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This was a long unit! And very wide-ranging! We have talked about a lot of specific animals before, and some larger groups:
…but this was a little different because we were able to cover taxonomy and learn some organizing principles about the various groups. It was kind of nice to pull way out and do that overview to get the big picture.
Here is a lesson plan about classifying animals.
Due to remarkably good planning (hee hee) we were talking about classification soon after Halloween, which naturally led us to do a classification activity with the children's Halloween candy. They saw that there are many useful ways of dividing up, sorting, and labeling the same items!
We divided this unit up into Invertebrates, Reptiles, Amphibians, Fish, Birds, and Mammals. We also covered Habitats, Predators and Prey/Food Webs, Adaptations, Life Cycles, and Animal Families.
We loved this movie called Octopus: Making Contact (and octopuses are our new favorite animal!)
I also read this book The Soul of an Octopus (super interesting), and Sam and I watched and really liked this movie (My Octopus Teacher) even though it looked at first like it would be very boring :)
LOTS of fun books available for this unit…you really could fill up a whole year! And we did a lot of crafts too, which I will link to in a separate post.
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