Science · Kindergarten to Grade 3–4
Meat, or plants?
What an animal eats is written on its mouth.
One animal at a time, your child looks at its mouth and taps what it eats: meat, plants or both. Each answer comes with one true fact about that animal.
- Kindergarten to Grade 3–4
- 8 min
- Nothing to prepare
- On the screen
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Is it a good fit?
- Ready if Your child knows a few animals, like a lion or a cow, and can tap a picture.
- Too much today? The Kindergarten level: two bins, meat or plants, and six animals.
- Too easy? The Grade 1–2 level: eight animals and a third bin for the ones that eat both.
What your child practises
- Sorting animals
- Teeth and beaks
- When two groups are not enough
“Pointed teeth tear meat, and flat teeth grind plants.”
If your child says something like this, in their own words, the idea has landed. Finishing the rounds means they took part; this is the learning.
Your part
- Nothing needed; a mirror for the dare is a nice extra
- Each question has a Read it to me button
- Plays alone: a miss gets that animal's clue, never a wrong
Take it off the screen (optional)
Take the Pet's dare: find pointed teeth and flat teeth in your child's own mouth, with a mirror.
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The full design
What it is
What an animal eats is written on its mouth: pointed teeth tear meat, flat teeth grind plants, and a beak catches whatever it catches. One animal at a time, your child taps the bin it eats from. A miss is never "wrong": the Pet gives the clue for that animal ("pointed teeth tear meat, look again") and the second tap is an easy one. The bins carry a picture (a drumstick, a leaf, both) so a child who cannot read the words yet can still tell them apart.
How it goes
The Pet asks "what does the lion eat?" over the lion's card; a tap on the picture opens it big enough to see the mouth. Your child taps a bin. The right bin gets one true thing ("that beak catches fish"); a miss gets the mouth clue and the round waits. Six or eight animals, then the finish says how many were sorted; new animals come round about every three days.
The Pet
Asks: "teeth, or a beak? what for?" Notices: "a hunter", "leaves and grass", "a mixed menu". Dares (1–2 up): find pointed teeth and flat teeth in one mouth, your child's own. If your child is stuck, the hint is that animal's clue in a short line, and the Pet will tap the bin with them.
By band
K: two bins, meat or plants, six animals whose menu is plainly one thing (no bear at K, so "both" is never the answer to a bin that is not there). 1–2: eight animals and the honest third bin, both. 3–4: eight animals, then why a brown bear eats both (whatever the season brings), and the family's cat last, a tiny hunter.
Done, and what counts as evidence
Done = the animals sorted. The mouth clue is a rule of thumb, not a law; nothing is written for K.
What's personal
Our cat stands in for the family pet until the family's own animals are data. Nothing is stored.