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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 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

DESCRIPTION Here is a great group of coloring sheets to learn about the anatomy of bugs! In this simple coloring activity, kids will easily see the differences between the body parts of insects and spiders. Kids will notice that insects have 6 legs, a head, thorax, abdomen, and antennae, while spiders have 8 legs, a head, cephalothorax, pedipalps (feelers) and chelicerae (where the fangs are located). Additionally, kids will be able to compare different insects to see the similarities and diffe

DESCRIPTION Here is a fun, hands-on, and ready-to-go activity to see who would beat who in a race on the African savanna! There are 10 animals pictured (hippopotamus, cheetah, rhinoceros, African buffalo, zebra, elephant, lion, ostrich, impala, and giraffe) with their top running speeds included. Students will color and cut out each animal, and then glue them in order from slowest to fastest. This would be a great activity for any Safari or African Animal Unit. It would also be a wonderful math

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 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 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 wonderful bundle to make Groundhog Day memorable and educational! Both included activities are interactive and include informational blurbs. The worksheet borders are sure to make the day even more fun!! WHAT'S INCLUDED: "Groundhog Life Cycle Accordion Book": A great hands-on activity to learn about the life cycle of groundhogs."The Story of Groundhog Day": A sequence story to learn about the history and traditions of the holiday."Groundhog Day WS Borders": 18 transparent png borders i

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 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 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 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 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 sea turtle! 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: Green cardstock paper (optional), scissors, colored pencils or markers, glue stick DIRECTIONS Print out the 4 pages

DESCRIPTION Here is a fact-filled and fun graphic organizer/flipbook to learn about the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Compare and contrast the North and South Poles easily with this engaging activity! Students will learn about the weather, landscape, geography, animals, people, and seasons of each of these frozen places. You will even learn some history! Did you know that Antarctica has the most volcanoes out of any place on Earth? Did you know that the Arctic has 4 million inhabitants? Your stu

DESCRIPTION Create this fun, hands-on, and informative flipbook to teach about hibernation! Students will learn how hibernation is different from regular sleep and how animals prepare for it. Students will learn specific hibernation facts about each of the 7 animals pictured in the activity (bat, frog, bear, chipmunk, poorwill, snake, bear, and groundhog). Did you know that a groundhog’s teeth will stop growing while they hibernate? Or that some bats will double their weight in order to get read

DESCRIPTION Here is a review and assessment for a unit on “Telling Time”. The review and assessments both cover full hours, half hours, quarter hours, 5 minute increments, and 1 minute increments. For the review, kids will be asked to match an analog clock to a digital time, write in the times of analog clocks, and draw in the hour and minute hands to match the digital times shown. They will also be asked questions about the meaning of AM and PM, how many minutes are in an hour, and how many hou

DESCRIPTION Create this cute, hands-on flipbook to teach about food chains! This resource deals with Antarctic animals/organisms (plankton, krill, fish, penguin, leopard seal, and orca). Students will see how energy flows from one organism to the next, making all these living creatures interconnected. The last page of the book talks about how this interconnection can result in starvation or extinction of life on earth if one link of the chain in an ecosystem is broken. Each page of the book is n