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The Ultimate Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the Amazon Rain Forest

April 23, 2017 | Leave a Comment
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In preparing this ultimate guide to the flora and fauna of the Amazon rainforest, I’ve collect resources to enhance a study of the Rain Forest Amazon by gathering resources that focus just on the flora and fauna of the rain forest.

I fondly remember our family trek in the Amazon Rain Forest while living in South America and I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart when learning about it. Having studied the Amazon Rainforest numerous times, we still find fascinating topics to study about.

Because of the sheer number of critters, creatures and creeping things as well as lush plants and trees that exists abundantly in the rain forest, I feel any guide can only touch the fringes of what can be learned. However, I do hope like my other Amazon Rain Forest resources, you’ll find this one equally helpful as you and your kids uncover the fascinating treasures of the Amazon Rain Forest.

Remember to add my HUGE free unit study Tropical Rain Forest – Amazon, or Amazonia in South America, which consists of multiple lapbooks for different ages, Rain Forest – Animals of the Amazon and Tropical Rainforest Amazon Free Resources – Teachers Guides, Crafts, Lesson Plans to this unit study.

The Ultimate Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the Amazon Rain Forest

Tropical Rainforest Amazon

Brazil Wildlife-Episode 1.
Rainforest Letter “R” Printables.
Rainforest Animals Counting 1 – 10 Printable.
Rainforest Slideshow.
Virtual Field Trip – Amazon Rainforest.
Rainforest in a Box.
Rainforest Unit for younger children.
Animals of South America.
Animals of the Rainforest Worksheet.

Rainforest Worksheets
Rainforest Word Search.
Rainforest Unit Study.
3-D Diorama of the Amazon Rainforest.
Compare Flora and Fauna of the Temperate Forest and Rain Forest.
Make a 3-d triarama.
Rainforest Lesson Plans.
Rainforest Lesson Plans – with Powerpoint
Rainforest Plant Database.
Amazon Water Cycle.

Rainforest Plant and Animal Coloring Pages.
Food of the Amazon.
Free Rainforest Curricula. PreK-8th
Rainforest Animals and Plant Life Video.
Free Plants and Animals in the Tropical Rain Forest Biome Cards.
Tropical Rainforest Biome – pdf with tons of pictures and facts.
Amazon Rainforest – interactive.
Rainforest Butterflies and more – video.
Amazon Interactive.
Lesson Plan: Rainforest Adaptations.

Food Chains in the Amazon.
Guide to Fruit in Brazil.
Design a Rainforest Postcard.
Creatures of the Amazon Rainforest
Trekking in the Amazon.
Rainforest Tree Root Systems.
Layers of the Rainforest – fine motor skills.
Journey into Amazonia – teacher resources.
Rainforest Curriculum.

Flora of the Amazon Rainforest

Trees of the Amazon Rain Forest

Plants of the Amazon Rain Forest

DIY Rainforest Terrarium.
Jambu (Toothache) Plant.
Maracuya (Passion) Fruit.
Passion Fruit Mousse Recipe.
Do Medicines Grow on Plants and Trees.
Bougainvillea.
Bougainvillea Tips and Facts.
Amazon Rainforest Plants.
Passion Flower.

Fauna of the Amazon Rainforest

Are you interested in more about the Amazon Rainforest?

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American Robin Free Printables, Resources and Crafts

March 1, 2016 | 11 Comments
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I rounded up some fun American Robin free printables, resources, and crafts to kick off a spring unit study.

American Robin Unit Study Ideas

We pulled out the chalk pastels today, used our Chalk Pastel reference tutorial book that we love, which by the way was created by a homeschool mom and Tiny decided to sketch and do a chalk pastel of the American Robin.

A Seasonal Start in Spring Chalk Pastels

By the way, there is a guide for each season. I love this download because Tiny can read through it on his own.

The American Robin – First Sign of Spring

Sketch of the American Robin @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Like his mom, Tiny is not comfortable with art. However, with some coaxing to change the pace of our day, he pulled out the chalk pastels.

I have tried my best through the years to be sure each son views art as enrichment and pleasure. The emphasis has always been on the pleasure of art and not so much the product.

American Robin Chalk Pastel @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

However, I think he did quite well with this American Robin. Of course, he had to sketch it first so it would be “perfect”.

American Robin Free Printables, Resources and Crafts

I tried to talk him out of it and to use the pastels to free flow, but he really liked the way it came out and more importantly, we enjoyed a change in pace.

We read some online about American Robins and enjoyed listening to the sound of them too. We’ll be looking out to see one or two this year also.

I gathered up some free and fun resources to help round out a unit study or quick study.

North American Red Robin Free Lapbook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Free Printables & Reference

American Robin lapbook
American Robin Menu
American Robin 3 page information
Coloring Page

American Robin Facts for Kids
Fun Facts About the Robin
6 page pdf. along with helpful map, habitat and facts.
Robin bird house plans for a nest shelf
Several American Robin Coloring Pages

Story of Robin Eggs
Bird Feather Types – scroll down close to the end of the page. Nice pictures of feathers and beaks.
Free printable critical reading passage with answers.
Easy find the bird crossword puzzle
How to identify a robin’s nest

50 page pdf download coloring pages of different birds, including the American Robin
Grab my free printables for a bird notebook

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Photos, Crafts and YouTube American Robin

Footprint American Robin. Isn’t that the cutest thing ever? What a perfect spring keepsake!
YouTube Mamma bird feeding her young video. There is a cool scene in this video. It is must watch, I but don’t like the music. (so distracting)
American Robin Mini-Documentary YouTube
Eggs hatching photos
Making a rockin’ robin with a cereal box

Paper craft robin
American Robin at a Glance

I hope you can use some of these free and fun resources to squeeze in a few days of learning about spring and the American Red Robin.

You’ll love these other crafts and ideas:

Hugs and love ya,

American Robin Free Printables, Resources and Crafts @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

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Beautiful Human Body Lapbook and Fun Unit Study

October 23, 2015 | 39 Comments
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I have a free human body unit study. Also, I have this Human Body Crafts page for more hands-on ideas.

Taa, daa. It’s here. The completed human body lapbook. Have you been following along as we did our huge human body lapbook and unit study?

We have had a ton of fun with our human body unit study and today, I want to give you one more minibook about the eye and some clip art to go on the outside of the book.

First, did you notice we turned this lapbook landscape?

Human Body Lapbook

The human body lapbook was free for a limited time.

It was so big and we used a legal size file folder too. So we added all the books we did inside and the pictures above will help you to see where we placed our books.

Of course, like I always say, you can use as many of mine as you want to and mix and match other things you want so that the lapbook reflects what you want to teach your kids.

That is one reason I also share my minibooks separately. Sometimes you want to mix and match.

Too, we added one more picture, which is a visual labeling the different parts of the eye and we simply glued that onto our page because this unit was getting big for us.

Tiny was ready to move on to another topic, but I wanted to be sure he was familiar with the parts of the eye too.

Don’t you just love it when you have way more activities to do and then just have to stop so that you can move on?

Eye book @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Also, I created several different pieces to decorate the outside of the lapbook flaps.

You can use any free color pages or use these three pieces of a cover page I have below.

Human Body Lapbook Title Choice of 3 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool PLus1

Human Body Lapbook Title Choice of 3 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool PLus

Human Body Lapbook Title Choice of 3 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool PLus3

Also, I included body clip art with the name of the organ above it.

Tiny wrote in the name of the organ, colored it and he cut them out to place on the outside of his lapbook. I include a few other decorative pieces to go on the outside flap of your lapbook.

I hope you love them and I hope you love this unit study as much as we have.

Body Parts clip art @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

You can download the lapbook below.

Dynamic and Fun Human Body Lapbook for Multiple Ages
$5.00 Add to cart

More Human Body Unit Study Resources

What is blood hands on activity and free blood components minibook for a human body homeschool unit study @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus featured — Making Blood + Free What Are the Components of Blood Minibook

Homeschool Unit Study Human Body. Hands-on Activity 5. Edible Skin + Skin and Major Body Systems Minibook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus Featured — Making Blood + Free What Are the Components of Blood Minibook

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Edible Skin Project and Free Homeschool Human Body Unit Study

October 21, 2015 | 2 Comments
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This edible skin project is the next fun hands-on for our human body unit study. Also I have this Human Body Crafts page for more fun ideas.

Right away, I will tell you we had more fun though a flop (or we at least thought so) with our edible skin project for our homeschool unit study human body.

Edible Skin Project and Free Homeschool Human Body Unit Study

You know I tout that I do my best to use what we have here in the house. Sometimes it turns out well and other times not so good.

Too, some things we don’t have in the house because well they don’t exist here in Cuenca or at least the part we live at here in Ecuador.

Things like ready made icings I can’t find.

Homeschool Unit Study Human Body. Hands-on Activity 5. Edible Skin + Skin and Major Body Systems Minibook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

The human body lapbook was free for a limited time.

So for this project I had the heavenly dulce de leche in the house.

By the way, have you ever heard of it?

It is basically translated sweet milk and it is made by caramelizing sugar in milk.

This heavenly stuff though takes hours to make home made, is sold readily on the store shelves here and was the closest thing I had to icing for our edible skin project today.

Edible Skin Project @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus 1

Edible Skin Project @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus 2

Look at what we grabbed and had made:

■ jello. We actually have to make this and though normally it doesn’t matter how thick it is when we eat it, it did this time.
■marshmallows (tiny ones work good too, but they don’t have them here)
■gummy worms
■ dulce de leche (a fruit roll up would have worked better or an icing, but then again we don’t have that here either in Ecuador.)
■few toothpicks

So Tiny took about 6 of the marshmallows and laid them out. We pushed a few toothpicks through them to hold them together.

Going good so far.

Edible Skin Project @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus 3

Edible Skin Project @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus 4

Then we took our not so solid jello and layered on top, then the fun mess started.

Tiny tried to plow through like a trooper by adding the dulce de leche, but our edible skin was looking more like an explosion by a five year old.

Edible Skin Project @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus 5

Tiny was intent on finishing it and added a few gummy worms for hair follicles.

Of course, he had to look over it for a while. We both lost it laughing, but thought it was the most delicious flop we had tasted in a while.

I have the next two minibooks for the heart lapbook.

More Human Body Crafts

I am just about ready to show you where we placed them on the lapbook. It’s almost completed.

Grab all of the lapbook printables and hands-on activities below.

Homeschool Unit Study Human Body. Hands-on Activity 4. Making Blood + What Are the Components of Blood Minibook

October 14, 2015 | 7 Comments
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No unit study about the homeschool unit study human body is done right without making some blood and learning about the valuable components of it. Also, I have this Human Body Crafts page for more fun ideas.

The human body lapbook was free for a limited time.

Homeschool Unit Study Human Body. Hands-on Making Blood + What Are the Components of Blood

What is Blood Made of?

Besides, that is the best way to learn about the four basic components of blood.

At the bottom, I shared the video that helped us to kick off this activity and also helped us to pick out the ingredients.

What is blood hands on activity and blood components minibook for a human body homeschool unit study @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Look at the ingredients we used, again, which we had on hand at the house.

■plastic bottle
■marshmallows (we only the big ones, so we cut up a few of the big ones)
■mini box of chocolate cereal that the boys didn’t like
■raisins
■corn syrup and water
■yellow and red die
■salt

How to Make Blood 1@ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

How to Make Blood 2 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

So after we gathered all of our supplies and a funnel and bowl or two, we started.

First Tiny poured the corn syrup in and mixed with a bit of water (not too much).

Mostly we used the corn syrup because I wanted it to look more like blood plasma in the beginning.

How to Make Blood 3 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

How To Make Blood 4 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Homeschool Unit Study Human Body.

So he added yellow dye and some salt to represent the plasma.

We added salt to help him remember that though plasma is mostly made up of water, it also contains proteins, sugar and hormones. So adding the salt was just to help him remember some of the make up of plasma.

How to Make Blood 5 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

How to Make Blood 6 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Next, we took our chocolate cereal and mixed in some red dye and coated it pretty good.

I liked the fact that the “red blood cells” started to give it color because they make up about 40 to 45% of the color.

Since red blood cells are round and look a little bit like a doughnut, without the hole in the middle, this round cereal was a pretty good imitation.

He started to add in the red dyed cereal to represent the red blood cells (or erythrocytes).

How to Make Blood 7 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

How To Make Blood 8 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Next came a bite or two of marshmallows or rather he added in some of the white marshmallows to represent the white blood cells (or leukocytes), but not too many of them.

Since I had raisins, we added a few of them to represent blood platelets (or thrombocytes).

How to Make Blood 9 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

How To Make Blood 10 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

We ended up with something nice and gross that he liked, but it sure helped him to remember the 4 basic components of blood.

Also, here are some free resources about blood:

Middle School Lesson Plan. 3 page .pdf How does the Cardiovascular system work? Actually lessons for K to 6th.
Another hands-on activity. Blood Cell basics for younger grades.
How Much Blood Do You Have? 20 page .pdf for middle and high school
Cool wheel template 7 page .pdf template wheel for middle and high school teaching blood type.
What is Blood? You Tube Really helpful to us when deciding how to color our blood, meaning we started with yellow first.

How to Make Blood 11 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

More Human Body Crafts

Dynamic and Fun Human Body Lapbook for Multiple Ages
$5.00 Add to cart

Grab all of hands-on activities below.

Hope you like this as much as we enjoyed learning about it today.
Hugs and love ya,

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