Let's Take This Outside!
Let's Take This Outside!
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Safety Tip:
Safety Tip:
Always check yourself (and pets) for ticks after time outside!
Always check yourself (and pets) for ticks after time outside!
4 Easy Steps To Prevent Bites
4 Easy Steps To Prevent Bites
- Wear long pants and long sleeved shirts
- Tuck shirts into pants and pants into socks
- Use insect repellant
- Always check for ticks when you leave the woods
Sound Bites
Sound Bites
How Predator and Prey Animals Hear
Materials: A phone or speaker, pencil, paper, a partner
For this activity, you'll be testing your ability to hear at a distance.
For this activity, you'll be testing your ability to hear at a distance.
A predator will often hear a prey animal before it sees it.
Their ears are well adapted to hear noises far away to help them hunt.
Prey animals need sharp hearing to prevent predators from sneaking up on them, too.
How do your ears compare?
How do your ears compare?
Step 1: Use a phone or speaker to play music at "outdoor voice" volume. Walk away from the sound.
Step 2: Write down every 5 steps whether or not you can still hear the music.
Walk until you cannot hear it, and write down how many steps you are away from the speaker.
Step 3: Restart the experiment, but have your helper change one factor about the sound.
The factor can be the direction or height of the speaker or obstacles in between you and the speaker.
Walk until you cannot hear it, and write down how many steps you are away from the speaker.
Step 4: Compare if the number of steps are the same, less, or more between each trial.
Bonus Challenge: Some animals can hear by feeling vibrations with their tongues (like snakes) or with whiskers (like coyotes).
Play a song with a lot of bass (meaning it shakes the ground) and walk until you cannot feel the vibrations in the ground anymore.
Check out these fun Links & videos for more information about these topics!
Check out these fun Links & videos for more information about these topics!
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