A Digger With a Big Menu: teacher key

Honey Badgers, grade 3 edition, written for 3rd grade. A honey badger eats snakes, eggs, roots and honey. Find out where it lives, how it digs and how it spends its days.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What do honey badgers eat besides honey?
   • Only fruit
   • Snakes, birds, eggs and roots (answer)
   • Only grass
2. When can a honey badger look for food?
   • By day or by night (answer)
   • Only at noon
   • Only in the rain
3. Where does a mother raise her cub?
   • In a tree
   • In a nest of sticks
   • In a burrow (answer)
4. Why might closing its ears help a digger?
   • It keeps dirt out (answer)
   • It makes it faster
   • It keeps it warm
5. What does larvae mean in this book?
   • Tree roots
   • Baby insects (answer)
   • Beehives

Words

• larvae: baby insects
• rodents: mice and rats
• bulbs: round plant parts
• burrows: hole homes
• gland: a body part