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Meeting real heroes- SLOVAKIA -
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Slovak pupils met a professional environmentalist working for Nature Conservation Area Čadca. He came to share his professional experience with our 1stGraders. He was talking about his long time term observation related to animals, nature and people in the nature. It was interesting and pupils were listening very attentively.
1. Why is it fine to relax in the nature?
Nobody is a machine and human beings need a rest. If we have to recover after mental and physical strain, we need to recharge our batteries, so we need a rest and the nature provides us the perfect place to do it.
2. Why is it important to plant trees?
One tree produces enough oxygen for 2 people. Trees help us with the drainage of water during the storms. They provide us some food and they represent the dwelling for little wild animals, too. It is also said that people living surrounded by trees are healthier and more satisfied.
3. Why do people build bird houses?
Birds live difficult times during winters. If we want to protect them, to keep their numbers and use them as pest control, it is important to give them food during strong freezing period and icy weather which help them to survive. The perfect food for birds is different kind of seeds (sunflowers, nuts, oat flakes, corn etc.) and tallow.
4. Why are the insects important for us?
We would be in troubles without insects, there wouldn´t be anything to pollinate the flowers and plants and the life would be different in the nature. By the way, human beings use some products that insects produce – for example the honey. We also know that there are forest bees in the nature, too.
Nobody is a machine and human beings need a rest. If we have to recover after mental and physical strain, we need to recharge our batteries, so we need a rest and the nature provides us the perfect place to do it.
2. Why is it important to plant trees?
One tree produces enough oxygen for 2 people. Trees help us with the drainage of water during the storms. They provide us some food and they represent the dwelling for little wild animals, too. It is also said that people living surrounded by trees are healthier and more satisfied.
3. Why do people build bird houses?
Birds live difficult times during winters. If we want to protect them, to keep their numbers and use them as pest control, it is important to give them food during strong freezing period and icy weather which help them to survive. The perfect food for birds is different kind of seeds (sunflowers, nuts, oat flakes, corn etc.) and tallow.
4. Why are the insects important for us?
We would be in troubles without insects, there wouldn´t be anything to pollinate the flowers and plants and the life would be different in the nature. By the way, human beings use some products that insects produce – for example the honey. We also know that there are forest bees in the nature, too.
5. What do forest bees do?
The bee – worker builds honey combs, looks after the larvas, brings food into the beehive, flies out for meadows, cleans up the beehive and collects the nectar and pollen. The mother bee is a queen and it lies eggs, flies out the beehive during a fertilization and swarming period. It is a founder of the bee family and house. There is also a drone living in the beehive. It doesn´t do anything, but it is important for a fertilization. It is driven out of the beehive by other bees. It doesn´t have any sting. However all the members help as much as they can.
6. What do ants do in the forest?
The ants live in an anthill. There are about 800 000 ants there. Their role differs. The main and the most important member of the anthill is an ant queen. The biggest group of ants are workers. They look after the queen, eggs and larvas.
7. How does it look like in the anthill?
There are corridors, small chambers, food store places. The anthill can remind us of a shopping mall. There are many floors and the ants work hard similar to people working in the supermarkets.
8. Do ants and bees live like a family?
Some animals form groups – societies.
Each group is called differently – bees live in a bee colony, horse in a herd as well as deer, storks form pairs, wolves form packs, geese form gaggle, people live in families, ants in colonies.
The bee – worker builds honey combs, looks after the larvas, brings food into the beehive, flies out for meadows, cleans up the beehive and collects the nectar and pollen. The mother bee is a queen and it lies eggs, flies out the beehive during a fertilization and swarming period. It is a founder of the bee family and house. There is also a drone living in the beehive. It doesn´t do anything, but it is important for a fertilization. It is driven out of the beehive by other bees. It doesn´t have any sting. However all the members help as much as they can.
6. What do ants do in the forest?
The ants live in an anthill. There are about 800 000 ants there. Their role differs. The main and the most important member of the anthill is an ant queen. The biggest group of ants are workers. They look after the queen, eggs and larvas.
7. How does it look like in the anthill?
There are corridors, small chambers, food store places. The anthill can remind us of a shopping mall. There are many floors and the ants work hard similar to people working in the supermarkets.
8. Do ants and bees live like a family?
Some animals form groups – societies.
Each group is called differently – bees live in a bee colony, horse in a herd as well as deer, storks form pairs, wolves form packs, geese form gaggle, people live in families, ants in colonies.
9. How long do animals live? Is it as long as people live?
Animals and people change during their lives. They grow up, evolve, get older and sometimes also fatter. Some animals grow up faster than human beings. That´s why they may live shorter than human beings. Some young animals are very similar to their adults (bears, human beings, carp, snail, tits, grass snake), but some young animals are totally different from the adult ones (butterflies).
Here are some examples how long the animals live:
1) animals living shorter than a man:
fly (29days), edible frog (12 years), ant queen (18years),
2) animals living nearly as long as a man:
orangutan (59 years), African elephant (59 years),
shark(70-100 years),
3) animals living longer than a man:
sturgeon (more than 100 years), Greenlandic whale (more than 115 years), Greenlandic shark (more than 200 years).
Animals and people change during their lives. They grow up, evolve, get older and sometimes also fatter. Some animals grow up faster than human beings. That´s why they may live shorter than human beings. Some young animals are very similar to their adults (bears, human beings, carp, snail, tits, grass snake), but some young animals are totally different from the adult ones (butterflies).
Here are some examples how long the animals live:
1) animals living shorter than a man:
fly (29days), edible frog (12 years), ant queen (18years),
2) animals living nearly as long as a man:
orangutan (59 years), African elephant (59 years),
shark(70-100 years),
3) animals living longer than a man:
sturgeon (more than 100 years), Greenlandic whale (more than 115 years), Greenlandic shark (more than 200 years).
The 2nd Graders interviewed a nurse about Hygiene rules.
„Careful hygiene related to our hands can protect your health, think about it especially during this season of pandemic of COVID 19 illness,“ Mrs. Škybrahová started her talking. „We can prevent illnesses by washing our hands with a soap and water or using the disinfection. You protect yourself and the others as well.“
„By mechanical washing of hands with a soap and water we remove the germs so that we stop their spreading. This is why the hand hygiene is the 1st protection people do for stopping the spread of the infectious illnesses,“ she continues her introduction.
„Careful hygiene related to our hands can protect your health, think about it especially during this season of pandemic of COVID 19 illness,“ Mrs. Škybrahová started her talking. „We can prevent illnesses by washing our hands with a soap and water or using the disinfection. You protect yourself and the others as well.“
„By mechanical washing of hands with a soap and water we remove the germs so that we stop their spreading. This is why the hand hygiene is the 1st protection people do for stopping the spread of the infectious illnesses,“ she continues her introduction.
