Animals Unit

Outcomes:
Learn what an animal is
Learn something about how animals are related to each other
Gain a sense of the variety of animals that have existed and continue to exist
Learn something about drivers of evolution (adaptation, environment, catastrophic change, etc)

Deliverables:
Animal Kingdom Tree
Animal Kingdom Notebook

Materials and Supplies:
Colored Pencils
3-hole punched paper
1/2 inch 3-ring notebook
Animals Pictures (every effort has been made to preserve copyright)
Butcher Paper
Markers
(White-Out)
Library Card

Textbooks:
The Variety of Life by Colin Tudge (main teacher reference text)
Encyclopedia of Animals by Karen McGhee and George McKay (National Geographic) (main child reference text)