relied a lot on animals for help. They will learn how horses, donkeys, and camels were used for transport, how oxen and donkeys helped farmers plough through fields, as well as how back then, technology wasn't used.
      - Values: This topic teaches children to appreciate the lessons of the past and the journey to the present, it helps them to think about things in different viewpoints, helps them to recognize that animals have feelings, reinforces the value of working together with animals to achieve a common goal such as happy living.
      - Skill: Learners compare how animals helped us in the past to how animals help us now, as well as showing strong critical thinking skills. They also develop the skill of understanding the change of time and objects that change with time(Public History Initiative, 2020).
        
        Inquiry-Based Learning Activity:Learners will be shown pictures and illustrations of animals used in transport, farming, and daily life,learners will be separated into small groups, each group will get a picture of an animal and they will need to investigate that animals role in the past, they should either write it down or draw it. They must then discuss their findings with the class and compare how they helped us in the past to how they help today,
- - - - Skill: Here they investigate and observe different products we get from animals, experiment and make a product from its primary state to a new product, and then finally communicate with each other what they did to create, for instance, butter or flavoured milk, and write down what they did to achieve it.
        
        Inquiry-Based Learning Activity: Learners will be divided into groups and must explore pictures of animal products and think of another product they can make using materials we get from animals. Then we focus on cows, think about the different things we get from cows and try to make 1 product from it.
      - Knowledge: They will be able to identify which products come from which animal and find out about the basic processes used to get these products for instance how wool is shorn from sheep and how ow a raw material becomes a finished product(Innovation News Network, 2020).
      - Values: Learners gain respect for animals and will learn the importance of using animal products wisely, by learning how we get these products. They can compare and contrast past methods of obtaining materials like wool or leather with modern, often more ethical, practices leading them to be aware of safer practices(Naudé and Meier, 2025.
  - - - Knowledge: Learners will know that tools are provided to not only make these products but also to get them safely and identify the different products used for each animal. They will also learn how these tools evolved as upgrades are made and that it's made to protect us humans and animals.
      - Values: Learners will see the importance of using tools wisely, understand that tools don't hurt but help protect animals during product collection, and see the value of how these tools make life easier for us and these animals(Innovation News Network, 2020).
      - Skill They investigate and observing the problem and then come up with a solution. Then they design their tool and make a prototype. They will have to evalute and check their tool to ensure safe for use and then finally present their tool to their class and communicate how they made it.
        
        Inquiry-Based Learning Activity: Learners will observe and look at pictures of tools that help us get products from animals, identify the problem which is 'Build a tool to keep our product safe", they must then plan and design their contraption for instance, a container to hold eggs. They must design one, test out its durability, see if its easy to use and then finally present it to the class and explain how they made it and what efforts they reached to ensure it is safe for use.
- - - - Knowledge: Learners know what bees are (insects) as they have already learned about insect life cycles and bees were one of the insects discussed, as well as have some knowledge on how bees construct and build their own hives (Department of Basic Education, 2011).
      - Skill:Learners will develop their natural science skills such as observation skills, predicting skills as they can predict what might happen when the bees move from flower to flower, then experiment with their own tools how the bees move from flower to flower and then finally communicating their findings by drawing a diagram and explain the diagram of how the bees pollinate flowers to the rest of the class(Naudé and Meier, 2025).
        
        Inquiry-Based Learning Activity:Two paper flowers dusted with yellow powder (representing pollen) and either a cotton ball or a toy bee will be given to each student. Learners must use their "Bee" to collect pollen from one flower to the next and pay close attention to how the powder transfers to the other flower. They then need to write down what they saw, try it in a simple diagram, and then use that diagram to explain to the class how they understood the process of pollination(Childsci.org, 2023).
      - Values:Learners will see the important role these little creatures play in our daily lives and develop a sense of environmental responsibility and seeing how important it is for us to protect them(Naudé and Meier, 2025).
  - - - Skill: Learners will be able observing, classifying animals according to similarities, comparing various animal aspects, and communicating their discoveries along with explanations for how these attributes contribute to the animal's ability to endure its natural habitat (Naudé and Meier, 2025).
        
        Inquiry-Based Learning Activity: Learners will get a sheet with different characteristics of animals, and in the empty block next to the characteristics, they will need to write down what animals it is. The sheet will also include a block where they can write down if each animal has any similarities to another animal and compare their characteristics(Ankita Singha, 2025).
      - Knowledge: Learners know that animals, like all living things, need food, water, and shelter to survive and they are different from one another (Department of Basic Education, 2011).
      - Values: Students learn to value the gifts of nature, such as food, clothing, and a variety of materials, by seeing into the characteristics of various animals that help us. They also develop an admiration for the variety of life on Earth and the distinct skills possessed by each species(Naudé and Meier, 2025).