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!
Next year I will have a prek and a 2nd grader. Would you recommend using bothe the Earth and the usa curriculums both in the same year? I really like them you did a great job.
FaithfulJ: NO! They are both pretty involved, so I would NOT do them at the same time, I would do one per year, they are both full year curriculums.
THANK YOU for creating the Geography curriculums! I have been looking high and low for curriculum aimed at K-3 that is printable (even better if it's cheap to free). Keep up the great work!
Hi! I just purchased Expedition Earth and was trying to download Discovering God's Animals and I cannot get the download to work. Any suggestions? I am not sure if I am doing something wrong. Thanks for your help.
Hi Erica,
The material looks really good and the the reviews are very positive but… I have a 5 and a 9 year old girls (apart from a toddler and a 12 year old girl). Is one too young and the other too old to work with this book? Thanks a lot and regards from the holy Land!
Chana
Actually it would probably be GREAT for both of them! I used it last year with a 4, 5, and 8 year old and they all LOVED it! I didn’t expect my 4 year old to do any of the writing assignments, but she did EVERYTHING else and had a great time. The older kids did the writing and quizzes, I did the quizzes orally for my 4 year old. I thought it went really well for those ages and I think you’d be find. It would probably be too easy for your 12 year old, you’d want to add in some extra reading maybe or have her do reports on the countries so she was doing some additional research type things, but you could probably do it with her as well.
Hey Erica,
I am trying to download the blank lines animal add on and it doesn’t open to anything. Sorry to bother you. Thanks for all you do.
Hi Erica,
Just downloaded the main geography program and was trying to download the animals component, but the link is not valid. Thanks
Hi Jennifer,
I’m moving from 4shared, so I may have missed a link to update. Did you click the download link off of the EE curriculum or my blog somewhere? Here is the updated link: https://shared.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/geography/ExpeditionEarthAnimals.pdf
Thanks, Erica
Erica,
I just tried to download the free EE Animals from your response to Jennifer, and it just opens a blank screen. Is there a trick to downloading it? I also just purchased EE and my girls are so excited to start! Thank you creating this curriculum and blessing us with it!
LaDona
Hi LaDona,
It’s not opening in some browsers for some reason. But you can right click on the download link then select “SAVE LINK AS” then pick a spot on your hard drive to save it and click “OK”. It should save the PDF file to your computer.
Let me know if that doesn’t work! Thanks, Erica
Hi Erica,
I too am unable to download the EE Animals supplement. Any other tips that I can try? We are very excited to use your programs.
Thank you in advance.
steph
Steph, if the “SAVE LINK AS” thing isn’t working, send me an email and i’ll try to send it via You Send It to you….sorry!
I’m prepaing to use your Animals Expedition along with the Expedition Earth geography this school year and was hoping to go ahead and create a space on our wall (with bulletin board paper and a matching border) to hang our “God’s Animals” and animal cards. But your picture (with Strawberry Shortcake) is hard to tell how large and what size your board is for all your animal pictures. It looks pretty big. Can you measure your space needed for this display to better help me with prepping my school room for our animals? Thanks so much for all your amazing work. What talent!
Stephanie: My board ended up being about 3′ x 5′, yes it ended up bigger than I’d anticipated but that was okay, the kids loved having all the animals up there all year! Also make sure to give more room for the mammals, there were way more of those than any other type.
Hi Erica, I am printing out the EE animals and the updated EE…wondering if I need to pring multiple copies for my kids. I have a 4.5, 6, and 8 yo. Or, can they all use the same materials? How did you do it with your kids? Did they all do their own minibooks, notebook, or did you make one shared one?
Thanks so much! A friend and I have both purchased this, and we are going to get together once a week to do some of the projects together! I can’t wait!
Hi Judi,
I actually printed out individual ones for each of them. I think some of it was a waste on my 4 yr old, but she liked to do them too, so I didn’t feel like I could just cut that out for her. You could probably do one large world lapbook for the whole family to share, but we did everything else separate. They each had their own binder with the worksheets in it and all the animal books. We did share our animal wall, each one got to put up 2 animals and tell something about them as they added them to the wall.
Up to you and how much you’re willing to print :o)