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Amazing Elephants

Group E:

Rohaida, Samina, Hanan, Done, and Samah

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Explore

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Compare

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Question

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Connect

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Table of contents

All about elephants

All about cranes

Let us think together

Connecting it to Allah SWT

Appreciate

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Learning from elephants

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Starter

Draw an elephant

What is so cool and special about elephants?

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Objectives

  1. Explore fun facts about elephants
  2. Compare elephants with a man made object such as cranes
  3. Comprehend that nature, cause and chance can not make elephants.
  4. Connect elephants to the names of Allah SWT
  5. Extract character lessons from elephants

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Explore

  1. The African elephant is the largest living land mammal. It can weigh 6000 kg and is so strong allowing it to lift its own weight!
  2. Elephants’ trunks consist of over 40,000 muscles enabling it to lift over 200kg.
  3. Elephant ears are used to tell the three different species of elephants apart.
  4. The elephant trunk serves as a nose, a hand, an extra foot, a signaling device, a tool for gathering food, a snorkel when swimming, used for dusting, digging and much more!
  5. Elephants feel vibrations in the ground through their bones allowing them to detect if there is movement around them.

Did you know?

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Compare

Think, Pair and Share Activity: �

Let’s look at the appearance of both.

  1. What do you notice?
  2. What are the similarities and differences between the elephant and the crane?
  3. Does the elephant grow? How about the crane?
  4. What do you need in order to build a crane? How about an elephant?

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Question

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Nature

Cause

Chance

Crane

  1. Who makes cranes?
  2. What are they made of?
  1. Did the materials magically assemble into a crane?
  2. Does it work on its own?
  1. How does the crane navigate its way?
  2. How does it work?

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Elephant

  1. How does the elephant come about?
  2. Did the elephant make its own trunk?
  1. Did the plants make the elephant strong?
  2. How does the elephant know how much it has to eat?
  1. Did the elephant get its trunk by chance?
  2. Why doesn’t a Rhino grow a trunk?

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Connect

Interconnectivity

Allah creates elephants to be strong animals with strong features. This is reflected through Allah’s name of:

Elephants are the biggest land animal created by Allah and anything that comes under their feet is crushed. This reminds us of Allah’s name:

Allah created elephants with different shapes of ears depending on where they live. Allah gave elephants strength to make footprints deep enough to be filled with water to provide tadpoles with a home. This teaches us that Allah is:

Allah created elephants firmly enough to allow them to move through the jungle confidently making pathways for other animals. We can see that through Allah’s name of:

Allah gave elephants a trunk that has thousands of mussels enabling them to lift heavy logs and objects. We find this in Allah’s name of:

Allah’s Names

القوي

The All Strong

القهار

The Ever Dominating

الخالق

The Creator

المتين

The Firm

الرافع

The Elevator

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Appreciation

What if….

Elephants used their strengths to harm others?

Elephants didn’t have a trunk?

Elephants weren’t heavy?

What do we learn from Elephants?

Elephants are firm and steady as we all should be on the path of Allah SWT

Elephants make pathways in forests as a passage for other animals. We should all be helpful to others.

We learn to use strengths in good ways and not to harm others because elephants do not harm.

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Appreciation

Zikr:

We remember that there is no might or power except for Allah

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Fikr:

We appreciate that Allah has created the perfect environment for elephants and their community to live in

Shukr:

We thank Allah for the gift of the elephant which helps us with heavy jobs

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Connection to Quran and Hadith

Have you not considered, [O Muhammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant? (1) Did He not make their plan into misguidance? (2) And He sent against them birds in flocks, (3) Striking them with stones of hard clay, (4) And He made them like eaten straw. (5)

عن أبى هريرة رضي الله عنه، أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال‏:‏ “الإيمان بضع وسبعون، أو بضع وستون شعبة، فأفضلها قول لا إله إلا الله، وأدناها إماطة الأذى عن الطريق، والحياء شعبة من الإيمان” ‏ ‏‏(‏متفق عليه‏)‏‏

"Iman has sixty odd or seventy odd branches. The uppermost of all these is the Testimony of Faith: 'La ilaha illallah' (there is no true god except Allah) while the least of them is the removal of harmful object from the road. And shyness is a branch of Iman."

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Let’s sing along with Zaki� The Elephant Song

Group Activity

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Jazakum Allah Khairan