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Animals and Creatures That Help Us - Coggle Diagram
Animals and Creatures That Help Us
Natural Science
Subtopic 1: Farm Animals and Their Products
Key Concept:
Certain animals provide us with food and things like cows provide milk, sheep provide wool, and bees provide honey
Inquiry-Based Activity:
Students examine pictures of farm animals and sort them according to what they provide for us. They may also taste or observe different products like honey or wool to link the animals with their uses.
Skill focus: observation, classification, comparison
Subtopic 2: Caring for Living Things
Inquiry-Based Activity
: Students observe as a class pet or school garden insect is cared for. They pose questions such as "What does it need in order to survive?" and "How do we protect animals?"
(Skill focus: inquiry, responsibility, communication)
Key Concept:
All creatures need food, water, shelter, and care in order to stay healthy.
Social Science
Subtopic 1: Animals in Our Community
Inquiry-Based Activity:
Students interview a community member or family member about an animal that helps them like a farm worker, police officer, or pet owner and then report in class.
Skill focus: communication, interviewing, reporting
Key Idea:
Animals play an important role in helping people in society, like work horses, police dogs, and guide dogs.
Subtopic 2: People and Animals in Culture and History
Inquiry-Based Activity:
Students research or discuss stories in their culture that feature animals of African fables, such as Why the Lion Roars. They can dramatize or draw scenes from the stories.
Skill emphasis: storytelling, cultural awareness, imagination
Key Concept:
People in different cultures use animals for food, clothes, and ceremonies. Animals are also used symbolically in mythology and legends.
Technology
Subtopic 1: Designing for Animals
Key Concept: We can design and build shelters or tools that help animals feel safe.
Inquiry-Based Activity:
Students design and build a small animal shelter or bird feeder using recyclable materials (cardboard, paper, and plastic). They explain their design and observe its success.
(Skill focus: designing, building, testing)
Topic 2: Tools and Machines That Help Humans Work with Animals
Inquiry Activity
: Students explore photographs or short videos of different machines farmers use. They discuss how such devices ease and safeguard against work.
Skill focus:
identifying, analysing, problem-solving Values and Attitudes For All Subjects Respect and compassion for living things. Sense of responsibility in maintaining animals and the environment. Respect for the way humans and animals are interdependent.
Key Idea:
Technology helps humans look after animals and extract goods from them (e.g., milking machines and animal grooming machinery).