Surviving and hiding
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Choose three living things near your home. For each, write one problem it has in hot weather or cold weather and how it copes.
Answers differ, for example: a street cat finds shade under a car at noon.
2
Draw a penguin and write two adaptations around it.
Two from: tough cool feet, rocking back on heels, feathers and fat, huddling.
3
With a grown-up, look at a garden or a balcony. Find a small animal or an insect whose colour matches where it sits. Describe it.
Answers differ. The child should say the colour matches the surface and name who it hides from.
4
Write three questions about bats. Start them with How, Why and What.
Answers differ, for example: How do bats find insects in the dark?
5
Explain to someone at home what a predator and prey are, using a cat and a mouse.
The cat hunts, so it is the predator. The mouse is hunted, so it is the prey.