Plants and Animals Live Together LOOKING AROUND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES - Plants and Animals Live Together

Remember you wrote about your plant friend. Now try and draw your plant friend. Use different coloured small dots in your drawing to show the places where you spotted animals, birds or insects.

Close your eyes and try to listen to the sounds of birds.
Do you hear any bird sounds?
Can you see which birds are making these sounds?

How many of these animals have you seen? Watch out for them!

What colour is the soil under your feet?

What is soil made up of?

Recall and write about how animals, birds and insects rely on plants. Which one was your favourite example?

Which animals, birds and insects did you notice around plants?

During which month did fresh new leaves appear on the plant that you were observing?

Do you hear more bird sounds In the early morning?
In the afternoon?
In the evening?

(i) Names of two animals that you observed near or on plants.
(ii) Describe the shape, size and colours of these animals.
(iii) Guess why these animals were staying near these plants?
(iv) What other interesting things did you notice about these animals

What was the colour and texture of the two soil specimens that you collected during the previous activity? In which month did you pick them up? Did they smell different and can you describe the smells?

Stand near your plant friend and look around. How many different animals can you spot? Describe them in words and fill in the table.

I saw...... (Describe)	It was on....	What was it doing?
A small hoping insect	The grass	Jumping around
A thin plant that curls	Another plant nearby	Nothing
A black bird