Animals with Backbones, Grades 1-3

For hands-on activities involving mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds that connect science with real life, choose Animals with Backbones. This book, designed with good science and easy teaching in mind, covers these concepts:
animals with backbones are called vertebrates
vertebrates are classified by their body characteristics
vertebrates change as they grow
vertebrates have developed different ways of finding food
vertebrate movements are adapted to the animal's needs
vertebrates have developed many forms of self-defense
some vertebrates build homes

Activities help children practice skills in: observation, analysis, communication, making comparisons, prediction, critical thinking, and recording. Areas of study address major themes such as: change, structure, function, diversity, and cause and effect.

Samples of the hands-on learning experiences:
animal defenses riddle book
build a home for an imaginary animal
examine fish and chicken bones
raise tadpoles
make plaster of Paris impressions of animal footprints

Contains many reproducible, ready-to-go resources, such as record sheets, logbook forms, minibooks, and picture cards. Illustrated throughout with fun, yet accurate animal line art. All 80 pages perforated for easy removal.