Animals are Amazing

Author/Presenter: Sanne van der Ros	Target Grades: Primary (K-3)
Availability: All, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter	Theme: Biodiversity and Wildlife
Cost: None	School District: School District 6

Description

Through hands-on activities and active games, students will explore their local environment in this half-day outdoor program. Using their turned-in senses, students will observe various local animals and their habits and will make their own interpretations about what they have seen. They will make connections between the animal world and the non-living world (water, air, soil) through games and discover how different animals need different things at different times of the year or different times in their life cycle. Students will become aware of the importance of animals in the natural world and in our own lives. All students will go home with something they created!

Read Sanne van der Ros' biography here.

Notes

This is a half-day program which takes place within walking distance from the school or a short bus ride to a natural area within the community upon request. Students should wear closed shoes and weather-appropriate clothing that can get dirty and bring a snack and drink along. Teachers can request relevant follow-up activities they can do with their class afterwards.

Curriculum Matches

Animal growth and changes ? Use their senses to interpret observations ? Classify familiar animals according to similarities and differences ? Describe ways in which animals are important to other living things and the environment ? Explain why air, water, and soil are important for living things ? Describe some changes that affect animals (e.g., hibernation, migration, decline in population) ? Social Studies: responsibility to the environment, how environment affects human activities