Lesson Overview
Pack your warmest coats and step back in time to the frozen world of the Ice Age. Discover how cold it really was, meet some of the coolest (literally!) Ice Age animals, and find out how they survived in a world covered in snow and ice.
Learning Outcomes
- When the Ice Age happened
- What Earth looked like during the Ice Age
- Learn about Ice Age animals’ diet, size, and features
Branching Slides
• Decide which animal to learn about and discover its features: a mammoth or a sabre-toothed cat.
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Let's use our time machine to go back in time to the Great Ice Age!
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The Great Ice Age was 11,700 years ago.
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11,700 years ago
2025
Brrr, a very long winter!
What season do you like?
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B
C
D
winter
spring
summer
autumn
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In Ice Age, whole Earth
was in ice and snow.
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false
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No, only a part!
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B
Which animal would you like to see?
woolly mammoth
sabre-toothed
cat
Look, a mammoth!
What would you
do if you met a mammoth?
scream
A
run away
B
feed it
C
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plants
What did
a mammoth eat?
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meat
2
snow
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plants
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true
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false
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A mammoth could eat 200 kilograms of plants a day!
Wow!
200 kg
1,667 bananas!
Some also call me a sabre-toothed tiger!
Look, a sabre-toothed cat!
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/saber-tooth-cat-stands-on-snowy-1671169087
What would you do if you met a sabre-toothed cat?
run away
B
scream
A
climb a tree
C
How long were
its teeth?
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/3d-rendering-saber-toothed-tiger-isolated-2461283849
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20 cm
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80 cm
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170 cm
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20 cm
It was as fast
as a rabbit.
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false
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false
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max 48 km/h
max 56 km/h
It was slower!
Let's go to a warmer
place.
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/3d-illustration-giant-sloth-630281483
Look, it's a giant ground sloth!
It was as tall
as...
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/megatherium-sloth-tail-3d-illustration-herbivorous-1348281092
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2
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a fridge
Big Ben
a giraffe
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a giraffe
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It was as heavy
as a polar bear!
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false
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400-600 kg
It was as heavy as 6-8 polar bears!
3000-
4000 kg
Let's go to Norway and see what happened when the ice melted.
ice melted
ice valley
fjord
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/geiranger-fjord-norway-nature-fjords-traveling-2492047107
It's a fjord in Norway.
What a great adventure.
It's time to go home.
Which Ice Age animal do you like?
A
woolly mammoth
sabre-toothed cat
B
giant ground sloth
C
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