Wonders Book 2: Plants, Insects, and Dinosaurs (Differentiated Curriculum for Kindergarten)

Childhood is full of wonders. The Wonders curriculum builds on the questions children ask, creating more opportunities for learning. The books in Prufrock's new Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes.

This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Kindergarten, students will learn to discover the wonders around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn.

In Wonders Book 2: Plants, Insects, and Dinosaurs, students will wonder about plants, insects, and dinosaurs. Kindergarteners will participate in hands-on experiments related to seed scattering, camouflage, and fossils.

Other topics studied within the concept of wonders include plant parts, plant adaptations, dinosaur eating habits, extinction, arachnids, worms, and body characteristics of insects.

Other books in the Wonders series include Wonders Book 1: Nature, Space, and Community; and Wonders Book 3: Machines, My Body, and Physical Fitness.

This curriculum unit makes use of the following great children's literature books:

• From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons;
• A House is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman;
• Bugs and Other Insects by Bobbie Kalman;
• The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle; and
• Dinosaur Encore by Patricia Mullins or How Big Were Dinosaurs? Gigantic! by Patrick O'Brien.