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Animals and creatures that help us. - Coggle Diagram
Animals and creatures that help us.
Natural Science
Inquiry activity:
learners design a simple invention based on an animal trait (e.g. shark skin inspired swimwear).
Concept:
Animals have symbolic roles in cultures.
Symbols of power and strength. Spiritual guides. Helpers.
Inquiry Activities:
learners will observe and draw animals that help us. they will describe adaptions and also create food posters from animals.
Concept:
Animals provide products like milk, eggs and wool and it has adaptations for survival.
(chickens' eggs, meat) (cows' beef, milk, leather)sheep lamb, wool) (pigs' pork) (Harper, 2020)
Technology
Sub-topic 1:
Animal roles in different cultures.
Cows represent purity and abundance in Hinduism (Doniger, 2014). Lions represent strength and royalty in African Culture (Mbiti,1990). Dogs symbolize loyalty and bravery in many societies (Serpell, 1996).
Sub-topic 2:
Animals in ecosystems.
Wolves, elephant
Sub-topic 1:
Animals that give us food/clothes.
chickens, cows, sheep and pigs (Harper, 2020)
Sub-topic 1:
Animal-inspired technologies
Robotics, Medical Technologies, Energy and efficiency.
Inquiry Activity:
Research how animals is viewed in a SA culture.
Inquiry Activity:
Create a mini garden to observe how animals impact plant growth.
Social Science
Concept:
The role of animals like bees in maintaining ecosystems.
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Contribution of bees are over 75% of world crop species (Klein, 2007),Bees are primary pollinators of many plant species and they importance in the ecosystem (Garbuzov, 2013)
Sub-topic 2:
Working animals.
Dogs, Horses, Donkeys (Serpell, 1996)
Concept:
The role of animals like guide dogs, police dogs in public service.
Police dogs detect narcotics, explosive, and track suspects (Kaldenbach, 2016)
Inquiry activity:
To Invite a guest speaker to come and speak with the learners what the role of the dog is and show them some things the dog can be for example a skit showing how these animals help people.
Concept
: inventions inspired by animal features (e.g. planes from birds.)
Inquiry activity:
Explore images of vet tools, and explain how each one work.
Concept:
Use of tools like microchips, x-rays and smart feeding systems in animal care.
Sub-topic 2
: Technological tools to care for animals.
Wearable sensor (Wickens, 2019) Microchipping (AVMA, 2020)