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DESCRIPTION Here is a colorful and informative graphic organizer for the 4 layers of a rainforest. For each of the four layers (Forest Floor, Understory, Canopy, and Emergent Layer) there is a vegetation section telling what grows in the layer, an animal section telling what inhabits in the layer, and a general description of the layer. Create this flipbook all in one day, or complete it over a span of days or weeks. For my unit with my own kids, we did a week on rainforest animals, a week on ra

DESCRIPTION Here is a great pair of activities to help learn about the human digestive system! The first activity is a simple, yet informative, coloring page, which has the students use one color for each part of the digestive tract. Students will become familiar with and color the mouth, esophagus, gallbladder, stomach, liver, pancreas, small intestine and large intestine. The second resource is a cut-and-paste activity with 6 of the main organs of the human digestive system. Both of these acti

DESCRIPTION Here is a great pair of activities to help learn about five parts of a flower (petal, stamen, pistil, sepal, and stalk). The first activity is a simple, yet informative, coloring page, which has the students use one color for each flower part. The second activity is a flower dissection sheet. My own kids LOVED the flower dissection and are still able to look at a flower and recite its parts! DIRECTIONS 1.“Color the Parts of a Flower” Activity: You will need the following colors: yell

Here is a wonderful bundle to create a memorable and educational unit about the Arctic and Antarctic Regions! Each resource is hands-on and includes informational blurbs. Many of the activities are easily differentiated and can be used with elementary to middle or even high school-aged kids! WHAT'S INCLUDED: "Antarctic Food Chain": A fun flipbook to learn about ecosystem interconnections in Antarctica."Arctic vs. Antarctic": A graphic organizer to learn about the weather, seasons, geography, lan

DESCRIPTION Create an adorable paper plate elephant with 7 included fun-facts! Did you know that baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort, just like human babies suck their thumbs? Did you know that an elephant can drink over 200 pounds of water at one time? This craft is easy to make and geared toward elementary aged kids. Simply paint a regular sized (9in diameter) paper plate, cut out the elephant ears, trunk, tusks, and fun facts, and then glue together. This activity is a perfect additi

DESCRIPTION Teach kids the famous Gospel story about the story of Easter with this hands-on accordion book. Kids will learn about the Last Supper, the betrayal of Judas, Jesus’s crucifixion, Jesus’s resurrection, and how we remember Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross for our sins with wine and bread. This activity gives young students practice in coloring, cutting, pasting, and placing pictures in the correct order, while teaching students the true reason for Easter. Each part of the story also incl

DESCRIPTION Do you know what makes an animal a bird?? Here is a wonderful book to learn about the 7 main characteristics of all birds! In the book, kids will learn that all birds are vertebrates, breathe air, are warm-blooded, hatch from shelled eggs, have wings, feathers, and bills with no teeth . Each page has an easy-to-read sentence so that beginning readers can read their books to others. Each sentence makes a connection to other types of animals so that kids can compare similarities and di

DESCRIPTION Create an adorable accordion book to teach kids the life cycle of a Monarch butterfly! This activity gives young students practice in coloring, cutting, pasting, and placing pictures in the correct order. Each part of the life cycle has an informative blurb so that this book is not only cute, but educational! My kindergarten and Pre-K girls LOVED this craft! MATERIALS NEEDED: Light green cardstock paper (optional), scissors, colored pencils or markers, glue stick, Elmer’s glue, glit

Here is a bundle perfect for any African Savanna Animals or Safari Unit! This bundle includes 4 hands-on activities. There is a flipbook to teach about diurnal and nocturnal animals that live on the savanna. A fun cut-and-paste activity to show which animals would win a race on the African savanna. An easy-to-create book focusing on 12 savanna animals. This book includes information about what a group of each of these animals is called, as well as other fun-facts. Finally, there is a cute elepha

DESCRIPTION Here is a fun activity to teach bird migration! Each bird has an easy-to-make slider that your students can use to “fly” the bird along its migratory route. In addition to being interactive, it is also very informative. Did you know that the Arctic Tern migrates the farthest distance of any animal on the planet? Did you know that despite its small size, a hummingbird can fly 500 miles over the ocean without stopping? This is the perfect resource for any Bird or Winter Hibernation/Mig

DESCRIPTION Create an adorable accordion book to teach kids the life cycle of a robin. There are 8 different stages to color. Each stage has an informative blurb to provide kids with extra knowledge detailing the development of these birds. Did you know that robins jump from their nest when they are only 9-16 days old? Additionally, this activity gives young students practice in coloring, cutting, pasting, and placing pictures in the correct sequence. This is the perfect resource for any bird un

DESCRIPTION Here is an interactive and hands-on way to learn about the 8 planets revolving around our sun. It is a great way to learn the names and order of the planets in our solar system (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune). It is also super easy to plan for and make. Simply color the planets, cut out the spinner, and assemble with a brass fastener. You also have 2 different spinner covers to choose from (one with stars and one without). This activity is a perfec

DESCRIPTION Here is a great resource to get students to explore all 5 of their senses in a hands-on way! There are 2-3 activities for each sense (sight, touch, hearing, smell, and taste). Use some or all of the activities, and have fun getting kids to investigate the amazing sensory receptors of the human body. This could easily cover a full week if you did one sense per day! For hearing, there is both a “Guess the Sound” open ended activity and matching activity, as well as a “Color the Parts o

DESCRIPTION Did you know all the parts of a plant that we actually eat daily?? Here is a great activity to teach the parts of a plant (flower, leaves, stem, seeds, and roots) with food! Kids will get practice in coloring, cutting, pasting, and matching words to pictures. There is also a yummy and highly nutritious recipe to make with all 5 parts of plants, so that students can actually EAT what they just learned about! MATERIALS NEEDED: Crayons/markers/colored pencils, scissors, glue stick DIREC

DESCRIPTION Here is a fact-filled and fun graphic organizer/flipbook to learn the major differences between reptiles and amphibians. Easily compare the skin, eggs, respiration, and babies of reptiles and amphibians with side by side facts and pictures. It is easy to make and a great tool to use for studying about these animals. My own kids loved this hands-on activity and your student’s are sure to love it too! MATERIALS NEEDED: Scissors, stapler, crayons/markers/colored pencils, glue (optional)

DESCRIPTION Create this fun and informative accordion book to teach about the life cycle of Emperor Penguins. There are 8 life cycle pictures of these awesome birds to color. Each picture of the life cycle has an informative blurb providing the students with a great deal of knowledge. Did you know a father penguin will lose almost half of his body weight while incubating the egg of its chick? Kids will learn that penguin chicks stay warm in the brood pouches of their parents and that both parent

DESCRIPTION Create this fun and informative accordion book to teach about the life cycle of groundhogs. There are 8 life cycle pictures to color. Each picture of the life cycle has an informative blurb providing the students with a great deal of knowledge. Did you know that a newborn groundhog is called a chuckling? Kids will learn about the size of a groundhog’s den, what groundhogs eat, groundhog hibernation statistics, and other interesting groundhog facts. This resource can be differentiated

DESCRIPTION Here is an interactive and hands-on way to learn about the phases of the moon! Choose between 3 different options for the spinner to differentiate learning at various levels and age groups. The first option already has the phases colored in and only requires cutting out the one spinner. The second option has students color in the moon to help understand that the moon waxes (grows) on the right side and wanes (shrinks) on the left side. The third option has students draw in each phase

DESCRIPTION Do you know the difference between regular sleep and hibernation? Here is a wonderful book to learn about this deep sleep adaptation that allows animals of all kinds to survive the cold and harsh wintertime! In the book, kids will learn facts about hibernation in general and also facts about specific hibernating animals. Did you know that there is actually a bird that hibernates? Did you know chipmunks are not true hibernators? Every page of the book has a general hibernation fact an

DESCRIPTION Create an adorable accordion book to teach kids the life cycle of a pumpkin, starting with it as a seed and ending with it becoming a jack-o-lantern! This activity gives young students practice in coloring, cutting, pasting, and placing pictures in the correct order. Each life cycle picture has an informative blurb so that this book is not only cute, but educational. It is a perfect resource for the fall and Halloween season! Happy Autumn!! MATERIALS NEEDED: Orange cardstock (optiona