In this episode, you’ll learn:
- How and WHY animals need food, water, oxygen and space
- What herbivores, carnivores, insectivores, and omnivores are
- How to look at teeth for evidence of what an animal eats
- How the form of a structure follows its function
Discover the basic needs of animals (food, water, oxygen, and space) and look for evidence to find out what an animal eats: meat, plants, bugs, or a mixture.
Featuring “The Chimichanga Song,” one of Lucas’ biggest crowd-pleasers, you know that carnivores, herbivores, and insectivores will all ADORE this introduction to the life sciences! Best for grades 2-5 but younger audiences will enjoy it too.
- DIY Animal “Diary” Have your kids learn a few basic facts about a favorite animal, plug the facts into a Google Survey, and they get a fun animal story using their answers. Your kids will have so much fun with this!
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- Find more learning activities on the BSS resource page
- Oxygen: a gas produced by plants that animals require to turn their food into usable energy
- Habitat: the space an animal uses to meet its basic needs
- Carnivore: an organism that eats meat (generally mammals, birds, amphibians, and other vertebrates)
- Insectivore: an animal that consumes insects and other invertebrates
- Herbivore: an animal that consumes plants
- Omnivore: an animal that consumes plants and other animals
