Hi, Future Ticia 2025 here, and I’m updating this old post from ages ago when my kids were in 2nd grade and our science lessons were to study Land animals from Apologia. It was a great series of lessons and we had so much fun with our lessons, and this lesson looking at how are ungulates organized was a great way to think through all the oddities of our plans.
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I now return you to past Ticia 2013, I’ll be popping in from time to time to add in more details.
This week we started on the first of two chapters in our Land Animals
How are ungulates organized printable sort
About five minutes before I started the lesson, I decided we needed a hands-on aspect to this. So, I did a quick image search and created a herbivore animal sort (Future Ticia 2025, JOIN MY NEWSLETTER to get access to the subscriber page and the printable).
I challenged the kids to figure out how these animals are sorted into orders.
They sat there and sorted and sorted the ungulates into all sorts of different categories. They tried it by color, by number of legs (they very quickly figured out that didn’t work), farm animal versus wild animals, and shape of the ear.
After numerous round and rounds of this, I gave them a hint: look at the feet.
That’s when it clicked. Ungulates are sorted by the number of toes they have. Horses, zebras, and donkeys all have 1 toe. They are all grouped together. Deer, cow, sheep, and goats all have two toes; they are grouped together. This is a very rough description of it, but they got the idea pretty well with this activity.
From there we dived into elephants, but I’m holding off telling about that until I get all of the activities thought out. I’m very tempted to head up to Waco and see the Mammoth dig site.
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