The integrated nature studies here for 4th-6th graders include journal writing prompts, art and craft assignments, educational youtube video (reviewed by teachers in advance), and reading materials collected together for independent, student research.
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The Animals & Plants Journal Lessons:
- Study The Rabbit - The rabbit is a small rodent of the family Leporidæ - the same family to which the hare belongs.
- Study The Caterpillar - The eggs of butterflies are interesting microscopic objects, as they are usually covered with a hard shell, and are of various shapes and colors. The majority of insects pass through a regular series of changes.
- Study The Butterfly - The butterfly is one of the '' Lepidoptera '' or scale-winged insects. Besides butterflies, of which it is reckoned that there are 10,000 different kinds, this order includes the moths, of which it is estimated that there are 40,000 species.
- Study The Spider' Web - Spiders are distinguished from all other animals by their habit of spinning webs.
- Study Wood -
- Study The Cabbage - The cabbage is another of the plants cultivated by people for eating and display.
- Study The Bee: Lesson 1 - The bee is a rather stoutly built insect, belonging to the Apiarian family of the Aculeate or stinging Hymenoptera.
- Study The Bee: Lesson 2 - During the winter and the spring the hive consists exclusively of the perfect female, the Queen Bee, and of a number of imperfect females or worker bees.
- Study The Mole - The Common Mole belongs to the order of the Insectivora, an order of animals small in size, and m stly of more or less purely nocturnal habits.
- Study The Crab -
- Study The Slug - The air-breathing molluscs in which the shell is internal or entirely absent are popularly called slugs.
- Study The Pea-Pod - The fruit of the pea is a simple fruit, that is, it is the result of the ripening of a single pistil.
- Study Leaves: Lesson 1 - Leaves show an almost infinite variety both of structure and of shape. They are the breathing organs of the plant, and by their aid the plant makes organic material from its inorganic food.
- Study Leaves: Lesson 2 - With regard to the distribution of the strands which traverse the green blades we distinguish between blades with a single main strand and blades with several.
- Study Insects and Flowers - The vast majority of flowering plants are arranged by botanists into two classes, wind-fertilized, and insect-fertilized, that is, plants whose pollen is brought to their stigmas by the wind, and plants for which insects perform this duty.
- Study How Seeds Grow - The seed, which must be carefully distinguished from the fruit, of which it forms a part, is the fertilized seed-bud or ovule.
- Study Wood - In dicotyledons, or exogenous plants, the stem consists of the bark, the cambium layer, the wood, and the pith.
- Study Nuts - A nut is a hard, one-celled and single-seeded indehiscent fruit. It is usually produced from an ovary of two or more cells, with one or more ovules, in each of which all but the single ovule and single cell have disappeared.
Independent Study: Independent study lessons may be accomplished when the student is away from the classroom. These studies could involve a student's beloved pet or a likely nature study students may participate in when on vacation or during a school closure. Students also may need a lesson or two if they are sick in bed at home. For these lessons I have chosen a few animals that students are likely to be familiar with and therefore comfortable in observing them outside of the classroom.
- Study The Cat - The Cat belongs to the order Felidæ, the group to which the lion, tiger, leopard, puma or panther, and lynx belong
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