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Robyn Jones
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    I chose to look at the animals in the cold activities. I would start by reading the book ‘The Mitten’ (https://youtu.be/uVdHH-hGBQw) to engage students at the beginning of the lesson. We would talk about how the animals in the story used the mitten to stay warm, I would then ask if students knew any examples of how animals keep themselves warm. Then there would be a class discussion about how there are different kinds of weather in different places and that animals need certain features to be able to survive in their climate. I would then show students the pictures of the penguin and polar bear provided in the activity set while they talk about how they stay warm in the cold (fur or feathers, fat, and grease layer on skin). Then I would ask students why they think the polar bear is white? Why might that be a good thing for an animal who lives in a snowy environment? Students could then create paintings of the penguin and polar bear on a snowy background, maybe even try to camouflage the animals in the background of the painting.

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