Animals that grow up in families
(Australian Curriculum: Science Year Two)
A teaching slideshow for young learners
Created by Queensland Museum
Strategic Learning February 2012
(Version 1.0)
Animals that grow up in familiesYear 2 Australian Curriculum: Science links
Science Understanding
•Biological sciences
– Living things grow, change and have offspring similar to
themselves (ACSSU030)
Science as a Human Endeavour
•Nature and development of science
– Science involves asking questions about, and describing changes
in, objects and events (ACSHE034)
•Use and influence of science
– People use science in their everyday lives, including when caring
for their environment and living things (ACSHE035)
Science Inquiry Skills
•Questioning and predicting
– Respond to and pose questions, and make predictions about
familiar objects and events (ACSIS037)
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Slide 4-Babbitt family tree by FrodoBabbs http://www.flickr.com/photos/36041246@N00/3344881664/
Slide 5,33,42 Red Bull Ant by eyeweed http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyeweed/3553113217/
Slide 17 magpie nest by Bryant Olsen http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryanto/4608618479/
Slide 18 Australian Magpie-lark chicks by Stephen Barnett
http://www.flickr.com/photos/httpwwwflickrcomphotostopend/2079462695/in/photostream/
Slide 25 Australian magpie wb by Lip Kee http://www.flickr.com/photos/lipkee/3043933366/
Slide 27 Feathertail glider 1 by Doug Beckers http://www.flickr.com/photos/dougbeckers/3477176577/
Slide 29 Acrobates_pygmaeus.jpg by vmuseum http://www.flickr.com/photos/61365736@N00/416126292/
Slides 35-42 Myrmecia brevinoda and Cataglyphis velox 24 photos from Mckillaboy’s photostream by Tim Keppens
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mckillaboy/sets/72157616225824551/with/3617234022/
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Animals that grow up in
families
CC:FrodoBabbs
QM
Animals that
grow up in
families
Click on an animal
picture to see how
it grows in a family
CC: eyeweed
Dogs
Lexie is a puppy.
In this photo she is
8 weeks old.
How do you
think she has
changed since
she was born?
What does she
need to grow?
NS
NS
This is Lexie when she was first born. Her
eyes are not yet open. What else do you
notice about Lexie?
Lexie’s mum licks
her puppies to
keep them clean
and healthy.
NS
Lexie and her
mum both love
cuddles.
NS
NS
Lexie at 2 weeks old.
What do you think is happening in the photo?
Lexie at 6
weeks old.
NS
What do you
notice these
puppies are doing?
NS
Dogs are family animals.
In the wild they live in
families called packs.
NS
All Lexie’s needs are
met, so she grows into
a healthy young dog
ready to leave her
parents and join her
new family.
NS
Now Lexie is an adult dog and is old enough to
have a family of her own.
CC: Jen Rossey
She will look after them so that they will
grow to become adult dogs too.
Lexie’s mum is
much older now.
We call her a
mature dog.
All living things
grow, change
and get old.
Dogs- life stages
1
3
NS
newborn
adult
puppy
mature
2
4
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Magpies
NS
Magpies
When mother and
father magpie are
ready to have their
young, the mother
makes a safe place
to lay her eggs.
NS
What do human parents do when they are going to
have a baby?
Mother magpie lays
3-6 brown speckled
light blue or green
eggs and sits on
them for about 20
days until they
hatch.
Father magpie
feeds the mother
while she is on the
nest.
Bryant Olsen
While the
chicks are in
the nest,
mother is kept
very busy
giving them
food. The
father and
other family
members help
too.
Stephen Barnett
They are very protective and fathers often swoop
when they think their babies could be in danger.
When the chicks are 4 weeks old and have grown
enough, they begin to try to fly. Their parents
keep close to them. Why?
NS
When a young child is first learning to walk,
what do human parents do?
NS
Even though the chicks can fly, the parents still feed
their squawking babies. The babies follow mum and
dad around squawking for food.
NS
NS
After watching the older birds they learn to find
food for themselves.
When the adults
have more chicks
the next year, the
youngsters also
help to feed the
new babies.
The older birds
will call out to the
other birds when
they find some
food to share or
when there is
danger.
NS
Magpies
When they are 2-3
years old, the chicks
often leave the family
territory to find their
own mate and a place to
raise their own babies.
Australian Magpies
often live to a
mature age of
around 20 years old!
QM
Stages of growth of magpies
egg
chick
S.Barnett
B.Olsen
young
adult
Lip Kee
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Feathertail gliders
QM
Feathertail
gliders belong
to a special
group of
animals which
have a pouch.
Feathertails
also have
special skin on
each side so
they can glide
from branch to
branch.
Doug Beckers
What are baby Feathertails called? How many
babies would this little pouch hold?
The newborn
joeys are very
tiny, with no
hair and eyes
closed. They
stay in mum’s
pouch for
protection
while they grow
and to drink
milk from their
mum.
QM
After about 65 days the
joeys come out of mum’s
pouch but stay in the nest
until they are about 100
days old. By this time they
have more hair and their
eyes have opened.
Vmuseum
Feathertails spend their days in ball-shaped
nests of leaves in safe places like tree hollows.
They come out at night to eat nectar, gum, sap
and insects.
QM
Feather tails live in groups of up to
twenty. They keep each other warm and
warn each other of danger.
Feathertails live
for about 4 years in
the wild.
This is a mature
feathertail glider.
QM
Feathertail glider life stages
1
3
newborn
2
young
mature
adult
QM Photos
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Ants
CC: Eye weed
Ants
Ants grow up in a special type of family called a colony.
Tim Keppens
A young queen ant starts the colony by laying some eggs
in a safe place like under a flat rock. She looks after
these eggs until they change into adult ants to help her.
The first job
for the new ants
is to make the
nest bigger. The
ants dig special
tunnels called
chambers.
These are a bit
like rooms in
your house.
Tim Keppens
Tim Keppens
Tim Keppens
Then the ants do other jobs like taking the new
eggs the queen lays to a room where all the
eggs are kept.
What do you notice about the size of the queen?
The eggs grow
bigger because
the ants feed
them and keep
them clean.
What do you
notice about
the growing
young? Do
they have
legs or eyes?
Tim Keppens
The workers go out and collect food and bring it
back to the nest. They swallow and chew the food
then regurgitate it for the young.
Tim Keppens
If you want to see some video of them feeding the ‘fly’ to their young then click on
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mckillaboy/3766330456/in/set-72157616225824551
When the young grow
bigger they are taken
to another room or
chamber.
The worker ants roll
the grubs in little
stones to make it
easier for them to
spin their cocoon.
Photos byTim Keppens
Inside the
cocoon, the
young change
from a grub or
larva into a an
ant that looks
like the adults.
When they
come out these
new ants then
start to work
with all the
other ants.
Tim Keppens
The ants work
every day until
they die. Worker
ants can live for 2
years. Some queen
ants can live for
around 20 years!
When ants die they
are carried out of the
nest.
Photos by Tim Keppens
Ant stages of growth
eggs
adult
grub or larva
cocoon
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