Animals With Backbones (science Work For Kids Series)

Animals with Backbones. This book, designed with good science and easy teaching in mind, covers these concepts: animals with backbones are called vertebrates body characteristics and growth of vertebrates hunting, gathering and eating habits of vertebrates vertebrate adaptation and self defense Where vertebrates live Activities help children practice skills in: observation, analysis and communication making comparisons and 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 This 80 page book contains many reroducible, ready-to-go resources, such as: record sheets logbook forms minibooks picture cards