Snow Leopard · Himalayan Tahr · Red Panda · Himalayan Brown Bear · Blood Pheasant · Yak
Find out details about them. You may include their picture, habitat, adaptation, life cycle and lifestyle, as will as how they survive in harsh conditions.
Design a colourful chart with drawings, pictures, and captions about the animal or bird. Make a presentation and present it to the class.
This is a project. You must find the facts yourself, so nobody can hand you the answer. Here is exactly how to do it well.
Step 1 — Choose one. Pick just one animal or bird from the six given: Snow Leopard, Himalayan Tahr, Red Panda, Himalayan Brown Bear, Blood Pheasant or Yak.
Step 2 — Find the facts. Look in your school library, in an encyclopaedia for children, or ask your teacher to help you search online. Write down what you find under these five headings.
| Heading | What to write under it |
|---|---|
| Picture | A drawing or a printed picture of the animal. |
| Habitat | Where it lives — which mountains, how high up, how cold it is there. |
| Adaptation | The special things in its body that suit that place — thick fur, wide feet, a long tail. |
| Life cycle and lifestyle | How many young ones it has, what it eats, whether it lives alone or in a group. |
| Surviving harsh conditions | How it gets through deep snow, thin air and very cold winters. |
Step 3 — Make the chart. Take a big sheet. Write the animal’s name in large letters at the top. Paste or draw the picture in the middle. Put your five headings around it, with a short caption of one or two lines under each. Use colours, and leave white space so it is easy to read from a distance.
Step 4 — Present it. Hold the chart up. Speak for about two minutes. Say the name first, then go through the headings one by one. Look at your class, not at the chart.
- Name: Yak
- Habitat: The high, cold mountains of the Himalayas, where snow lies for much of the year.
- Adaptation: A very long, shaggy coat keeps it warm. Its wide, hard hooves grip rocky and icy ground.
- Lifestyle: It eats grass and small mountain plants. It lives in herds with other yaks.
- How it helps people: It gives milk and wool, and carries heavy loads. Our story says so on page 113.
- Surviving the cold: Its thick coat works like a blanket, so it can stand cold that other animals cannot.