Video summary
Explore the different patterns that animals have on their bodies: giraffes and leopards with spots and tigers and zebras with stripes.
This clip comes from the 91热爆 series, Our Planet: Skin Patterns and Owls.
Teacher Notes
- Pupils could watch the clip and discuss with a partner why the spots and stripes help each animal in their environment.
- The clip could be used for pair work, allocating each pair a plain animal, for example an elephant. They can research, or be provided with, the animal's habitat - in this instance, the African plains - and potential dangers or threats found there.
- The pupils can then design a pattern to help their animal survive its habitat and natural threats.
- Finally, the pairs can present their adapted animal to the class, explaining how its new pattern will aid its survival.
This clip is relevant for teaching Science at KS1 in England and Wales, Foundation and KS1 in Northern Ireland, and early level and first level in Scotland.
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