TOPIC: Learning about living things

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Lesson 1: Animals


Part 1: Basic needs
Living organism have basic needs to live and grow. Basic requirement for animal to live are:

1. Air
2. Water 
3. Food 

What kind of foods animals eat?

• plants (example: grasses, trees, fruits, seeds, leaves, etc)

  

Image courtesy of Kew: Royal Botanic garden

• other animals (examples: chickens, antelopes, birds, etc) 

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Different types of animals:

• Carnivore: only eat other animals (for example: tigers, cheetahs, crocodiles, lions, eagles, frogs, toads, snakes, pelicans, owls, monitor lizards, etc)

       

A video of cheetah hunting and eating steenbok

Cheetah

Tiger     

                       

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A video of tiger eating meat

• Herbivore: only eat plants such as: sheep, cows, horses, deer, antelopes, zebra, buffaloes, beavers, giraffes, goats, gorillas, hippopotamus, etc)  

Antelope

Gorrila

Hippopotamus

Horse

       

Omnivore: eat both other animals and plants such as: pigs, bears, badgers, bears (except pandas and polars), hedgehog, raven, chicken, mice, rats, raccoon, chipmunks, sloths, skunks, cassowaries, opossums, chimpanzees, baboon, squirrels, etc)

                                

Cassowaries  

 

Baboon

Opposum

Hedgehog

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Exercises:

1.   List 5 other animals that belong to these categories:

• Carnivore
• Omnivore
• Herbivore

2.

Part 2: Animals grow
All living things begin life and grow into adulthood. They grow, reproduce and die. In animal kingdom, during this cycle of life, animal:

1. grow in size and weight
2. change as they grow
3. have different name when they were young/babies and when they are adult.

Look at the picture below to see the size, weight, and other changes to the animals. Also noted their different names if they were babies, males, females and adult.

Chicks: a young chickens 

Hen: an adult female chickens 

Cow: an adult female cow

Calf: A young cow 

image from here 

Bitch: A female dog 

Puppy: a young dog 

Ewe: an adult female sheep 

Ram: an adult male sheep

Exercise:
1. What are these animals are called ?

• An adult male cow 
• A young male horse 
• A young/baby cat 
• A young pig
• A female donkey
• A young tiger
• A female lion
• A young goose
• A male ducks
• A female swans

Readings:

Learn more about these living things at :

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnivore
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore

Quotes of the day:

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the condition in which they can learn

Albert Einstein