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Want to make learning about prehistoric creatures unforgettable for your students? These hands-on dinosaur activities will transform your classroom into an exciting world of exploration, discovery, and fun! If you’re looking for a fun way to engage your students in a hands-on, dinosaur theme learning unit, you’ll love these dinosaur activities for kids! Dinosaur Activities For Kids No creature that ever roamed the Earth is… Read More
Exploring animal habitats with kids is always a great way to introduce them to life science. Whether working with kindergarten or first graders this hands-on lesson plan will help kids understand the important value of different habitats and the animals that live in them with fun interactive activities. Exploring Animal Habitats for Kids: A Fun and Engaging Lesson Plan Before… Read More
Insects are always a fun theme in spring, so this week we learned all about insect life cycles and butterflies. Day 1 We started out on the first day with general lesson on insects. We learned the difference between a bug and an insect. We watched a short video on YouTube to begin our lesson called All About Insects Next,… Read More
Learning about oviparous animals is a fun topic for young children. They love learning about animals that hatch from eggs and of course, this gives us a chance to think about that age old question – What came first…the chicken or the egg? What are oviparous animals? I like to begin most lessons with a read aloud so we… Read More
Here’s a peek at what we’ve been working on this week….I love this time of the year to delve into my sciences standards. I think fall really lends itself to woodland creatures, habitats, how they prepare for winter and hibernation. This week we did a little mini unit on these animals and focused on those pesky little critters, chipmunks! ?… Read More
Stellaluna bat activities are perfect during the fall and around Halloween! These bat lesson plans include anchor charts, a bat cave, story map and more! Last week we read the book Stellaluna and some non fiction books about Bats on Epic Books (it’s like Netflix for books…..and its FREE for teachers!!) We did a little mini unit on Bats and their habitats.This fits in… Read More
