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Animals and creatures that help us - Coggle Diagram
Animals and creatures that help us
Natural science
Animals that give us clothes
Animals help us by giving us different materials. For example, sheep give us wool to make clothes. (DBE, 2025)
Activity: Experiment- blow up a balloon. Rub the balloon against wool fabric, the balloon becomes static. Hold the balloon above small pieces of paper and they will stick to the balloon. (MocomiKids, 2014)
Animals that give us food
Animals help us by giving us different food. For example, bees give us honey and we get meat from animals to eat as food. (DBE, 2025)
Compare different types of meat that we get from animals. Red meat (beef, pork, goat and lamb), poultry(chicken and turkey) and seafood (fish, crustaceans, molluscs). (Masterclass, 2021)
Social science
Conservation
It is important to help animals because they also help us. We can do this by protecting animals and their habitats to ensure that they are not harmed, that way they can still help us. Link to recycling. (Born Free, n.d)
Activity: Walk around the school and identify as many different animals habitats as you can find.
Communication before telephones
Animals were helpful to people before phones existed because they could be used to communicate. For example, carrier pigeons carried important messages to people and then they would return home. (Balogh, 16.10.2024)
Activity: How people lived long ago. I will organise for a local pigeon fancier to come to the school and demonstrate how pigeons can carry a message from one person to another.
Cause and effect
Human activity can be harmful to animals that help us. For example, bees are dying out because humans destroy their habitats and because farmers use pesticides that kill them. (DBE, 2025)
Activity: Divide class into pairs. Each pair receives flash cards with a right or a responsibility on it. They discuss the right or the responsibility and then decide what matches it. For example, when they get a card with the right "I have the right to eat food" they can discuss that the responsibility fir that right is to not waste food and appreciate where it comes from and which animal gives it to us. (Britannica Kids, n.d)
Technology
Processing of things we get from animals
Things made by animals can be changed during processing to be helpful or useful to us. For example, beeswax made by bees can be made into soap or candles. Wool from sheep can be used to make yarn which can be used to knit sweaters. Milk from cows gets pasturised so we can buy it in the shop and drink it. (DBE, 2025)
Activity: Watch a video of how milk goes through the pasturising process. Organise pictures of the different stages in the right order and give a short description of what is happening. (Organic Valley, 2019)
Animals that work for us
Animals can carry people or items form one place to another. For example, horses and donkeys (CAPS, 2011)
Activity: Using the technological design process, design and make your own horse cart to carry items from one place to another. (DIY Projects, 2021)