Seals are very agile animals. Although they cannot sit, they are excellent swimmers. They swim on their backs and on their bellies. They move their bodies with their back fins and steer with their front ones. They also use their fins to communicate or push their young into the water when threatened.
They can: dive, while searching for food, even up to 200 m deep, and turn in the water.
The little ones look like fat balls and roll on their bellies.
In the movement game, we will practice several seal movements.
Goal:
- To make children aware of the movements that seals can perform.
Time: 10 minutes
Task Description
- The teacher presents sound signals, to which the children will have to respond by performing an appropriate gymnastic exercise.
- Clap – Children put their hands up above their heads (as in a closed position for the so-called “jumping jack”) and rotate three times around their own axis.
- Hop! – Children lie on their stomachs, stretch their heads up and support themselves with their hands like a seal with its front fins.
- Plonk! – Children hit the floor with their open palms like seals hit the water with their fins when they want to communicate.
- Two stomps – Children roll on their stomachs.
Between the signals, children move freely around the room.
This post was created as part of a project co-financed by Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt in cooperation with Naturschutzzentrum Oberlausitzer Bergland.