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What child doesn't love animals, for that matter what adult doesn't like animals!! Even if people don't like all animals, they have one type of animal that makes their heart go ~AWE!! SO I thought that I would share some of our favorite sites,etc. on the subject of animals!! Feel free to shout right back with any of your favs!!
We are a family of watchers here.... OK maybe that sounds wrong but it is true, HA! So we have a ton of sites that we rotate thru spending time watching all the animal cams out there. I love this one for zoo animal cams, this is one for an African animal cam by the old watering hole, our favorite owl "Molly" famous web cam (well famous to us!), and yes even goat cams that we recently found out about!!LOL Friends were waiting for these goats to even birth on the 24 hour web cam! I think our favorite right now is the African web cam, we have seen lots of animals that the boys love in their natural habitat.
Then come the animal educational sites, and oh the amount of sites I could list from online animal games to educational sites like WWF and National Geographic (two of our favorites) to animal activist sites that need your help to save one animal species at a time. One such place that we would love to visit is the Australia Zoo, once the stomping ground of the famous Steve Irwin. Hubby and I first saw this guy with his new wife Terry back in the 90s, we both were hooked by his style of getting involved with the crocs!
Lastly, here are a couple of great sites that offer a wide range of animal unit studies. Discovery Kids, has some great animal lesson plans for k-12; Secular Homeschool, has some great secular animal unit studies that members of the site have shared; Farm animal lessons for Pre-k is a fun one for those of you with younger kiddos; The Humane Society has some great free pet lessons and then there is Switcharoo Zoo creative writing lessons with some great animal prompts.
So what are doing to nourish your animal lover?
Great post! Thanks for the links. My son adores animals -- all kinds. He went through stage when he was younger when he was especially attracted to ocean animals. We have done so many things to encourage him in this regard, I can't list it all, but we've had a membership to the aquarium, and we've visited the zoo several times, and there's a free, small zoo near us that we go to too. He's also learned a lot about animals in his classes at the nature center. We watched a lot of nature programs on Netflix too. Ever since he was 2, we've been making animals out of paper, and we've made an ocean on our bulletin board once, and we also had a tree up there once with animals that live in a tree. Lately my son has been initiating a game of charades each night where we all act like an animals and the others try to guess what we are. I've been really impressed with my son's knowledge of minor details about animals!
ReplyDeleteYou are so welcome:) AND I totally forgot about the ocean animals, DOH!! It is amazing to me how my boys can remember things about the animals and reptiles but can't remember to take up their clean clothes!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing some of your experiences and the resources you have used. I love the tree idea!! The charades game sounds like fun. Youngest does a pretty good dog bark, and his dog does a great fire engine siren!!
Molly and McGee! The owls! I forgot about those!! What time of year is that webcam live...do you remember?
ReplyDeleteWeird it was streaming the other day?? Here is another set of owls that are showing as live right now Mel & Sydney~ http://www.sportsmansparadiseonline.com/Oceanside_Barn_Owls.html
ReplyDeleteAlex watched these non-stop when he did his owl unit study.
awwww....those ones are already hatched, too...aren't they ugly and adorable???!!! :D LOL
ReplyDeleteyes ugly and cute at the same time... weird!
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