Roar movie preview (lions)

Aardvark Movie

Another short aardvark movie

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Leaf cutter ants and fungus (3rd video segment down in the Life Science: Protistas and Fungi movie)

Africa's Child - Living with Lions in Kenya (14 minutes)

Ants Very nicely illustrated site

Animal Habitats:
Photos of important cereals

You can print out these pages I created for your animal notebook as mentioned in The Animal Kingdom. You can also cut the pictures apart for classifying activities or games. Click on a picture to download a PDF.

Vertebrates Mammals	Vertebrates Fish	Vertebrates Birds
Vertebrates Amphibians and Reptiles	Invertebrates Insects	Invertebrates Aquatic

Classification picture cards
I cut out the kingdom labels and ds put them on the floor in the order they go. He then looked at the pages of animal cards and classified them into the proper phylum, etc.

Vertebrates:
Learn all about vertebrates and how to classify them with these printables, worksheets and a card game! This was a very useful printable that really helped ds understand simple classification of vertebrates.

Glow in the Dark Fish:
Go outside and draw pictures of flowers into your nature notebook. Collect pollen and look at it under the microscope.

Animal Habitats:
After reading about the prairie plants, guess what they look like based on their name and draw the guesses into your nature notebook. After drawing your guesses, paste in pictures of how the plant really looks next to your drawings for comparison.
Big bluestem
Little bluestem
Butterfly Weed
Purple Coneflower

Jan Brett's Printable African Mural - Print out and color some of the animals for the mural. You can also use these printables for a report or your nature notebook.