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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 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 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 fun and informative graphic organizer to teach about 10 different types of fossils and what they have taught us about the world we live in! Each fossil has an educational blurb included with its picture. For example, kids will learn that because of coral fossils found on mountaintops, we know at one time in Earth’s history there used to be oceans where mountains now exist. Or that the tropical flower fossils found in very cold regions today allow us to know that the Earth’s

DESCRIPTION Here is a fact-filled and fun graphic organizer/flipbook to learn the wide variety of differences in birds relating to flight, migration, size, diet, color, habitat, and dependency of their babies. Each trait category is broken into opposites such as “big” vs. “small” for size, “hot” vs. “cold” for habitat, and “precocial” vs. “altricial” for their chicks’ dependency, etc. Each opposite category then has a bird example with an informational blurb. My own kids loved this hands-on acti