Dinnertime for animals

Background knowledge
✩
When animals feel hungry, they need to eat. Food provides the animals with
carbohydrates, faats, and proteins, which are important nutrients they need to
grow and live. Some animals have to hunt for their food while other animals
eat mostly plants. Plants can make their own food using sunlight and gases
from the air and water. Animals that eat plants are called herbivores. Animals
that eat herbivores are called carnivores.

Science activity
Can you spot the herbivores in this group of
animals? Write their names in the box. Herbivores

Spider ....................................

Slug ....................................

....................................

....................................

....................................

Woodlouse

Science investigation
Caterpillar Go
Findtosome
website 31-1 to
pictures to
compare the skull and
Thrush teeth of carnivores and
herbivores. How do they
differ? Draw a picture
Ladybug that compares their
teeth. Make paper
Deer puppets of carnivore and
herbivore dinosaurs
herbivore dinosaursand
act out
from a play31-2.
website that shows
Rabbit
how dinosaurs
Write and act eat.
out a
play that shows how
dinosaurs eat.

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31 Dinnertime for animals
Background knowledge
✩
When animals feel hungry, they need to eat. Food provides the animals with
carbohydrates, faats, and proteins, which are important nutrients they need to
grow and live. Some animals have to hunt for their food while other animals
eat mostly plants. Plants can make their own food using sunlight and gases
from the air and water. Animals that eat plants are called herbivores. Animals
that eat herbivores are called carnivores.

Science activity
Can you spot the herbivores in this group of
animals? Write their names in the box. Herbivores

Spider
Slug
....................................
Woodlouse
....................................
Slug
Caterpillar
....................................
Deer
....................................
Rabbit
....................................

Woodlouse

Science investigation
Caterpillar The child should
understand that all
Thrush living things depend on
plants, either directly or
indirectly.
Ladybug

Deer

Rabbit

The child should understand that all living things

depend on plants, either
© Dorling directly
Kindersley Limitedor indirectly. On
[2010]
website 31-1, note the particular shape of the teeth