Week 6

The Animal Kingdom:
Manatee Video 1
Manatee Video 2

Interactive Quiz about Africa's Animals

One Small Square:
Dik-Dik

Africa printable(s)
I printed out the savannah background from this multi-page printable and then copied animals from his One Small Square book. Ds then cut out the animals and pasted them onto the background for his science notebook.
He also colored in the different regions on the Africa map (Savannah, grasslands, desert and jungle).

Animal Encyclopedia:
Jan Brett's Mini Elephant Panaorama

Real Science-4-Kids Biology Level 1 Chapter 1: Living Creatures
I had this curriculum on hand and decided to use it along with AW. If I had Apologia's Zoology texts already, I would use those instead.

I created these cut out cards to practice putting classification labels in the correct order. I will be creating specific activities to use with the cards and with the same color coding. You can use these cards and activities even if you aren't using the Real Science-4-Kids curriculum as they will help your students get a better understanding of the classification of animals. Then when you read the selections out of the Animal Encyclopedia your student will know what it means when the book mentions "family" and "species"!

Classification practice:

Practice classification using these cards. They are color coded to match the cards in the printable above so students know which label is a kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus or species name. There is also a "check" card so students can check their work. Click the following animal names in the table below for a printable that looks similar to the one on the left. Students can compare the animal cards to see the similarities and differences in classification names. After practicing with these cards, students may enjoy looking up the classifications of the animals they are learning about in the Animal Encyclopedia book. Use Wikipedia to find out the complete classifications.

If you don't want to cut up the pages, you can just put them into your science notebook that was started with The Animal Kingdom book.

Jan Brett's Printable African Mural - Print out and color some of the animals for the mural. This is your last week studying the African savanna! You can also use these printables for a report or your nature notebook.