Videos:
- The three different ways mammals give birth
Videos:
Ladybugs bertelur dan melalui proses metamorphosis. Bila menetas, dipanggil larvae. Larvae ini membesar dengan cepat dan bersalin kulit beberapa kali. Bila cukup besar, mereka menekapkan ekor mereka ke daun, dan membentuk pupa. Dalam seminggu dua, pupa bertukar menjadi ladybug dewasa. Lihat sayap ladybug dewasa ini. Apa yang kita boleh lihat? Simetri. Apa itu simetri?
Life Cycle Nomenclature Cards at The Helpful Garden
Number Matching Game at The Helpful Garden
فَأَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلطُّوفَانَ وَٱلْجَرَادَ وَٱلْقُمَّلَ وَٱلضَّفَادِعَ وَٱلدَّمَ ءَايَٰتٍ مُّفَصَّلَٰتٍ فَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ وَكَانُوا۟ قَوْمًا مُّجْرِمِينَ
(Allah berfirman): Kami pun menghantarkan kepada mereka taufan, dan belalang, dan kutu, dan katak, dan darah, sebagai tanda-tanda dan bukti yang jelas nyata, maka mereka juga tetap berlaku sombong takbur dan menjadi kaum yang menderhaka.
From National Geographic
A plague of locusts is a devastating natural disaster. These infestations have been feared and revered throughout history. Unfortunately, they still wreak havoc today.
Locusts are related to grasshoppers and the two insects look similar. However, locust behavior can be something else entirely. Locusts are sometimes solitary insects with lifestyles much like grasshoppers. But locusts have another behavioral phase called the gregarious phase. When environmental conditions produce many green plants and promote breeding, locusts can congregate into thick, mobile, ravenous swarms.
Locust swarms devastate crops and cause major agricultural damage and attendant human misery—famine and starvation. They occur in many parts of the world, but today locusts are most destructive in sustenance farming regions of Africa.
The desert locust is notorious. Found in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, they inhabit some 60 countries and can cover one-fifth of Earth’s land surface. Desert locust plagues may threaten the economic livelihood of one-tenth of the world’s humans.
A desert locust swarm can be 460 square miles (1,200 square kilometers) in size and pack between 40 and 80 million locusts into less than half a square mile (one square kilometer).
Each locust can eat its weight in plants each day, so a swarm of such size would eat 423 million pounds (192 million kilograms) of plants every day.
Like the individual animals within them, locust swarms are typically in motion and can cover vast distances. In 1954, a swarm flew from northwest Africa to Great Britain. In 1988, another made the lengthy trek from West Africa to the Caribbean.
Bacaan sendiri:
Like Locusts
Locusts moving in swarms
Vetebrate / Invetebrate Bila kita belajar tentang haiwan, kita panggilnya Zoology. Cuba sebut ‘Zoology’. Ada banyak jenis haiwan di muka bumi ni. Berjuta! Zoologist dan saintis-saintis lain menyusun (oganised) haiwan-haiwan ni dalam kumpulan. Dua kumpulan besar haiwan adalah haiwan bertulang belakang dan tidak bertulang belakang.
Kumpulan pertama adalah kumpulan bertulang belakang. Vertebrate. Cuba sebut ‘Vertebrate’. Semua haiwan ni nampak lain antara satu sama lain, tetapi ada satu persamaan antara mereka. Semua haiwan ini ada benda macam ni (tunjuk gambar) dalam badan mereka. Ini adalah tulang-tulang. Tulang boleh dijumpai di dalam badan. Kita pun ada tulang belakang. Cuba rasa?
Terdapat banyak haiwan dalam kumpulan ini, dan saintis membahagikan mereka kepada lima kumpulan lagi. (Tunjuk kad-kad kumpulan, namakan dan tunjuk tulang belakang).
Kad-kad vertebrate dan invertebrate. Match tulang dan haiwan.
Kita akan mula dengan invertebrate. Haiwan-haiwan ini juga dibahagikan kepada beberapa kumpulan juga. Mollusks, annelids, insects & arachnids.
Apa yang membuatkan serangga itu serangga? Kita ada klu untuk membantu kita mengenal serangga. Serangga ada 6 kaki. Labah-labah ada 8 kaki. Jadi jika ada 6 kaki, itu ialah serangga. Klu satu lagi adalah, bahagian badan. Spiders ada dua bahagian badan manakala serangga ada 3 bahagian badan; head, thorax, abdomen. Contoh serangga termasuklah rama-rama, lebah, beetles dan semut.
Kajian serangga dipanggil entomology. Saintis yang mengkaji serangga dipanggil entomologist. Mereka mengatakan ada lebih 30 juta jenis spesies serangga di dalam dunia ni! Serangga yang paling laju adalah dragonfly. Serangga yang paling panjang adalah seperti walking stick. Serangga yang balik berat adalah Goliath Beetle dari Afrika.
Dalam kitar hayatnya dari telur ke dewasa, serangga-serangga ini berubah bentuk dan ini dipanggil metamorphosis. Amfibian juga melalui proses metamorphosis ni. They do not look like the adults when they hatch from the egg.
Jom lihat gambar-gambar arthopods (atau serangga).
Insect X-ray Pictures – These can be found in many science catalogs for children. Children match the insect picture to its x-ray picture. (Takde *muka nanges*)
Butterflies – Using close pins, coffee filters, liquid paint, and pipe cleaners children can make butterflies. Show the children how to spray just a little bit of the paint on the filters and watch the colors blend. Too much paint will make the filter wings rip.
Stain Glass Butterflies – Tissue paper, watered down glue, and 2 pieces of black butterfly shapes cut from construction paper, children can glue the tissue paper in between the black outline butterfly shapes. Remind them about the ‘stained glass windows’ that we talked about with Europe.
Paper Insect Collection Tutorial (to frame and display) at the Paper Mama.
Montessori Inspired Insects Activity at PinayHomeschooler
Insect Unit with Free Printables at Every Star is Different
Insect Posts at Gift of Curiosity
Collections of Insects at Homeschoolgiveaways
Coloring Bugs at A Little Pinch of Perfect
Bugs at Trillium Montessori
Bugs at Playdough to Plato
Bugs at 123 Homeschool for Me
Insect Theme Lesson Plans
Bugs Theme at Prekinders
Bugs at 123child
Insects at Pre-K Pages
Insects at First School
Montessori Inspired Insect Unit at Living Montessori Now
Montessori Inspired Insects Unitat Mumma Diaries
Insect Unit at Inspired Montessori
Insect Activities at Mama’s Happy Hive
Bugs and Insects posts at 1+1+1=1
Insects at Sugar, Spice & Glitter
Bugs Theme at Homeschool Den
Ladybug Fly Away Home at Nurturing Learning
Ants Activities for Preschoolers & Good Bug Bad Bug at Carrots are Orange
Taxonomy and Animal Kingdom Arthopods at Bloom Montessori
Watch:
Vertebrates & Invertebrates
Read:
Vertebrate Basic by Biology For Kids
Animal Classification
Vertebrate Chart
The Animal Kingdom by Kidport
Animal Groups – Vertebrate & Invertebrate
Animal Kingdom at Barry4Kids
Pengelasan Haiwan – Nexus Xpress
Living Things – Ensiklopedia Mini Sains
Dimensi Sains al-Quran
Pengelasan Haiwan
Pengelasan Haiwan II
Pengelasan Haiwan Bertulang Belakang Vertebrata
Blog
Introduce Invertebrates and Vertebrates to Kids
Montessori Cards: Vertebrates-Invertebrates
Animal Kingdom Notebooks by OurWorldWideClassroom
Animal Classification Wall Chart & Lapbook (link on the page)
The Study of Animals Series at Enchanted Homeschooling Mom
Vertebrates and Invertebrates – Montessori style at Nurturing Learning
Free Printable Vertebrates Dominoes at Deceptively Educational
A unit on Vertebrates and Invertebrates
Lesson plan
Zoology by All in One Homeschool
Further Read:
Invertebrate vs Vertebrate
Shell Activities for Kids by Gift of Curiosity
Seashell Identification Lesson
Snails by Montessori Mom
Montessori Coral Reef Field Guide Index
Seashells Identification
Seashells Identification
Seashells Pictorial
Seashells Lesson Plan
Seashells – Links for a Montessori Unit Study by montessori21stcentury
Haris paling suka ni. Identify animal tracks.
Read:
Animal tracks: Preschool and kindergarten science activities
Watch:
Curious George on Animal Tracks
Games:
Track Quiz for Beginners
Tracking Game
More links:
Usborne Quicklinks to lots of animal tracks related
Animal Track Final at Animal Network