🏞️ Explorers: Amazing Animal Facts

A fully interactive A2 Kids reading lesson built around true animal fact files — the classroom jigsaw-expert experience in digital form. Students begin with four warm-up questions about wild animals, then study three fact-file tools: Fact power (fact-register present simple: one animal = verb + -s, many animals = no -s, with a fact-flags panel: lives in..., eats..., can..., has got..., the biggest..., up to...), Wow-facts (integrating can/can't for super skills and superlatives for records, revised from earlier missions), and Habitats (a who-lives-where table for the jungle, the desert, the ocean and the mountains). Ten key words (habitat, jungle, desert, ocean, mountain, insect, wild, fact, hunt, expert) appear in a scrollable table with kid-friendly definitions and examples, and six get detailed review flashcards. The reading presents four ~55-word true fact files from Team Compass: Zeynep's jaguar (the biggest cat in the Americas — and it can swim), Leo's camel (the hump keeps fat, not water, and the nose closes in sandstorms), Mia's blue whale (as long as three buses, with a heart as big as a small car) and Kofi's snow leopard (it can jump about nine metres but can't roar), with key vocabulary highlighted on hover. Practice includes 8 fill-in-the-blank fact sentences (verbs with and without -s, can-skills, superlatives and habitat words) with live green/red validation, hints and a running score; a speaking section with five expert-exchange prompts and a model nature-TV dialogue; a guided 25-40 word animal fact file writing task with a four-point checklist (habitat, food, super skill, bonus record) and a live word counter with auto-save; and a full 8-question multiple-choice quiz featuring a progress bar, per-question explanations, a result circle with tiered motivational feedback, and localStorage persistence.