Cheetahs on the Edge

Cheetahs are the fastest runners on the planet. This film documents these amazing cats in a way that’s never been done before.

Watch this video with your children, and then try some of our teaching and activity ideas below.

Teaching Ideas and Resources:

English

• Make a list of words that can be used to describe a cheetah.
• Create a set of verbs and adverbs to describe how cheetahs run.
• Think of some questions that you would ask a zookeeper about cheetahs.
• Write a story about a cheetah.

Maths

• Find out how fast cheetahs can run. Can you compare this to the running speeds of other animals and create some graphs / charts to show the data?

Science

• Find out more about cheetahs using different reference materials and make a report about them.
• Find out why cheetahs can run so fast. How is their body adapted to help them run quickly?

Computing

• Could you make your own video of a friend running in a similar style to this one? Watch the video and compare the running style of a human with that of a cheetah.

Art

• Pause the video and use the frames as the starting point for your own drawings of cheetahs running.
• Look at the pattern on a cheetah’s fur. Could you try to paint a picture of this (and the fur of other animals)?

Geography

• Where do cheetahs live in the wild? Can you plot their natural habitats on a map?

Physical education

• Where do cheetahs live in the wild? Can you plot their natural habitats on a map?