NSWTR 2024 HR - Flipbook - Page 24
F TO YEAR 2 SECTION
FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES
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TEACHER-GUIDED QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
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REAL-WORLD
CONNECTIONS
HIDE AND SEEK WITH CATERPILLARS
1. Can you name some insects?
2. What do caterpillars eat? What eats caterpillars?
3. Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Why is a caterpillar important? (food, pollination, egg laying)
4. Using the templates provided, colour one caterpillar so that it is easy for a bird to 昀椀nd and eat. Colour the other
one so that it is hard for a bird to 昀椀nd and eat. What makes them hard or easy to see? Is it better for a caterpillar
to be seen or not seen?
I AM HIDING ON A LEAF
YOU CAN SEE ME ON THIS LEAF
5. Make a caterpillar using a range of material such as coloured pipe cleaners, colourful
strips of paper, popsticks, coloured paper dots and coloured pencils. Place the
caterpillars in an outdoor garden area and discuss whether they might be easily spotted
or easily hidden (camou昀氀aged). Don’t forget to put on a hat and some sunscreen before
heading out doors.
6. Go outside to try to spot living caterpillars. How many were found? Did you see any
other insects? Discuss: How do small insects survive? Which ones were easy to 昀椀nd?
Which ones were hard to 昀椀nd and why? Did the colour help the caterpillar or other
insect survive? Watch the ABC’s bug hunt video with Costa.
7. Introduce the word ‘camou昀氀age’. Read The Mixed up Chameleon by Eric Carle.
8. How do plants and insects help each other? Make a nature drawing of an insect in the
garden on a plant that shows how they may help each other. Does the plant provide
protection or food for the insect? If it provides food, what type: nectar, leaves, fruit?
What does the insect do for the plant?
SPECIES SURVIVAL – MORE THAN JUST SUSTAINABILITY
SAFETY FIRST –
TELL STUDENTS
TO WEAR A HAT
AND PUT ON SOME
SUNSCREEN BEFORE
HEADING OUTDOORS
TO PLACE THEIR
CATERPILLARS IN
THE GARDEN OR
WHEN ON THE BUG
HUNT. REMIND
THEM NOT TO TOUCH
ANY ANIMALS AND
TO FOLLOW TEACHER
INSTRUCTIONS.
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