Needs of Living Things

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• What do we really need?

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Can you remember the things that we really need
to survive?
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• Thats right, we need
• Food
• Shelter
• Water and
• Air (Oxygen)

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Last lesson we looked at food and the different
kinds of food that other animals eat. Today we
will be looking at shelter.
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a home, or shelter.
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There are many different kinds of shelters that
people all over the world use. Can you think of
some? Get your teacher to write some of your
ideas on the board.
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House
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Units
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House Inuit (Eskimo) Style
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House on stilts
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a stone house
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a mud house
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There are lots of different types of houses that
people live in. There are also lots of different
homes for animals. Lets take a look at the homes
for the animals in our book.
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A koala lives in a eucalypt (gum) tree.
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While this doesnt provide much protection from
the wind and rain, it does keep the koala safe
from predators like dingos and foxes.
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A bandicoot lives in a burrow underground. This
provides a warm, dry place to sleep and keeps it
safe from predators.
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A rainbow lorikeet nests in tree hollows.
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These provide a warm dry nest and the small
openings protects it from predators at night.
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An echidna can live in a burrow or even a hollow
log. It needs shelter from the rain and wind,
but its sharp quills are all the protections
from predators that it needs.
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Squirrel Gliders also live in warn dry tree
hollows, like this one.
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A squirrel glider is nocturnal, which means its
awake at night, so it requires protection from
predators while it sleeps during the daytime.
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Most animals need some form of shelter or
protection. Can you think of some animals that
dont need shelter?
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BOOKWORK TIME Can you cut out the different types
of shelter and match them to each animal? Glue
each one to the animals page, but be very
careful with your glue, you dont want to stick
the pages of your book together. When you have
finished that task, you can draw a picture of
your home on the back page.