Animals with Backbones - Scienceworks for Kids Book

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.Read More