Zoology-Science for 2009-2010

Spring is the time I plan for what we will be doing next year. I will be typing up my plans and creating links for them in the sidebar. For science I work off a rotation between the following subjects: one year we do chemistry, the next physics, the next biology. The coming school year we are scheduled to do biology, but I thought I would narrow it down a bit to zoology. We will be using several sources for our year in zoology....Lyrical Life Science Volume 1-We will use only the first part of this book.

Lyrical Life Science-Volume 2A few lapbooks from In the Hands of a Child: Animal Classification, Invertebrates, Ecosystems, one of the habitat lapbooksAnimal lapbooks from Homeschool Share. This is where we will get the majority of our lapbook materials. All free!!!!

Zoology Schedule

LLS-Lyrical Life Science unit: includes song, reading, and worksheet

HOAC-Hands of a Child lapbook

HSS-Homeschool Share lapbook

Week 1: LLS: All Living Things, Animal Cell Jello Model

Week 2: HOAC: Animal Classification lapbook

Weeks 3 and 4: LLS: Invertebrates, HOAC: Invertebrates Lapbook

Week 5: LLS: Cold-blooded vertebrates, Glow in the Dark Fish activity

Week 6: LLS: Birds, Pick a bird, draw and write about it.

Weeks 7, 8, and 9: LLS: Mammals, LLS: Marsupials and Monotremes, HSS lapbook: choose platypus or marsupials

Weeks 10 and 11: LLS: Carnivores and Pinnipeds, HSS lapbook: choose tigers, wild dogs, wolf, meerkats, panda, cheetah, bears, or raccoon

Weeks 12 and 13: LLS: Hoofed Mammals, HSS lapbook: choose pigs, camels, zebras, giraffe, rhino

Weeks 14 and 15: LLS: Primates, HSS lapbook: Monkeys

Weeks 16 and 17: LLS: Rodents, Read Capyboppy

Week 18: LLS: Rodent-like Mammals, Draw and Write about an animal in this category.

Weeks 19 and 20: LLS: Bats, HSS lapbook pieces from Stellaluna unit or HOAC bats lapbook

Week 21 and 22: LLS: Insectivores, HSS Hedgehog lapbook

Week 23: LLS: Toothless Mammals, HSS Sloth lapbook

Weeks 24 and 25: LLS: Whales, HSS lapbook: choose whales or dolphins

Weeks 26 and 27: LLS: Sirenians, HSS Manatee lapbook

Week 28: LLS: Single Family Orders, Draw and Write about an animal in this category

Weeks 29, 30, and 31: LLS: Biomes, HOAC lapbook: deserts, forest, grasslands, mountains, oceans, polar, or rainforests

Weeks 32, 33, 34: LLS: Ecology, HOAC Ecosystems lapbook

Weeks 35 and 36: Extra weeks to complete tasks