Animals

Do 4 of the following 6.

1. Meeting an Animal: How should you behave when meeting an animal for the first time? It depends upon whether it is someone’s pet or an animal in the wild. Read about meeting an animal on pg. 153 in “How and why?”. This can be found in the Brownie Girl Scout Handbook.

Visit a veterinarian or animal shelter and learn about the differences between animals that are pets and animals that are wild. Find out what the rules of conduct are around such animals. Find out what dangers there are in approaching wild or pet animals. Make a poster or play about how to treat animals in the neighborhood or in the wild.

2. How They Look: Animals are divided into groups by the kinds of bodies they have and how they live. Can you find animals that match the descriptions below by observing them in your habitat, at the zoo, or in a book?

- Animals that have 2 legs, 4 legs, 6 legs, and 8 legs

- Animals with no legs

- Animals that have fur

- Animals that have lips

- Animals that live in water

- Animals that have antennae

- Animals that have soft, squishy bodies

- Animals with feathers

- Animals with wings but no feathers

- Animals with scales

- Animals that have shells

- Animals with paws, animals with claws, animals with hooves

3. How They Act: Obverse animals at the zoo, in your neighborhood, or on TV. Find out how animals act. Find animals that:

- Eat meat

- Dig

- Fly

- Hop

- Crawl

- Live Underground

- Live up in trees

- Swim

- Run

- Live in groups

- Live alone

- Travel long distances

- Stay close to home

How can you keep a record of this information?

How does the type of bodies that animals have affected the way animals act?

4. Shelter for All: Every animal needs some sort of shelter to protect it from the weather and other animals. The place where a plant or animal lives is called its habitat. It includes space, food, shelter, and a place to raise young. Do the habitat hunt on page 155 of the Brownie Girl Scout Handbook.

5. Animal Sounds: Animals communicate in many different ways. Some touch; some make noise; and some leave a smell. Play animal sounds charade. Have your friends guess what animal you are. Here are some animals to try:

- Chicken

- Bee

- Cricket

- Monkey

- Rattlesnake

- Cat

- Dog

- Lion

- Frog

- Alligator

- Horse

- Whale

- Squirrel

- Fly

- Parrot

- Skunk

- Elephant

- Donkey

- Lizard

- Robin

- Bat

6. Animals in Danger: Many animals need a special habitat to survive. Survival means that an animal can live and raise its young, while also having enough food, water, space, and shelter. When an animal group, called a species, loses animals because there is not enough food, water, space, or shelter, the animal species is endangered. The group of animals can die if there are not enough of them to have families. Once a species disappears, it is extinct. Find out about an animal species that is endangered in your state or area. Find out what people are doing to save it and why. What can you do to help?