Sunday Report
The short version
Maya spent most of the week on how animals sense things we can’t — starting with sharks and ending up on how pigeons find their way home, asking her own questions the whole way.
Where the curiosity went
- Sharks
- Sensing electricity
- The platypus
- Magnetic fields
- How pigeons navigate
You might not know
Maya seems drawn to the idea that animals live in a completely different world from ours, and kept coming back to what a magnetic field would actually look like to a bird.
Saved to share with you
“If birds can see magnetic fields, what does it actually look like to them? Is it a colour?”
Practice this week
- RatiosLevelled up
- Earth and spaceFirst try
- WritingWrote a piece
- Finding a percentage of a numberNot yet
Worth ten minutes: finding a percentage of a number. Try one together and ask them how they would start.
Ask Maya at dinner
- If you could borrow one sense from a shark or a pigeon for a day, which would you pick?
- How does a platypus find its food with its eyes shut?
- What do you think a magnetic field would look like to a bird?






