Phase 5 Set 5
Age
7+
5
Nature and
for Letters and Sounds Revised
Phonemes covered: /ai/ aigh, ea, eigh, ey /ear/ eer, ere /j/ dge, ge /m/ mb /n/ gn /or/ augh, ore, our /sh/ ci, ti /zh/ su
Design NATURE AND DESIGN
What can animals and birds and insects and plants teach us? How do they help with our inventions?
Nature and
Design
An information book collins.co.uk/collinsbigcat
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Nature and
Design
Written by Pippa Goodhart
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Animals, birds and trees were here long before people and we can learn a lot from them.
gecko 500,000,000 years ago 200,000,000 shark
termites
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Let’s see what nature has taught us about how to design things.
beetle
maple tree
100,000,000 king fisher
now people
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Great white sharks are silent, quick swimmers. This makes them great hunters. Their special skin makes them extra fast.
great white shark
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Shark skin has tiny v-shaped scales called dermal denticles. The denticles make water flow over skin more smoothly so sharks can cut through the water with ease. dermal denticles
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Engineers have copied dermal denticles to make a range of things work more efficiently. A swimmer wearing an outfit with dermal denticles swims faster.
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This coating for aircraft helps them move through the air more easily.
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Phase 5 Set 5
Age
7+
5
Nature and
for Letters and Sounds Revised
Phonemes covered: /ai/ aigh, ea, eigh, ey /ear/ eer, ere /j/ dge, ge /m/ mb /n/ gn /or/ augh, ore, our /sh/ ci, ti /zh/ su
Design NATURE AND DESIGN
What can animals and birds and insects and plants teach us? How do they help with our inventions?
Nature and
Design
An information book collins.co.uk/collinsbigcat
52138_Cover.indd 1
Pippa Goodhart 01/07/2022 17:02