Smithie Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 (edited) My ds is obsessed with animals. Obsessed. For his first grade year, I want to spend the whole year studying different animals and filling in a large, impressive, beautiful chart of the Animal Kingdom. So who knows of one? :bigear: Edited October 5, 2009 by Smithie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithie Posted October 5, 2009 Author Share Posted October 5, 2009 bump C'mon, I know I can't be the first one to have a 6 y.o. who loves All Creatures Great And Small... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gratefulmother Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 I am teaching science at a tutorial this year and recently looked for something similar to what you are talking about, but to no avail. The neatest thing I did find was the different types of animals divided into groups arranged in a semicircle. So, imagine a semicircle with the 5 groups of vertebrates on the left and invertebrates on the right in sections shaped like pie pieces. In the center were the names of the groups, then as it got larger the characteristics of the group and finally pictures of animals in that group. It was on scribd.com and looked like it had been copied from a textbook. You might be able to make something on your own that looks like it, or maybe that gives you an idea of something else. I have found the simpler the better, for you and the student! HTH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freerange Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 We were at a science festival last weekend when classification was the topic of one of the lectures. I'm sure I saw something that we could use as a starting point. I'll see what I can find out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annabel Lee Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 I got a very interesting, although slightly above level poster last year from Amazon. It's titled Chief Taxonomic Subdivisions and Organ Systems of the Animal Phyla, it's by McGraw Hill, ISBN # 0-07-291786-5. It is basically a detailed picture outline using bars of square units to represent the relative number of species in ea. group, so you can compare populations by seeing how long the bars are. A pie chart sounds cool, too. I got this poster more for me to use as a teaching guide, so I'd know what I was doing. ;) ETA: this would give you all the info you need for her to create a fill-in chart of your own, if you're up to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nestof3 Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 (edited) We spent a year on invertebrates and one on vertebrates. I never did see a chart like this in my searches. You could create your own using the phyla/class/orders you choose to study. You could print out google images and put them on small poster boards in their phyla. I did have two posters -- one showing vertebrates, one invertebrates for reference. I found this printable file which might be of help. "The Tree of Life Chart." http://www.bigpicturescience.biz/ Edited October 6, 2009 by nestof3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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