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Zoology for kids
Zoology is a favorite subject with elementary kids. They love to watch animals, go to the zoo, act like animals, and will watch endless animal movies. Or maybe that’s just my kids? Either way I’m discovering I’ve got dozens of animal and zoology for kids posts. Future Ticia 2024 wants to add that our elementary science lessons was three years of zoology, and so there are loads of zoology lessons and experiments.
I know summertime is prime zoo visiting time, so I wanted to give you some great follow-up activities to your zoo visit. These are my kids’ favorite hands-on animal science activities and some great zoology for kids ideas.
While you’re at the zoo, I’d recommend using either the zoo animal observation sheet or the animal report form. Both of them are easy ways for young kids to organize their observations at the zoo.
For the next five days I’m going to be sharing different animal types and some fun activities to do with them.
Future Ticia 2024 here, this post came out when X day series were really popular, I still enjoyed them, but it does make some of my original words sound rather odd now.
But over the years I’ve figure out many different ways to break down zoology beyond my original post. But, let’s add in some more information.
Also I’m now adding in some affiliate links.
Zoology for kids resources
Each of the individual posts will have a lot more information, but right here, I’m going to give you some great spine material. This is assuming you plan to spend an entire year studying zoology with your elementary kids and want something to launch off from. First I’ll share what we used, and then I’ll share some other great curriculum I like.
- Apologia Land Animals of the Sixth Day
- Apologia Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day
- Apologia Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day
After my kids were in middle school or high school, another publisher came out:
And here’s one other that we used briefly when we needed a break from the more rigorous Apologia.
Zoology for Kids units
Originally published July 20, 2014
1st grade 2nd grade 5th grade flying creatures kindergarten land animals landing page swimming creatures zoology
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7 responses to “Zoology for kids”
Looking forward to your series!
Thanks I am too! I’m struggling sometimes though to figure out how to explain and string together the different ideas. Fingers crossed I’ll get it all together right.
Oh! I wish we lived near a zoo. Of course, that’s stupid…all we have to do is go outside here to find a zoo’s worth of wildlife. Still, it might be nice if they were behind the glass 🙂 Looking forward to your series!
We have friends that have moved to Asia recently to be missionaries, and they send us all sorts of fun pictures of wildlife that we pay to see in a zoo. There it’s described as being a “nuisance,” and I have to laugh at just seeing a monkey as you walk down the street.
What a fun series! I need to take my kids to the zoo.
I do too, I’m thinking to wait until school starts down here and then head up to Waco for the day.
What a great series for the summer. Looking forward to it!
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