Video summary
What is an insect? A look at the characteristics of an insect, including their legs, wings and their lifestyles.
This short film comes from the 91热爆 series, Our Planet.
Teacher Notes
- This clip could be used to inspire simple acrostic poetry in Literacy, linking with how insects look, move and feel.
- Alternatively it links to symmetry in Mathematics using the butterfly wings, where children could be asked to follow the pattern from one wing onto a blank wing.
- Making sure they are symmetrical, or in music, by choosing and playing appropriate instruments relating to how the animals are moving, eg beating drums for elephants moving or tambourines symbolising butterflies fluttering.
This short film 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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