A homeschool notebook is your best tool to explore zoology.
So, whether you’re learning about insects, mammals, birds, or reptiles, a zoology notebook is a fun way to keep all the information organized.
Too, a notebooking page can be done by any age. It makes a great tool for storing the information your child is learning.
And a notebook can be anything like a spiral, file folder or 3 ring binder. Learners can add minibooks or write reports, draw or illustrate and label pictures to show what they have learned.
Basically, it’s a place where your children can keep all the things they are learning.
Additionally, it has several advantages than just doing worksheet pages. Like a fun scrapbook, each learner can make their notebook and notebooking pages unique.
It works well for learning any topic and today we’re doing one for studying zoology.
BOOKS AND RESOURCES TO USE FOR ZOOLOGY NOTEBOOK
In addition, we use living books for our notebooks.
Too, a reference book is a good science spine.
8 Resources for Multiple Ages Who Love Learning About Zoology
I have listed curriculum help to fun hands-on manipulatives for little kids to games and books which even older learners will enjoy.
This jungle animal figures set was made by hand painted with high realistically detailed appearance, cute face and childish eyes. Their uniquely molded textures and richly painted details make the animals vivid. Children would like to spend more time to observe and play with them.
THE BEST OF NATURE: Bring the wonder of the great outdoors into your home with the Nature Toob! Including a rabbit, beaver, doe, cardinal, gray wolf, fox, raccoon, black bear, moose, mountain lion, bald eagle, and a bison, this Toob has all kinds of unique animals that fly, hop and saunter!
FUN FACTS: Journey through the Wildlife of North America discovering facts about our continent’s most interesting animals. From Polar Bears to Pronghorns, from Alligators to Bald Eagles, this game is perfect for young nature lovers.
Use Professor Noggin Pets card game as a fun way to learn about animals and as an opportunity to discuss the responsibility of owning a pet.
Books and
A unit study done really well if you want something put together.
For kids interested in Marine Biologist and learning about interesting sea creatures like the Brittle Stars and aquatic mammals like the Fur Seal.
This is a creative research handbook for students ages 8-17 and up who love earning about extinct, endangered, and mysterious animals. This curriculum handbook is designed to help students study each animal using books, videos, internet, encyclopedias, and any other parent-approved learning tool.
Give your students the reinforcement they need with the 128-page comprehensive Biology Workbook for grades 6–12. Designed to aid in the review and practice of biology topics such as matter and atoms, cells, classifying animals, genetics, plant and animal structures, human body systems, and ecological relationships, this book includes realistic diagrams and engaging activities to support practice in all areas of
biology.
Also, look at more zoology activities to add to your zoology homeschool notebook.
MORE ZOOLOGY ACTIVITIES
- How to Create a Homeschool Zoology Unit Without a Curriculum and Cute Fox Craft (notebooking pages)
- How Animals Survive Harsh Winters Fun Blubber Activity
- Easy Hands-on Science: Animal Camouflage Activity Hunt
- Bird Unit Study and Lapbook And Fun Edible Bird Nests
- How Animals Cope With the Cold
- Animals of the Galapagos Islands
- 6 World Wildlife Day Activities to Learn About African Lions
- Egg to Sea Turtle Lesson Plans & Lapbook
- Horse Unit Study for Your Horse Loving Kids
- Deer Unit Study & Notebooking Pages
- Black Bear Unit Study and Fun Edible Bear Poop
- Free North American Robin Bird Lapbook and Fun Homeschool Unit Study Ideas
- Toad and Frog Lapbook and Fun Homeschool Unit Study Ideas
- Ocean Lapbook and Fun Homeschool Unit Study Ideas
- Beautiful Bald Eagle Fun Facts And Torn Paper Bird Craft
Also, look at these homeschool notebooking pages.
I cover history, science and even geography with some of our notebooking pages.
HOMESCHOOL NOTEBOOKING PAGES
- Edible Rock Cycle Fudge | Hands-on Rock Activities & Free Notebooking Pages
- History Makers Notebooking Pages – Famous Persons from Ancient to Modern – Set 2
- Free Printable Strawberry Notebooking Pages
- How To Make Puffy Paint Planets And Free Notebooking Pages
- 2 Fun Chemistry for Kids Experiments & John Dalton Notebooking Pages
- Fun Kids Dandelion Flower Unit Study and Easy Tea Recipe & Notebooking Pages
- 9 Free South America Country Reports for Kids Notebooking Pages
- Grades 1 to 8 Free Homeschool Art Curriculum and Printable Notebooking Pages
- How Do Sharks Float STEM Activity Free Shark Unit Study & Notebooking Pages
- Learn About Daniel Boone Hunting With a Fun Deer Unit Study & Notebooking Pages
- George Washington Carver Fun Peanut Quick Unit Study & Notebooking Pages
- Easy and Fun Who Is Geronimo Stilton Rodent Notebooking Page
- 22 Famous Texans Notebooking Pages (editable) For a Fun History Study
Finally, look at how easy it is to get started.
HOW TO MAKE A HOMESCHOOL NOTEBOOK FOR YOUR ZOOLOGY UNIT STUDY
First, you will need these following supplies.
- A notebook- lined, unlined, whatever
- Reference books and our favorite at the moment, Anthology of Intriguing Animals
- Pencils,crayons, colored pencils etc.
- Stickers, magazine pictures, photographs
Next, let your child decorate their notebook on the outside, giving it a title, drawing pictures, using stickers, magazine cut outs or prints of their favorite animals from the web.
This gives them ownership over their notebook and infuses it with their personality.
Then, grab your reference book and then use the internet to find whatever other facts you need.
Now the rest is up to you, decide what your child puts in their notebook based on their age and ability but I am going to give you a lot of ideas to help you get started.
Actually, I recommend creating a baseline of information you would like them to include and have them repeat the same format for every animal.
- Write the animals name.
- Draw the animal.
- Draw its footprint.
- Kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, family, and species.
- Food chain/web
- Habitat
- Lifespan
- Endangered, vulnerable, extinct
- Is it predator, prey, or both?
Furthermore, include photos you take on field trips, printed images of the animals, you can type your required headers and let your child fill it out and then glue it in.
This is just a starting point; it can be as simple or as involved as you like.
Encourage your child to get creative and use color, make sections for different information, and include lots of details.
This will go far in helping your learner remember all the information they are taking in.
Further, if you are using markers make sure your notebook has a thicker paper or keep a thick piece of paper between the page you are working on and the one behind it so it doesn’t bleed through.
The Anthology of Intriguing Animals was such a lovely resource, we enjoyed the realistic photos and the vintage feel of the book.
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