Amazing Mammals
Posted by Faith BarbutoDown in Kindergarten we spend quite a bit of time on the most diverse animal group, mammals. Call us biased but we think the group deserves it. We studied mammal adaptations from living in trees, to living underground, to living in pouches! Talk about a wide range, mammals can be as small as a pygmy lemur that could fit in your hand to the largest animal that ever lived, a blue whale.
A blue whale is approximately 90 feet long, but exactly what does that look like? In a cross curricular activity, we honed our measuring skills by measuring a blue whale with a non-standard unit of measure, our arm spans. Next, we talked about mammal intelligence, learning how mammals use the environment around them to help them survive. During our next Makerspace activity we took to the parking lot and dug caves into the snow, feeling for ourselves how much warmer we felt when protected from the wind. With weather like this, sleeping in a cave for the next few weeks doesn’t seem like a bad idea. Finally we focused on the primate group, learning how lemurs, monkeys and apes have many human traits. To really appreciate our opposable thumbs we spent some time trying to do everyday tasks without them. After trying to write, cut and button without using these digits we all agree … thumbs up for opposable thumbs!
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