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The Association of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) promotes the study of animal behaviour. One of their aims is to encourage the teaching of animal behaviour in schools. This collection of resources focuses on various animals and looks at certain behaviours and what we can learn from them. The teachers' notes provide an outline of the classroom activities and contain films, photographs, activity sheets, presentations and background information. The resources are: *Animals on the move *Crawling caterpillars *Keeping ourselves safe near dogs *Mini-animals *Birds' nests: marvels of architecture and design *Finding food *Let's ask the animals
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Mini-animals
Aimed at Key Stage One and lower Key Stage Two, this resource links to the topics of minibeasts and habitats. An introductory presentation focuses on 20 common mini-animals and looks at ways of identifying them such as the number of legs, colour, size and habitat.
The resource suggests activities and...
Parental Behaviour of Blue Tits
This resource, aimed at Key Stages One and Two, links to the topic areas of animals, habitats, and adaptation. It includes a film showing footage of the behaviour of parental blue tits and a series of activity worksheets. These look at several aspects of blue tits and their behaviour including:
*What happens...
Finding Food
Aimed at Key Stage Two, this resource provides investigations, practical activities, worksheets and puzzles on the topic areas of animals and habitats.
Investigations look at food preferences in birds, finding prey and finding food for offspring, and lead into many follow on investigations.
There are...
Let's Ask the Animals
This video, aimed at primary level, looks at farm animals and the processes they share with humans. Comparing basic needs, including companianship, nutrition, exercise, keeping clean, it finds many similarities.
The resource links to the topic areas of animals, including humans and PSHE, encouraging...