4th grade
Uninvited Neighbors
Activities:
- Decide how to react to different animals: watch, keep your distance, or call an adult
- Identify common urban wildlife by sight and sound
- Listen to animal sounds and choose the “uninvited guest” that made them
- Explore animals that may live near houses, yards, gardens, trash cans, bird feeders, and indoor corners
- Drag indoor “guests” to the places they might like, such as plants, damp spaces, food, fabric, or pets
- Practice safe observation with a real-life photo hunt
The Life of a Frog
Activities:
Activities:
- Studying the characteristics of amphibians and identifying the features that make them amphibians.
- Learning about the life of a frog - whether it is active at night or during the day, what it does in winter, what it can eat, and what can eat it.
- Mimicry and warning coloration of frogs: finding well-hidden frogs and learning about frogs we need to hide from.
- Game "Who is the odd one out": sorting vertebrates into amphibians and all others.
- Assembling a diagram of the "life cycle of frogs."