Tag: flying creatures

  • Zoology for kids

    Zoology for kids

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    Zoology is a favorite subject with elementary kids.  They love to watch animals, go to the zoo, act like animals, and will watch endless animal movies. Or maybe that’s just my kids?  Either way I’m discovering I’ve got dozens of animal and zoology for kids posts. Future Ticia 2024 wants to add that our elementary…

  • Science Games for School

    Science Games for School

    Science games are much more difficult to come by in stores, unless you head specifically to a school supply store, and then it’s pretty much a regurgitation of what you’ve learned in a trivial pursuit style. Still there are SOME gameschooling games that are fun to play, and I’ll tell you most of these are geared towards…

  • The BEST Animal Report minibook for beginning writers

    The BEST Animal Report minibook for beginning writers

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    Almost 10 years ago I started researching the different states here in the United States to see what made each one different as we were studying them. I was amused to discover every state had a state animal, and we started studying the animals. This led to the need for a quick and easy way…

  • Insects booklist

    Insects booklist

    When studying flying creatures we often break things down into individual insects (At some point I should make a Flying Creatures Unit landing page). We look at ants (ants are included in flying creatures because they do fly briefly when forming new colonies, and because it would be weird to have one solitary insect over…

  • Birds Unit

    Birds Unit

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    I think of all of our science lessons this was one of my kids’ favorite biology units.  They loved our birds unit because it afforded them so many opportunities to make things and to act out what they learned. (there are affiliate links in here) Some Bird unit inspiration and resources I’m just going to…