Requirements:

Objective Girls can gain practical life skills by learning about nocturnal animals. This will help them be more comfortable around nature when camping out. Guidelines

Complete all of the following activities

Activities

1. What is a nocturnal animal? Explain how they differ from other animals and when they come out.

2. Name five nocturnal animals. What does each of them eat?

3. Go outside at night and listen to the sounds at night. What do you hear? Identify the various sounds you recognize. What do you think the other sounds are?

4. Take a cat’s eye hike to learn more about nocturnal animals. Make a list of animals to see and hear on the hike.

5. How do nocturnal animals see in the dark? (www.ebiomedia.com/gall/eyes/nocturnal.html)

6. Learn a nocturnal animal song.

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