Summary
A natural-science segment comparing how animals get around — swimming, flying, slithering, hopping, and running. Children observe and sort the many ways animals move. (K-2 NGSS has no animal-locomotion expectation, so no standard is tagged.)
Viewer safety
All ages
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
After watching “How Animals Move” together:
- What are some different ways animals move?
- Which animals fly? Which ones swim?
- How do you move in different ways?
Quick work-a-long
Words to know: move, swim, fly, hop, crawl
Act out three animal movements. Draw one animal and label how it moves.