Crabs science lesson

 

I’ve said it before, and I’ll probably mention it several more times in our science lessons: Do not underestimate the value of a good field trip to the pet or grocery store. We have reached the point in Swimming creatures where we’re studying crabs and lobsters. I knew (Future Ticia 2025 says this is not currently true) our grocery store had live lobsters, and our pet store had pet hermit crabs. So for our crab and lobster lesson we went on a field trip.

By the by, Future Ticia 2025 is adding a bit more in to this post to make it more useful for all of you if you don’t want to JUST go to the grocery store.

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Crabs and lobsters booklist

I’ve got a separate post for horeshoe crabs and hermit crabs, so I did not include any books about them on here, this is solely generic crabs and a singular book comparing crabs and lobsters. This actually primarily focuses on crabs if I’m going to be honest.

Also, I have put together this list before I’ve checked them out from the library. If things go well I’m heading out to the library tomorrow to pick up the books and review them.

Nonfiction booklist

I’m going to be honest most of the books I put in here are nonfiction, because that was more the point of this list, and most of the fiction books I found were not really super great, or focused on holidays.

• Life Cycle of a crab
• Discovering crabs
• Who Would Win? Lobster or Crab
• Between the tides

Fiction booklist

Okay, my library actually had several more books, but they were either way too silly, specific holidays, or just weird. So, here are my two books I chose.

• Crabby Crab
• Crab Cake– at first I was going to skip this because I thought it was something different than what it was

Crabs videos

Okay, I guess I’m in a wow there are so many cool things to see. But, y’all crabs are so cool, and they’re so cute. So, I picked out a few of them, again not including any hermit crab videos. Also, now I’m going to go look for a Wild Kratts episode.

Crab field trip

We just read up about the various body parts of crabs and lobsters, so while I was out with the kids on Friday we stopped by the pet store and looked at their little brown crabs.  I was hoping for some hermit crabs, but this store didn’t have any.  You can see the crab down by Princess’ hand

That’s him all blown up.  It gave us a chance to look in real life and find eye stalks, his carapace, his walking legs, and his claws.  I had intended to go and check out the lobsters at the grocery store as well to compare, but the kids were not quite ready for that.

So, do you have a favorite place to go for field trips?

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• Zoo animal observation form for field trips