Expedition Earth: Discovering God’s Animals is an accompanying animal unit study that is designed to go with my
Expedition Earth: A Journey Through God’s World Geography Curriculum.
What’s included in the Expedition Earth: Discovering God’s Animals
Each country contains a waterfall style mini-book with 6 animals from that country. The flip book has a fun facts sentence for your student to either trace or write depending on skill level. I plan on using this with my preschooler, first grader and 2nd grader as a group (I doubt my pre-k will be doing the writing, but she can cut out the pages and assemble for her animal book, I’ll leave it up to her).
The animal study also comes with animal classification cards for an animal discovery wall along with animal cards for each country so you can classify the animals as you are learning about them. I just made a simple bulletin board for our room so we have somewhere fun to display all of our animals as we learn them.
(I recommend writing the country names on the backs of the animal cards before they get all mixed up on your wall.)
Here’s a sample of the classification cards and Animals of Brazil cards:
NOTE: For the older kids I made a version with blank lines to write in their own facts, its a great research project!
Note: This is intended to be a supplement to the Expedition Earth curriculum but it can also be used as an independent animal unit study.
If you missed it, click here to see the Expedition Earth: A Journey Through God’s World Curriculum!
Hope you enjoy learning all about God’s Animals!
This looks so fun! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 3 post on Aug. 04, 2010. Thanks again.
Thanks, Erica! This time it downloaded perfectly 🙂
I love how you organized it by country or area! great idea
What great pictures! My kiddos love animals and there are lots on there that I haven't even heard of 🙂 Thank you for sharing this!I just found your blog this week and I am enthralled….you are so BUSY creating wonderful things! What a blessing to the rest of us who are not so craftily-inclined…lol!Again, thank you, my kids (ages 8,6 and 3) are going to have a blast! And so will I! 😉
Thanks so much for sharing such a wonderful resource for the younger children. It is very appreciated. Can I please point out a spelling error? In Animals of New Zealand you have a "tutara" – they're tu*A*tara 🙂
Anonymous: YES, THANK YOU! I just fixed it, so you can re-download, sorry!
Erica,I am having trouble with the free Ex. Animals. It won't open. I just downloaded today. I agree with the other comment as well that 4shared has some pretty nasty ads. I have to leave open another window for the 90 second wait so my kids won't see.
You amaze me! Somehow, I am going to use this. I might be able to tie it into our FIAR studies when we get to them, since we will be making a map of animals around the world ~ thank you!
What a great product for studying the 7 continents!I love the Rainforest Diorama page with pictures! It's so helpful for visual learners like me! I also love that you have a suggested schedule broken down day by day. Very helpful to moms that struggle with organization.