Crocodiles
SEE THINK WONDER
What do you see in the picture? What do you think is happening and what was the artist trying to tell you with this picture? What does this picture make you wonder about?
Mithila style of folk painting from eastern India https://tarabooks.com/shop/the-crocodile-smile-card/
Mindfulness
a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.
Crocodiles
Crocodiles (subfamily Crocodylinae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia
Crocodiles are reptiles- cold blooded animals
Crocodiles have one of the strongest bites in the world
Most crocodile species have a lifespan of approximately 40 years, however, large species like the saltwater and Nile crocodile have been known to live up to 80 – 100 years.
How to tell the crocodile from an alligator
Female Crocodiles that lay up to 60 eggs at a time
The Egyptian plover (Pluvianus aegyptius), also known as the crocodile bird can sit in the mouth of a crocodile and eats all of the bits of food left over. This helps both animals.
Assignment
Students will draw a picture of a crocodile with its mouth open. Your crocodile should have someting in its mouth.
Crocodiles are hungry hungry reptiles and they love to eat. They also have relationships with plover birds that sit in their mouth to eat all of the bit left in their teeth. This is what is called a symboitic relationship. Both animals benefit from the relationship. Crocodiles keep a healthy mouth and the birds get a nice meal.
We will draw a hungry crocodile. Follow the step by step instrucions to create a crocodile and then give him something to eat or a helper friend in his mouth.
Story time
Drawing a realist Crocodile
Crocodile Math: Bigger than/Less than
=
When two values are equal
we use the "equals" sign
example: 2+2 = 4
<
When one value is smaller than another
we use a "less than" sign
example: 3 < 5
>
When one value is bigger than another
we use a "greater than" sign
example: 9 > 6
Greedy Crocodiles always eat the most of a group. The crocodile opens up his mouth to bite the greatest number o objects.