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Animals and creatures that help us - Coggle Diagram
Animals and creatures that help us
Natural Science
Week 1
Introduce how animals are helping us
Look at the basic needs of animals such as food and water.
Week 2
How do animals give us food or clothing (DBE,2012)
Explore bees (honey & pollination)
Explore Chickens (the life cycle. eggs :arrow_right: Chick :arrow_right: hen)
Discuss how cows gives us milk
Discuss that sheep gives us wool
Week 3
What do we get from animals?
Compare materials and products from animals against synthetic (DBE,2012).
Week 4
How do animals work for us?
explore features of horses and donkeys that makes them helpful
Donkeys and horses have strength.
Dogs have strong senses
intelligence of the animals (Department of Basic Education, 2011)
Week 5
How can we care for the animals that help us?
Discuss the care we can provide to animals
Resources
CozyTimeTales (2020) All About Bees! | CozyTimeTales Read Aloud [online video]. YouTube. Available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbufE-y_Knk
[Accessed: 5 October 2025].
Social Science
Week 1
Identify where can we find farms (DBE,2012)
Week 2
Compare old farming styles and techniques against today (DBE,2012).
Week 3
Discuss how animal products support our communities and small markets.
Discuss product trading (DBE,2012)
Week 4
Discuss how the community benefits from helper animals such as :
guide dogs
Horses
Donkeys
Police dogs
(DBE,2012)
(Department of Basic Education, 2011).
Week 5
Animals also have rights.
What is our responsibility towards them
(Hughes,2014).
https://books.google.co.za/books?id=azZNEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA22&dq=books+with+facts+about+taking+care+of+animals+dogs+for+kids&hl=af&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi9lJrWjpWQAxVMT0EAHeVEPdsQ6AF6BAgGEAMhttps://books.google.co.za/books?id=azZNEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA22&dq=books+with+facts+about+taking+care+of+animals+dogs+for+kids&hl=af&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi9lJrWjpWQAxVMT0EAHeVEPdsQ6AF6BAgGEAM
Resources
Hughes, C.D. (2014) National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of African Animals. New York: National Geographic Kids.
Animals that give us food/clothes
Bees
Chickens
cows
sheep
Animals that work for us
Dogs - guide dogs, watch dogs, sniffer dogs
Donkeys and horses
Technologies
Week 1
Discuss what shelter or equipment animals need
Week 2
Design a chicken feeder to keep the food clean from sand
Week 3
make a prototype of the chicken feeder.
Week 4
-Test the effectiveness of the feeder
what can be improved
Is the feeder strong enough
Week 5
Communicate and explain how the feeder will help the chickens (Meier&Naude, 2022)
Resources
Kays, R. (2016) Candid Creatures: How Camera Traps Reveal the Mysteries of Nature. Princeton University Press.
Additional point of interest :Some interesting information on how small cameras have been used to observe animal homes. Beehives have been studied from up close.