Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised - Nature and Design - Age 7+

Phase 5 Set 5

Age

7+

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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

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Pippa Goodhart 01/07/2022 17:02