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Getting Through Winter: Hibernate, Rest or Migrate

  • Grade 1
  • Science
  • 53 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC1-SC-05

As winter comes, a groundhog goes down its burrow to hibernate in a deep sleep for months, and a turtle swims to the bottom of the pond to rest in the mud. Many geese migrate to a warmer place with more food, and then snow covers the ground and ice covers the pond, ending on the recap that some animals hibernate, some rest and some migrate.

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The question this lesson answers

How do animals get through the cold winter?

Here are three common ways they do it.

Transcript

What the lesson says

How do animals get through the cold winter?

Here are three common ways they do it.

A groundhog goes down into its burrow.

It hibernates, in a very deep sleep for months.

A turtle swims down to the bottom of the pond.

It rests in the mud and barely moves.

Many geese fly far away before winter.

They migrate to warmer places with more food.

Then snow falls and ice covers the pond.

Some animals hibernate, some rest, and some migrate.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 1

Science, Biology: behavioural adaptations of animals in the local environmentBC1-SC-05

Previous: Bones Inside, Shell Outside, or Neither?Next: Hiding and Copying: How Insects Stay Safe

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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