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Free Mammals Lapbook for Kids Who Love Hands-on Science

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I have a free mammals lapbook and resources today for a fun study about mammals. Too, on my Homeschool Lapbooks – Powerful Tools For Mastery Learning page you can find more free homeschool lapbooks.

From tiny bats and mice to enormous elephants and whales, mammals live in almost every type of environment on Earth. And a study of mammals can go far beyond simply learning the names of different animals. It can introduce important concepts in zoology, biology, ecology, classification, anatomy and habitats.

Free Mammals Lapbook for Kids Who Love Hands-on Science

Adding a mammal lapbook to your homeschool study gives your kids a hands-on way to organize all the information they learn. Too, a mammal study provides a natural way to connect several areas of life science.

First, begin by asking a question like what is a mammal.

Then look at these traits.

  • Mammals are vertebrates.
  • Mammals are warm-blooded, or endothermic.
  • Mammals have hair or fur at some point during their lives.
  • Female mammals have mammary glands that produce milk for their young.
  • Mammals breathe air using lungs.
  • Most mammals give birth to live young.

Also, mammals live in an amazing variety of environments. For example, kids can investigate mammals from underground habitats, deserts, grasslands, forests, mountains, Arctic regions, oceans, and wetlands.

Also, add books about mammals to your day.

BOOKS ABOUT MAMMALS FOR KIDS

We prefer living books when we can find them.

Then add reference books to our home library and to our day while doing our lapbooks.

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.

Next, look at some hands-on activities about mammals.

FUN HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES ABOUT MAMMALS FOR KIDS

Free Mammals Lapbook for Kids Who Love Hands-on Science

Last, look at the minibooks included in this free download.

FREE MAMMALS LAPBOOK MINIBOOKS INCLUDED:

  • Mammal groups
  • Did You Know . . .
  • Discovering Mammals
  • Mammal Research Flipbook
  • Where Do Mammals Live
  • Meet the Mammals
  • Types of Mammals

Now, how to grab the freebie.

It’s a subscriber freebie.

HOW TO GET THE FREE MAMMALS LAPBOOK

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7 Picture Books About Science For Kids Who Love Visual Learning

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Take a look at these 7 picture books about science for kids: oversized, fantastic illustrations, and wonderful kid-friendly information.

If you have a kid who learns best with their eyes, who studies every corner of an illustration before they even listen to the words, then big, beautifully illustrated science picture books are pure magic to them.

7 Picture Books About Science For Kids Who Love Visual Learning

One series that does this better than almost anyone else is the Big Book of… series by Yuval Zommer. Each title in this oversized, large-format series pairs whimsical watercolor illustrations with genuinely meaty nonfiction.

They are fun enough for a 4-year-old to flip through on their own, detailed enough that an 8- to 10-year-old will still pull it off the shelf for reference. This range is what makes the series so good for a mixed-age family or co-op situation.

BOOK BY BOOK-HANDS-ON PROJECTS FOR PICTURE BOOKS ABOUT SCIENCE

Then here are some hands-on activities to add to these science picture books for kids.

BUGS BOOK HANDS-ON IDEAS

BEASTS BOOK HANDS-ON IDEAS

  • Make plaster salt-dough animal track casts and match them to the “paw print” spotting game in the book.
  • Sort animal photos or toy figures into the book’s categories: mythical beasts, Ice Age beasts, beasts on your street, endangered beasts.
  • Design a “backyard beast” habitat diorama for an animal that actually lives near your house (raccoon, possum, squirrel).

THE BLUE BOOK HANDS-ON IDEAS

  •  Build an ocean-layer diorama in a shoebox or flat like this How To Make A Fun Intertidal Zone Diorama. 
  • Make a salt-crystal “sea star” or explore density with a homemade ocean-layers jar (oil, water, food coloring).
  • Sort toy sea creatures by how they breathe underwater (gills, lungs, skin) using the book’s opening spread as a guide.

BIRD BOOK HANDS-ON IDEAS

  • Build a simple pinecone-and-peanut-butter bird feeder or other type of simple feeder, then keep a backyard bird-watching log using the species pictured in the book. 
  • Make a bird-beak matching game: cut different “beak” shapes (tweezers, clothespin, spoon) and test which “beak” picks up which pretend food (seeds, worms, nectar).
  • Start a nest-building challenge: give kids twigs, grass, and mud and see if they can engineer a nest that holds an egg (a small ball) without collapsing.

BLOOMS BOOK HANDS-ON IDEAS

  • Press flowers from a walk and build a labeled botany journal page; here are directions for How to Easily Make a Simple and Fun Kids DIY Flower Press.
  • Grow a bean or sunflower seed in a clear cup so kids can watch the life cycle described in the book unfold in real time.
  • Build a paper Venus flytrap that “snaps shut”  to explore how carnivorous plants work.
  • Do a flower dissection scavenger hunt: find and label petals, stem, stamen, and pistil on a real flower.

NATURE ART BOOK HANDS-ON IDEAS

  • Just open it; the 22 projects inside are already designed to be five-minute, low-mess, natural-materials crafts, so this book is the hands-on activity list.
  • Pick one project a week and pair it with a nature walk to gather that week’s materials (twigs, seed pods, leaves) beforehand.

BELONGING BOOK HANDS-ON IDEAS

  • Have your child sort plastic animals by various traits: those that live in the water, those with spots, those that use camouflage, nocturnal vs. diurnal animals.
  • Do a fingerprint/pattern lab: take everyone’s fingerprints and compare them to zebra stripes or cowrie shell patterns from the book, and talk about how no two are identical.
  • Try a “communicate without words” game (like the fava beans’ chemical signals or reef squid’s color changes) using only gestures or colored cards.
7 Picture Books About Science For Kids Who Love Visual Learning

The Big Book series is a fantastic anchor, but round out the shelf with a few other visual-learning standouts. These are mostly series books with the same vibe as the Big Book of Series.

5 MORE SCIENCE PICTURE BOOKS WORTH ADDING

  1. Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty (1 of 7 in a series) – A cute rhyming story about a young scientist’s curiosity, great for framing “what does a scientist actually do?”
  2. What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page– Cut-paper collage illustrations turn animal-adaptation facts into a guessing game.
  3. National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book series (Space, Animals, Ocean, and more) — shorter and simpler than Zommer’s books, a good bridge for younger visual learners.
  4. Nature Anatomy by Julia Rothman  (1 of 6 in the series)- technically this is an art-meets-science reference guide rather than a picture book, but it belongs on the same shelf; older elementary kids will pull it out again and again. 
  5. Over and Under the Pond / Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner (1 of a series of 9)- A quieter, more narrative nonfiction with soft illustrations, good for a slower-paced read-aloud on habitat and season.

And look at these other picture books.

Below is the full rundown of the series. 

Finally, add the hands-on project ideas that use the physical books themselves (yes, even use as spines) as teaching tools.

7 Picture Books About Science

There are also sticker and activity companions for several titles (Beasts, Bugs, Birds, the Blue, Blooms) if your visual learner wants to interact with the content rather than just read it, and board-book versions (Little Snail's Book of Bugs, Little Bee's Book of Blooms, Little Robin's Book of Birds) for their younger siblings.

Free Trees Lapbook For Kids Who Love Hands-on Science

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I have a free trees lapbook and resources today for a fun study about trees. Too, on my Homeschool Lapbooks – Powerful Tools For Mastery Learning page you can find more free homeschool lapbooks.

And studying trees can bring together botany, biology, ecology, earth science, geography, math, and environmental science in one natural science unit study for an older study. With a younger student, they can start learning the parts of a tree.

Free Trees Lapbook For Kids Who Love Hands-on Science

A tree study is a great introduction to botany without making science feel abstract. Instead of only reading about plant structures in a textbook, kids can go outside and study trees.

They can examine bark, compare leaves, look for seeds, measure trunks, study roots, observe insects, and notice differences among tree species.

Use my lapbook as a segue into a deeper study. For example, older kids are ready to go beyond simply identifying the roots, trunk, branches, and leaves.

Next, add some of these books about trees to your unit study and to this lapbook.

BOOKS ABOUT TREES FOR KIDS

We prefer living books when we can find them.

And then we add reference books or field guides as we need them.

9 Tree Books & Resources for Kids Who Love Reading and Being Read To

You'll love using one of these books as a science reference or to use for art to inspire life science lessons.

Next, look at some more hands-on tree activities.

FUN HANDS-ON TREE ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS

Free Trees Lapbook For Kids Who Love Hands-on Science

Last, look at the minibooks included in this free download.

FREE TREES LAPBOOK MINIBOOKS INCLUDED:

  • All About Trees
  • Parts of a Tree
  • Common Tree Forms
  • Tree Life Cycle
  • Fun Facts About Trees
  • Why We Need Trees
  • What is a Tree
  • My Tree Promise

Now, how to grab the freebie.

It’s a subscriber freebie

HOW TO GET THE FREE TREES LAPBOOK

That means when you sign up to follow me, you get my emails in your inbox and you get this freebie.

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Free Magnet Lapbook Science And Resources for Kids

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I have a free magnet lapbook science and resources today for a fun study about magnets. Too, on my Homeschool Lapbooks – Powerful Tools For Mastery Learning page you can find more free homeschool lapbooks.

A magnet lapbook can turn an ordinary science topic into an interactive exploration of forces, materials, energy, electricity, and technology.

Free Magnet Lapbook Science And Resources for Kids

And studying magnets provides an opportunity to explore invisible forces, conduct experiments, make observations, and discover how magnetic fields work

Magnets can attract certain materials without even touching them.

They can push and pull on other magnets, and their force can act through objects.

KIDS BOOKS ABOUT PHYSICAL SCIENCE

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Physical science varies in topic. It can cover states of matter, forces and motion like push and pull, forms of energy like simple circuits, light and sound to earth and space.

Then look at some resources and activities about magnets.

ACTIVITIES & RESOURCES TO STUDY MAGNETS

Free Magnet Lapbook Science And Resources for Kids

Last, look the minibooks included in this free download.

FREE MAGNET LAPBOOK MINIBOOKS

  • What Happens When We Put 2 Magnets Together
  • Did You Know
  • Magnets What is a Magnet
  • Separating Mixtures
  • The Earth is a Giant Magnet
  • Earth Has Magnetic Poles

Now, how to grab the freebie.

It’s a subscriber freebie.

HOW TO GET THE FREE MAGNET LAPBOOK

That means when you sign up to follow me, you get my emails in your inbox and you get this freebie.

1) CLICK HERE ON THIS LINK TO SIGN UP ON MY EMAIL LIST & TO GET THIS FREEBIE

2) Grab the freebie instantly.

3) Last, look for all my emails in your inbox. Glad to have you following me!

19 Fun Hands-on Rainforest Activities for Kindergarten

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I have 19 hands-on rainforest activities for kindergarten. Too, grab more kindergarten activities on my Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum page. Also, look at my pages Rain Forest – Animals of the Amazon, Rain Forest – Amazon, and Rainforest Activities for Kids for more ideas.

And learning about the rainforest is a fun subject to cover for any grade including kindergarten.

Too, teaching children at the kindergarten age should include hands-on activities and should be play-based.

19 Fun Hands-on Rainforest Activities for Kindergarten

Kindergarten learners can discover the rainforest through their senses. And the word “rain forest” denotes the fact that these are the some of the world’s wettest ecosystems.

While exploring nature, they learn through the sense of smell, hearing, taste, and touch.

So, you’ll want to include learning through the senses and a full immersion into the world of nature.

If you have room in your learning space, create a play-based Amazon theme area. Make the jungle come alive through music and props.

AMAZON RAINFOREST ANIMALS

First, begin with what kids this age love and that is animals.

There are many Amazon rainforest animals which your child can focus on.

A few animals which can ignite your child’s love for the wealth of the life that lives in the rainforest are:

  • Jaguars
  • Toucans
  • Iguanas
  • Giant Ant Eaters
  • Kinkajou also called honey bears
  • Harpy Eagles
  • Piranhas
  • Sloth and
  • Butterflies
  • Red and Green Macaw

And look at this ANIMALS OF THE WILD AMAZON Coloring Book for Kids & Adults: Learn about nature of the Rainforest.

Besides the animals are really what excites your kids when learning about the rainforest.

19 Fun Hands-on Rainforest Activities for Kindergarten

You’ll love the page I have here Rain Forest – Animals of the Amazon where your children can see more pictures.

RAINFOREST ACTIVITIES

Next, I have many rainforest activities for kids of all ages, but your kindergarten aged children will love putting together this fun lapbook.

Actually, my lapbooks are for multiple ages and are mix and match. Not all kids, especially kindergarten are on at the same level. That is perfectly normal.

Kids this age can be reading beginning chapter books, and some are still learning letter sounds. All of this is well within the range of normal for this age.

The point is kids love learning and this is the time for projects. And look how fun this is: Melissa & Doug Stamp-a-Scene Stamp Set: Rain Forest – 20 Wooden Stamps.

For example, look at these free Amazon rainforest lapbooks.

19 Fun Hands-on Rainforest Activities for Kindergarten

Look here to read about my free Amazon Rainforest Lapbooks.

19 Fun Hands-on Rainforest Activities for Kindergarten

OTHER KINDERGARTEN RESOURCES

Look at some of these other kindergarten resources.

19 Fun Hands-on Rainforest Activities for Kindergarten

Look at the 19 crafts below. I know you’ll find one or two that will add some fun to your child’s learning day.

Rainforest Activities

Kindergarten learning should be about hands-on crafts, moving, singing and learning that is play- based or crafts.

These rainforest crafts can be done by all your kids but especially your kindergarten aged children.