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Land Animals Unit
Apologia Science is a wildly popular homeschool science curriculum and a great spine for building your science lessons. When my kids were in elementary school we used them, and we I’ve created a lot of lessons for our land animals unit, and I wanted to put them all together in one place rather than scattered all over, so let’s get down to business.
Yes, I did put that earworm in your head too.
Sorry, not sorry.
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Resources for your land animals unit
This is going to be a high-level resource, because once you get down into specific units there is a lot more you can get, but here are my big suggestions you’ll want for the whole year:
- Apologia Land Animals of the Sixth Day– this is your spine
- Land Animals Notebooking Journal– I used to think these were silly, but I grew to love them, yes they are extra and you don’t need them, but I like the quizzes in them, and I like the organization for taking notes, and space for recording results of the experiments
- Land Animals Junior Notebooking Journal– I would move to using the full one as soon as you think your kids might be ready, we used this probably a year longer than we should have, but this is worth getting, much better than the lapbooking pages I tried originally which my kids hated (review of the Junior Notebooking Journal)
- Local zoo membership (bring your notebook to the zoo)
- Animal shelters/Pet shop
- Nature Center field trips
- Zoo animal observation form
- animal report minibook
I’m going to try and roughly organize this in the same order the chapters of the book are organized.
Never mind, while I understand why they organized it that way, I just don’t want to. I’m going to stick with how I originally organized it for my blog.
Land Animals Habitats and More
Well, I added this in as I was starting to sort this out and I realized I had several posts about different habitats for land animals…
Zoo Animals Unit
I went and recreated this list, and then realized I actually had a zoo animals unit landing page I wrote once. Sigh, this is what happens when your blog is over 10 years old.
Now, I need to ask myself if it makes sense to keep it as a separate page or fold it into one giant page. It is like 20 links just for zoo animals and that does get bulky to scroll through.
Huh, I just went and read that post, and wow, I kinda need to update it because I found way more links than are on there.
Of course I wrote it 10 years ago, like literally it was written in 2014, so there are a lot more posts now than when I wrote it.
Okay, my first section is going to be zoo animals. I love to visit the zoo, and this will include animals from most of the chapters in the book because they are sprinkled all throughout these chapters. But if I split it up by chapters, I just don’t have enough to have an entire section just for marsupials. What can I say?
Farm Animals Unit
I think I might have even made this into a landing page. Just a moment let me search that up…
So the answer is yes, yes I did make that a landing page.
Go check it out.
Backyard Animals lessons
I don’t know quite how to categorize this, so I’m going to call this backyard animals lessons. It makes as much sense as anything else.
Here’s a question, would you put rabbits as a backyard animal or a farm animal? I just realized it could be on either list.
- Armadillo lesson– I fully recognize everyone won’t find an armadillo in their backyard, and the great irony is, as I write this an armadillo has destroyed my front yard
- Rattlesnake lesson– thankfully I haven’t seen a rattlesnake in my backyard, but I have in a park
- Squirrel Unit
- Snakes lesson
- Rabbit Unit
Dinosaurs Lessons
That’s right, dinosaurs are land animals, so we can put them on here. Also, don’t rhinos look kind of like dinosaurs?
- Preschool Dinosaur Unit
- Dinosaur dig
- Danny and the Dinosaur Unit
- Cookie fossil dig
- How do dinosaurs digest their food? (gizzards)
- pasta dinosaur dig
At some point, I should go back to the zoo so I can get more animal pictures. Or just so I can happily sit there and watch the animals. That’s also a good reason.
What are your favorite animals to study?
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