3rd – 6th Grade The Animal Kingdom Unit Study (Independent Use Family/Group License)

Description

This exciting Unit Study introduces children to animal classification and then dives into learning about a wide variety of animals, including arthropods, fish, reptiles, amphibians and birds. A thorough investigation of mammals includes big cats, ursidae (bear, panda), elephantidae, pinnipeds: (seals, sea lions and walrus) and cetacea (dolphin, whale, porpoise), primates, rhinocerotidae, equidae (horse, donkey, zebra, mule), cervidae (deer, elk, moose, reindeer), bovids (bison, buffalo, musk ox, sheep, goat, cattle), camelids (camels, llamas, alpacas), sirenia (manatees and dugong), pilosa (anteaters and sloths), cingulata (armadillo), marsupials, chiroptera (bat), Mustelidae (weasels, badgers, otters, martens, mink, wolverines) and Mephitidae: (skunks, stink badger), lagomorpha (rabbit, hare, Pika), rodentia and soricomorpha (shrew, mole, solenodon) and other even-toed ungulates (pig, piccary, hippo, giraffe). It includes an interesting treatment of other invertebrates (mollusks, worms, echinoderm, cnidarian, ctenophores, sponges, echdysozoa, spiralia) and ends with extinct animals.

(1 Family or Group License, includes 30 topics)