Ask the students what the essential components of habitat are again: For the purposes of this activity, we will assume that the moose have enough space in which to live. We are emphasizing food, water and shelter. The moose the ones need to find food, water and shelter in order to survive.
When a moose is looking for water, it should clamp its hands over its mouth. When it is looking for food, it should clamp its hands over its stomach. When it is looking for shelter, it holds its hands together over its head. A moose can choose to look for any one of its needs during each round or segment of the activity; the moose cannot, however, change what it is looking for—for example, when it sees what is available—during that round. It can change what it is looking for in the next round, if it survives. The twos, threes and fours are the food, water and shelter-—components of habitat.
Each student gets to choose at the beginning of each round which component he or she will be during that round. The students depict which component they are in the same way the moose show what they are looking for; that is, hands on stomach for food, etc. Playing the Game The activity starts with all players lined up on their respective lines moose on one side; habitat components on the other side and with their backs to the students at the other line.
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The facilitator or teacher begins the first round by asking all of the students to make their signs—each moose deciding what it is looking for, each habitat component deciding what it is. Give the students a few moments to get their hands in place—over stomachs, mouths, or over their heads.
As you look at the two lines of students, you will normally see a lot of variety—with some students water, some food, some shelter. As the activity proceeds, sometimes the students confer with each other and all make the same sign.
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For example, all students in habitat might decide to be shelter. That could represent a drought year with no available food or water. If students switching symbols in the middle of a round is a problem, you can avoid that by having stacks of three different tokens, or pieces of colored paper, to represent food, water and shelter at both the habitat and moose ends of the field. At the start of each round, players choose one of the symbols before turning around to face the other group.
They are very tall and stand on very skinny legs for their body size. Moose are so tall that they stand tall above an average grown man. They have built-in snowshoes with their wide, split hooves and extra toes called dew claws.
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This allows their long legs to move easily through the deep snow or muddy ground that is common in their habitat. Moose have a horse-like long face and a bag of skin hanging from their face like a goat. This is called a bell , and scientists aren't really sure what it's used for. They think it might help a bull male attract a cow female since males have larger bells than females.
Male bull moose can grow very large antlers that they shed yearly.
Some antler racks have been measured at 6 feet in width! This is greater than the height of the average man! Moose live in the forests and wetlands of northern latitudes in North America Canada, Alaska, and New England, for example and other places around the world like Russia and Scandinavia. In the summer months, moose can be found swimming in lakes and ponds and eating aquatic plants. They are good swimmers, and they can even hold their breath for up to 30 seconds underwater.
On land, they've been clocked running up to 35 miles an hour to escape predators, like wolves. When not threatened by predators, a moose can keep a trot of about 20 miles an hour, which is a speed you might reach on your bike if you went down a really big hill! Moose don't live in family groups.
Males usually live alone, and females will live with their babies, though they might all be seen together in the same feeding ground. In the fall between September and October, bull moose start bellowing making noise.
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This noise attracts mates, and female moose will usually have calves in the spring. The calves will stay with the cows female moose until the next mating season. In addition to bellowing, bull moose may rut, or smash antlers with another bull moose to demonstrate who is the strongest male. A moose is the largest of the deer family and eats only plants. Found in northern climates like Canada, Alaska, and Russia, moose can live to be 25 years old and they have distinctive physical features such as long, skinny legs, a bag of skin hanging from their throat called a bell, and a large antler rack on males that make them easy to identify.
Female cows will have calves in the spring that will stay with them until the next fall. To unlock this lesson you must be a Study. Login here for access.
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Start with flour for a base, include measuring cups, spoons, sifters, cookie cutters, or anything you can find to make it fun. If you are feeling really daring, give your child some water to add another dimension to their sensory play. You can get shower curtain liners at Dollar Tree, they are thin, but depending on the activity I can usually get several uses before I need to replace it.
Give your child cupcake wrappers, a muffin tin, plastic knife, beans or beads, a rolling pin and play dough. Help you child create pretend muffins. Play dough is also one of the best fine motor skill building activities you can do. Let them make cupcakes!