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Animals & Creatures that help us - Coggle Diagram
Animals & Creatures that help us
Natural Science
Animals that give us food and/clothes
Cows
Concept: Cows give us milk used to make cheese, butter, yogurt through fermentation. The bacteria turn milk sugar into lactic acid to thicken the milk (yogurt) and churning process which separates the fat from milk liquid. (butter) (Bailey,1984)
Activity: Learners make butter by shaking cream in a jar.
Chicken
Concept: Chickens lay eggs and provide meat for food. Chicken takes 24-26 hours to lay an egg. (Patrick,2025)
Activity: Learners will feed chickens in their natural habitat, then in the classroom learners will identify and label the different body parts on a chicken. (Feathers, beak, claws.)
Bees
Concept: Bees collect flower nectar, then store it in their honey stomach, back to the hive where they pass it to the younger bees. The nectar is broken down into sugar and thicken. Finally, the bees store the honey in honeycomb. (Pest World for kids,2025)
Activity: Learners will make a bee and flower craft to show pollination.
Sheep
Concept: Sheep give us wool used for making clothes. Sheep's wool is most important type of wool fibre because it is the most plentiful. (Maji,2023)
Activity: Learners will feel different fabrics (cotton, wool, silk) and identify which comes from animals.
Animals that work for us
Dogs
Guide dogs, watch dogs, sniffer dogs assist people in need.
Social science
Importances of farms to people's lives
Cows
Concept: In villages, cows are part of family farms. They help with ploughing fields and provide manure for crops, huts. Villages in parts of Southeast Asia, African regions like Egypt and Sudan. (Jabbar,1990)
Activity: Learners will make huts out of modelling clay.
Chickens
Concept: When many people farm chickens, it helps the whole community have food and jobs. (Cruz,2024)
Activity: Learners will paint eggshells using primary colours.
Types of farms
Chickens
Concept: Poultry farms raise chickens for eggs and meat. (CWFI,2014)
Activity: Learner sort different farm animals by the type of farm they belong to.
Cows
Concept: Dairy farms raise cows for milk. There are over 270 million cows producing milk across the world. (CWFI,2014)
Activity: Leaners will make a poster showing life on dairy farm
Animals that work for us
Donkeys and Horses
Concept: Donkeys and horses provided transport for people that lived long ago.
Activity: Learners build a donkey craft- Using a template to cut and paste their own donkey. This can be a colour in or paint task.
Activity: Learners use flash cards to learn the correct steps for approaching a horse safely, then have to complete a worksheet based on the sequencing.
Technology
The processing of animal products into finish foods
Bees
Concept: Honey is collected, filtered, and bottled for consumption. (Organic Africa,2022)
Problem: the playground bees lost their habitat. Solution Activity: Learners make a bee hotel from a hollow container filled with bamboo pieces and reeds.
Cows
Concept: Milk is processed in dairy factory. Approximately 3.4 million litres of milk have been produced in South Africa. (Lacto data,2024)
Problem: the tuck shop ran out of ice cream. Solution Activity: Learners will visit a dairy farm to understand how dairy products are made. (Irene Farm- Centurion)
Chicken
Concept: Processed poultry meat- Chicken meat is cleaned, cooked, and packaged for sale. (UNECE,2015)
Activity: Learners will sequence pictures of from the live chicken to chicken meat on table.
Sheep
Concept: Wool is sheared, cleaned, and spin into yarn. It takes approximately months for the process to be completed, according to (Tierra wools,2024)
Problem: the learners cannot identify the correct material used for winter clothes. Solution Activity: Learners need to stick strips of wool on paper to create a jersey.