Learning about Animals
Jo Ellen Moore
Paperback
(Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, March 12, 1994)
The title says it all -- this book will have your students Learning About Animals in a variety of ways, and having fun doing it. Whether they're coloring, cutting and pasting, matching, or just listening to you read a favorite animal story, they'll be involved with the subject on several levels.Activities help children practice skills in: observation, communication, making comparisons, ordering, and categorization. You get student activity sheets, teacher resource pages with ideas for special projects like field trips and literature references, and 36 reproducible picture cards (to be copied onto tag or card board, laminated and cut for use with resource pages). Animal topics and concepts covered include: habitats, body coverings, sounds, movement, sizes, shapes, colors, special adaptations, babies, wild and tamed, and relationships to mankind. Cute, yet accurate line art illustrations throughout. All 48 pages perforated for easy removal.