Summary
“How Do Squirrels Find the Food they Hide?” is a short SciShow Kids science video for the K–5 classroom. It shows how an animal is built to survive in its habitat. Quick to drop into a science lesson, a center, or a few spare minutes before the bell.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
This video shows how an animal is built to survive where it lives.
- What special feature helps the animal in this video survive?
- How does that feature fit the place where the animal lives?
- What would be hard for this animal if it lived somewhere else?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: adaptation, survive, habitat, feature.
Try it: Design an imaginary animal with one feature that helps it survive somewhere cold.