:Chimps and Orang-utans
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Approach: Independent Level: Year 8
Focus:  Identifying similarities in two sets of information.   
Resources: Information card about chimps, highlighter pen.
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Questions/instructions
Some things about chimps and orang-utans are the same.

1. Read the information card about chimps.

2. Read the information about orang-utans.

3. Use the highlighter to mark the information about orang-utans that is the same as for chimps.

Chimpanzees
Orang-utans

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Orang-utans are one of the four great apes. They are quite different to other great apes because of their orange coloured fur. Orang-utans prefer to live alone and not in groups.

Orang-utans spend most of their time swinging through trees, only occasionally going down to the ground. At night orang-utans sleep in nests in trees.
Orang-utans start the day by eating food. They rest through the middle of the day then eat again in the late afternoon. Orang-utans eat lots of fruit but also eat nuts, leaves and insects.
 
% responses
y8
orang-utans are one of the four great apes
marked exact section
83
marked larger area including these words
3
at night orang-utans sleep in nests in trees
marked exact section (including “night”)
79
marked larger area including these words
6
orang-utans start the day by eating food
marked exact section
66
marked larger area including these words
6
eat again in the late afternoon
marked exact section
45
marked larger section including these words
23
orang-utans eat lots of fruit
marked exact section

57
marked larger areas including these words
11
 
Total score:
9–10
32
7–8
30
5–6
22
3–4
8
0–2
8
Commentary
 About 60 percent of the students scored well (7 or more), about double the percentage of year 4 students that scored well on the parallel task Cats and Dogs.
 
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