How minibeasts move
How minibeasts move: crawling (ants, beetles), flying (butterflies, bees), slithering (worms, slugs), jumping (grasshoppers, fleas), burrowing (earthworms). Counting legs as a first step toward grouping creatures.
What a learner can do afterwards
- Describe at least three different ways minibeasts move such as crawling, flying, and slithering
- Match a minibeast to its way of moving, for example grasshoppers jump and worms slither
- Count legs on a minibeast and notice that ants have six while spiders have eight
The lesson
Minibeasts move in many different ways. Some crawl. Some fly. Some slither, jump, or dig. Watching how it moves helps you know what it is.
Zara watches a grasshopper in the grass. Its back legs are long and strong. It jumps high into the air. Then a worm wriggles by. It has no legs at all. It slithers along the ground.
Look at how a minibeast moves before you name it. A jumper has strong back legs. A slitherer has no legs at all.
Minibeasts move in different ways: crawling, flying, slithering, jumping, and burrowing.
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Where this leads
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