Why Do Some Animals Live in Groups?

LIFE SCIENCES

Curiosity trigger

The students watch videos about how elephants and meerkats care for safety in their families and how group life is organized in a beehive; next, the students engage in a debate and draw conclusions from the pictures they have just seen.

Curriculum and Skills

Work and Life Skills:

Critical thinking and drawing conclusion

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Authors

Author: Rafał Garlacz
Methodology: Agnieszka Staroń
Translation: Paweł Fabrowicz
Producer: Klaudia Chmura

Source

This is a modified version of a lesson plan created by the Children’s University Foundation under the CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 license. Photo by Rod Waddington, Mountain Gorilla, Bwindi, Uganda, published on flickr under the CC-BY 2.0 license.

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