Wednesday 5 November 2014

Animal adaptation - Different Beaks For Different Jobs

Today we were looking at why birds have different sorts of beaks. We used kitchen utensils to imitate a birds beak and the method they use to gather their food.



Filter feeder
Breaking or clipping at shoots and grasses


Using a bristly tongue to drink nectar from a flower
A small sharp beak for picking up seeds and insects






Pushing a long beak down into the ground to search for worms and insects

Follow up activity that we did

6 comments:

  1. After I did the activity I understood clearly why different birds had different shaped beaks.

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  2. doing that was so fun

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  3. It was fun doing the activites and pretending that we had bird beaks

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  4. It was super hard to pick up the bark

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  5. Everyone picked up the rice good

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  6. i wish we could eat the mud cake and the snake lollies
    yum!!!!!!!!

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