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Animal Tracks (Footprints) and Activity
Activity
Choose an animal to learn more about.
Make lots of animal tracks and place them around the room, house, or
school.
Have your children or students look for the animal tracks.
Have a picture or photo of the animal at the end of the tracks.
As you tell them more about that animal, have them color the animal.
(Remember to look on all my pages for coloring pages.)
Animal
Autographs @ Missouri Department of Convervation Red fox, gray fox,
coyote, striped skunk, woodchuck, cottontail rabbit, white-tailed deer,
common pig, bobcat, sheep, goat, house cat, dog, muskrat, raccoon, fox
squirrel (gray squirrel), opossum, weasel, mink, mountain lion, and
black bear.
Animal
Tracks
Animal Tracks at KOP
Beartracker's Animal
Tracks Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, Insects, and Humans.
It also includes photos and information.
eNature.com Click on WildlifeGuides and then Mammal Tracks.
Grand Canyon: Tracking
the Inhabitants Squirrel, rabbit, porcupine, mule deer, skunk,
racoon, coyote/fox, lynx, and homo sapiens.
Oregon Trail
Teacher's Guide: Common Animal Tracks
Plants & Animals
to Look For
Tracking
and Stalking North American Wildlife Lots!
Tracking
Animals in Melrose Move the cursor over the tracks to reveal the
animal. Also go to Pocket
Guide to Massachusetts Animal Tracks for the one page guide.
Tracking the
Inhabitants
Wildlife
Tracks: Pronghorn
Animal Tracks Printables
Danielle's
Place Eduction Crafts Animal Tracks Match Up Color Sheet, Animal
Tracks Plaster Casts
Hibernating
Animals
Hibernation
Talk about hibernation. (You can choose different seasons to talk about
when different animals- winter, anytime.) Go on a Animal Hunt.
Choose an animal and make animal prints (go to Animal
Tracking) on paper. At the
end, have a picture or coloring page at the end of the
trail. Have the children color coloring page of that animal. See
Animal Tracking for some tracks. Here are some animals that
hibernate during the winter and other times of the year: Bears,
gopher(ground squirrel), badger, chipmunk, butterflies and moths, gila
monster, hedgehog, hamster, jerboa, ladybug, raccoon, rodents,
squirrel, skunk, slow worm, wasp, some bats, frogs, snakes, turtles,
salamanders, some fish, woodchucks (groundhogs), jumping mice, and
other animals hibernate in the winter.
Talk about "walking hibernation". Find more information at: The Bear
Facts -
Polar Bear
Hibernation. (This includes: polar bears, brown, and black bears.)
Animals
in Winter
Animals that Hibernate in the winter
The Grizzly or Brown Bear
Book
Read: The Mitten by
Jan Brett. Talk about which animals hibernate during the winter.
More resources located at: Mitten Theme.
Hibernating Animals
Build a cave out of chairs and blankets. Place a teddy bear (or
any other stuffed animal) into the cave. Have it stay there for a
period of time (for example, a day, a week, Christmas break,
etc.). Have the children play with the bear (or other animal)
after it hibernates.
Hibernating
Animal Printouts @ Enchanted Learning
Winter Animals Online
Story (and Printable Story)
Hedgehog
The Happy Hedgehog Band by Martin Waddel
(Hear it read online at Goodnight Stories.)
Hedgehog
Puppet @ activityvillage
Jan Brett's
Hedgehog Coloring Costumes
Mitten
Theme: The Mitten Story Bag There are different resources about
hedgehogs.
Diurnal animals are active
during the day.
Games
Animal, Animal, Who Are You? (for younger children)
The children sit in a circle. One child sits or stands in the
center and acts out the movements or makes the sound of an
animal. The other children raise their hands to guess what
animal the child is imitating. The child who guesses
correctly then acts out another animal. You may want to
have the child in the center whisper the name of the animal to
you before acting it out. Then you can be sure the child
has the animal clearly in mind, and you can help the child is necessary.
Animal
Concentration Cards @ Bry-Back Manor
Songs
Over in
the
Meadow
Animal Rhymes
@KIDIddles
KIDiddles.com -
Animal Songs
KidzSing Garden of Songs
Preschooleducation.com
Click on Music & Songs then Animals | Birds,
Dinosaurs, Farm Animals, House Pets, Penguins, Sea Animals, Winter
Animals, and Zoo
My Pages
My Lesson
Ideas: Music From Saint-Saens & Moussorgsky - Animals
Children's Book
List
ABC
Theme
Biology Links
Children
Songs & Other Music Links
Bible Theme
FHE: AnimalsIncluding
printables. One can be used for a concentration game.
Lesson Plan
Index
Mitten Theme
(Links to make a mitten and place different animals inside of it.)
Information and Photos
(Some pictures to color.)
African
Wildlife Information about lots of different animals and see
animal photos
Amazing Animals @ Yak's Corner
Information about different animals
Animals from A to Z @ Borrico.com
Connect the dots, information, coloring pages, links, games, Sound
Island, and Sound Farm
Backyard Nature
"Lower Animals" (no backbones): Mollusks, Segmented Worms,
Arthropods, Insects
"Higher Animals" (with backbones): Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds,
Mammals, and other resources
Desert Animals &
Wildlife Index: Information and Photos @ DesertUSA
eNature.com
There
are large pictures of amphibians, birds, butterflies, fishes, insects,
mammals, reptiles, seashells, seashore creatures, spiders, trees, &
wildflowers. At this site teachers can create a classroom
species, there are ecards, newsletters and more for free membership.
Gateway
to
online Natural History Notebooks by the Canadian Museum of Nature
Information and pictures to color
GeoZoo
Internet
Familia: Animales Information about animals
in the air, water, earth, the dinosaurs, dogs, and zoos all in Spanish
Krafts' Creatures: Creature
World Information and pictures about different animals around the
world
Missouri
Department of Conservation Nature Page
National
Geographic: Animals and Kids Including
sounds, information, etc.
NetVet
Veterinary Resources: Animals Links
New Mexico's
Week for the Animals Teacher can use
the resources provided by this site to start a Humane Education program
for their students or school. (Viewer Link)
Wildlife
Fact Files @ Goodnight Stories Mammals, birds, fish, and
insects (Including photos.)
Miscelleneous Links
Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures.com
SeaWorld/Busch
Gardens Animal Information Database: Educational Resources and More
The
Exploratorium
Smithsonian Natural
History
Themes and Activities
ChildFun
Animal
Themes
K-3 Themes at
EnchantedLearning.com These themes have links to simple crafts,
nursery rhymes, coloring book printouts, information, and/or quizzes
based on the topic.
KidZone - National
Wildlife
Federation All Ages.
Magazines include: Wild Animal Babies,
Backyard Buddies, and Ranger Rick Goes Wild.
Coloring Pages, Activities, Fun & Games,
Recipes, Science, Nature, etc. (depending on the age group)
Older Children Themes / Units
Rainbow
Horizons Publishing - Free Teaching Unit!
This pdf has worksheets, facts, etc. (Grades 4-8)
Crafts
About.com:
Animal & Creatures Crafts Make your own reptiles, cats, dogs,
rabbits, fish, and much more
DLTK'S
Animal Crafts for Kids I go to the site a lot. It
is for ages 2 through over age 4.
Puppets
Animal
Finger Puppets from Library.lds.org
Desert Animal Coloring Pages
Sonoran
Desert Kids - Pages to print & Color Aplomado Falcon; Bald
Eagle; Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl; Chiricahua Leopard frog; Desert
Pupfish; Gila Chub; Gila Topminnow; Huachuca Water Umbel; Jaguar;
Jaguarundi; Kearney's Blue Star; Lesser Long Nosed
Bat; Masked Bobwhite; Mexican Gray Wolf;
Mexican Spotted Owl; Mountain Plover; Ocelot; Sonoran Pronghorn;
Southwestern Willow Flycatcher; Sonoyta Mud Turtle
Coloring Pages
Alphabet
Links Animal coloring pages with the letter on them
About.com:
Animal Coloring Pages
Alphabet
Soup: Coloring Corner Cats, Birds, Dogs, Frogs, Rabbits, Elephant,
Squirrel, and Turtle
Animals Coloring Pages @
coloring.ws Some realistic and others are cartoons
Animal
Fun Coloring Pages by Michael Gray There are over 90 coloring pages
drawn my an 11 year old boy
Animals
Number Challege Board (1-10)
Arthur's
B&W Clip Art Coloring pages
Color
Texas Animals
Coloring
Pages These include: beaver, parrot, raccoon, giraffe, bat,
butterfly, clown dog, fish undersea, eagle, frog, peacock, camel, horse
rearing, doggy takes a bath, fish & cat, squirrel, wild tiger,
hummingbird, bird and birdhouse, and feeding horses
Colouring Book
- Activities @ Pitura Kids Wild Animals, Pet Animals
Connected Kids -
Coloring Book
DLTK's
Animal Alphabet Coloring Pages
Go to EnchantedLearning.com for the hard find the letters of the
alphabet
EnchantedLearning.com:
Alphabet pages Most of these printouts have animals on them
Enchantedlearning.com:
Animal Printouts with body parts & facts If you can't find an
animal on my page or want an animal that most people have never heard
of, go to this link.
First-Schools
Coloring Pages - Animals LOTS!
Florida
Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commision Animated Animals Coloring Book
(A-Z) Alligator, bat, copperhead (snake), deer, eagle, frog,
grasshopper, heron, ichneumon wasp, jay, kingfisher (bird),
ladybug, manatee, nuthatch (bird), owl, panther, queen
angelfish, water rat, tree snail, Florida box turtle, underwing (moth),
pileated woodpecker, yellowthroat (bird), and zebra swallowtail
(butterfly)
Florida
Scrub Coloring Book, Archbold Biological Station
Free Coloring Pages:
Animals LOTS!
Hawaiian
Endangered Animals - Coloring Book
Indian River Lagoon
Coloring Book - The Aquatic Preserves Are Exceptional
Download pdf files. I haven't gone through everything so there
might be some listed that should be on another page.
Anhingas, Anoles, Blue Crabs, Bobcats, Cabbage Palms, Cormorants,
Daisies, Dolphins, Egrets, EndangeredSpecies, Fiddler Crabs, Flounders,
Grebes, Gulls, Hermit Crabs, Herons, Ibis, Irish Pompanos, Jack
Crevalles, Jellyfish,
Killdeer, Killifish, Least Sandpipers, Loggerheads, Mangroves,
Marshgrass,
Needlefish, Nigh Herons, Ospreys, Otters, Pelicans, Puffers, Quahog
Clams, Queen Conchs, Raccoons, Roseate Spoonbills, Seahorses, Snook,
Terraphins, Turtlegrass, Underwater Areas, Urchins, Vectores, Vultures,
Waterstriders, Whelks, Xerophytes, Extinct, Yellowtail Snappers, Yellow
Rat Snakes, Zooplankton, Zebra Butterflies
International
Wolf Center Critters of the North Woods Coloring Book Black Bear,
Beaver, Dragonflies, White Tailed Deer, Loons, Wolf, Moose, Spring
Peeper (frog), Red Squirrel, Lynx, Snowshoe Hare, and Tiger Swallowtail
Butterflies
Ivy's Coloring Pages
Dinosaurs, lion, elephant & baby elephant, bird, bull, fish, pig,
snake, and a bear with flowers
Kendra's
Coloring Book: Online or Offline
Kid Explorers
Cow, Honeybear, Hummingbird, Lion & Lamb, Panda, Parrot, Penguin,
and Swan
KidsRCrafty.com:
Coloring Pages LOTS!
Kid's
Corner @ USGS Biological Resources Discipline Links to Animals and Birds
National
Geographic Coloring Book: Animals, Pictures, Links Lots of animals!
Preschoolcoloringbook.com
Alligator, Bear, Camel, Chicken, Dalmatian, Dog In Box, Dog Wash, Dog
Party, Donkey, Elephant, Giraffe, Guinea Pig, Hippo, Hippo Mask, Horse,
Kangaroo, Lion, Monkey, Moose, Otter, Panda, Pig, Polar Bear,
Porcupine, Prairie Dog, Raccoon, Rhinoceros, Rhinoceros, Rhinoceros Dot
to Dot, Snake, Squirrel, Whale, Wolf, and Zebra
Preschool
Coloring Pages @ Everything Preschool
Sunshine:
Picture and Questions about animals
thekidzpage.com
Creatures Colouring Pages Including funny creatures
US EPA - Endangered Species
Picture Book
Miscellaneous
Activity Pages
(including
coloring
pages)
A
Breastfeeding Activity Package for Grades K-12
There are other worksheets for older children about
breastfeeding and more located at this link.
1A-
Animal Shadows Match the shadows: elephant, mouse, rabbit,
skunk, and camel.
2A
-
Animal Babies Circle the animal to the right that could be
that animal's baby: horse, cow, and duck.
3C
- How
Many Babies(Count
the number of babies each animal has and write it in the blanks for
these:
pig, duck, ladybug, and monkey.)
American
Veterinary Medical Association - Kids' Korner Activities that include puppets, coloring pages, games,
masks, and more.
Animalink.com:
Fun Stuff
- Puzzles, Games, Quizzes About Animals
Billy Bear and
Clarence's Animal Scoop Information, games, printouts (including
stickers), flashcards, deck of cards, postcards, lesson plan, and zoo
links.
Bry-Back
Activity Pages LOTS!
American
Veterinary Medical Association - Kids' Korner Activities that include puppets, coloring pages, games,
masks, and more.
Ettamogah
Wildlife Sanctuary On the Activities for
Kids Page, there are coloring pages of different Australian animals,
songs, word searches, dot to dot pictures, poems, and more.
FONZ Fun These are
things
they have there: North American Animals Cross-Word puzzle and trivia,
Build a Seal, Build a Sea Lion, Build a Beaver Pond, Cheetah Puzzle,
NZP's Orang Utan Language Game, and Seed Matching Challenge.
Fur and Alligator Advisory
Council - Education
"Teachers, check out our education and biology pages, geared towards
helping you meet your requirements with science benchmarks. We have
lots of activities, lesson plans, and worksheets designed around state
and national benchmarks. The biology pages give information on general
biology, diet and habitat of Louisiana's furbearing animals. Our
educational materials can be downloaded in html, pdf (for Adobe Acrobat
Reader), or Microsoft Word format. ..."
LHS:
A-Z
Index Information about
different
animals, activities, and more
PBS.org: Zooboomafoo:
Family Fun and Activity Sheets
Scissor
Skills
theKidzpage.com:
Jungle Puzzle Page
Waterford Press:
Games and Activities (lots)
Wild
Animal Crossword from Library.lds.org
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