July 3 - A-Z Quest of the 7 Continents Set

How well do you know the world's continents?

Here are our always well received A-Z Quest game sheets to help learners of all ages learn more about the 7 continents of the world.  This set includes one A-Z Quest game sheet for each continent and is part of our My Continental Adventure resources.  Simply find things (people, places, events, attractions, countries, foods, etc.) that fit with each continent.  List one thing for each letter in acronymic style play.  This activity can be played as a game or simply as a worksheet to complete.  We prefer to use it as a game.
 

You will notice that answers are not provided for most A-Z Quest sheets.  We do not provide the answers as many times there can be more than one answer and we don't want to limit players or stifle their creativity.  This also allows for open minded thinking and good research opportunities.  Learners can play alone or in teams and keep track of who gets the most letters or play for points using the point gauge.

 

Words Beginning With the Letters/Points

 

AEIOUW 1

 

DHLNRST 2

 

CFGMPVJK 3

 

QXYZ 4

 

Total score for a fully completed A-Z Quest is 60pts.*

 

 

*Note: You may decide that extra points can be given for more than one answer in a letter. Establish rules at the beginning of each quest and feel free to make changes subsequent quests as research skills improve.

 

You may be asking yourself how effective and useful can this activity really be?  Well, try it yourself to see..lol.  It's not as easy as it looks.  This has proven to be a fun way to cultivate research skills among our children. This activity builds skills such as:

• Choosing appropriate research resources
• Performing Internet searches
• Reading for content or skimming for details
• Using public library resources independently
• Using an encyclopedia offline or online

 You'll be surprised at what this activity can do for your learners.

 

 
Click Here to download the A-Z of the 7 Continents Worksheet set.


Blessings,

That Resource Team

June 27 - F3 Pieces for Australia, Africa, and Antarctica added.

F3 pieces to complete your continent set.

Today we offer the final three continents - Australia, Antarctica, and Africa in our F3 List It!! set.

As a reminder, these pieces should reflect many different aspects of the continent.  Try not to focus too much on any particular area or country. 

For a shortened and easier experience for younger children, you may want to just read a book highlighting the continent or country from the continent and have the learner copy in words they learned from one or a few of the books.  Examples of books could include:

M is for Maple, A Canadian Alphabet by Mike Ulmer and Illustrated by Melanie Rose
Pierre Bear by Patricia Scarry
Wee Gillis by Munro Leaf
Down, Down the Mountain by Ellis Credle
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
The Babar Series by Jean de Debrunhoff

For continents such as Antarctica that do not have a real population you may want to write down articles that you may pack if you were going to be a scientist visiting for 6 months at a time.  Remember that just because we have provided 8 lines, doesn't mean that they all have to be used.

Hope this gives you some addition ideas.
Click Here to download the List It!! F3 set for Australia.
Click Here to download the List It!! F3 set for Antarctica.
Click Here to download the List It!! F3 set for Africa.

Blessings,

That Resource Team

June 26 - List It!! F3 Pieces for South America, Europe, and Asia

More F3 Flip Flop Flap Pieces for Continental Studies.

Here are 3 more continents to add to your collection of F3 pieces for My Continental Adventure.  These are really working so well for us in our little homeschool.  We hope to have the rest of the continents done by tomorrow for you.

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Click Here to download the List It!! F3 set for South America.
Click Here to download the List It!! F3 set for Europe.
Click Here to download the List It!! F3 set for Asia.


Blessings,

That Resource Team

June 25 - List It F3 Pieces for North America Continent Study

New List It!! F3 pieces focus on the continent of North America

This year we are embarking on continental study...again.  Everything in cycles, eh?  My Continental Adventure, as we call in our little homeschool, is a lot of fun.  We designed it a few years ago complete with a multi page passport, stickers, websites, recipes, map work and saint study.  Since it has been a few years since we used it, we have been recently updating it to meet the needs of littlest learner.  Since all the kids are going to participate in this study, we had to make a few resources that suited new or reluctant writers.  These F3 (Flip, Flop and Fold) pieces are the answer.

Each piece focuses on a particular aspect of the continent including the following:  features, foods, mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, clothing, sights, saints, and countries.  The front flip piece has an actual map graphic of the continent and the inside contains spaces for 8 items to be listed.  Line spacing is inviting for new writers as well as perfect for those learning cursive. 

Simply cut out the pieces on the lines.  There are 2 pieces per page.  Fold each piece twice on the vertical lines.

Glue the wrong sides of the front flip piece to the middle section.

Have learner fill in and then glue into an on-going project, notebook, file folder, or whatever you desire.

**If you know someone who is or will be studying the continents soon, these sets may be just what they are looking for.  We will be sharing and adding our My Continental Adventure resources to our resource collection as we go through the studies in our little homeschool.  We look forward to lots of fun and adventure.

We will feature List It!! sets for more continents over the weekend!! :)


Click Here to download the List It!! F3 set for North America.

Blessings,

That Resource Team

June 14 - Let's Learn About Animals Part III

More Simple Animal Learning Cards

We offer sets 5 and 6 of our Simple Animal Learning Cards today.  We will be making more in the future but we thought that these would give us all a good start.  We also thought that we would share with you some ideas on how you could use these resources in your family:

• Use these cards as an addition to an animal unit study.
• Use these cards as an addition to science unit study .
• Fill out a card when a picture book or novel you are reading mentions the animal as a character in it such as in Thornton Burgess stories, Beatrix Potter Stories, Parables From Nature by Mrs. Gatty, Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, works by by Lewis Carroll and so one.  We intend to create lots more cards so that children can begin a good collection of these cards.
• Take these sheets with you on your next nature walk, field trip to the nature sanctuary, or zoo trip.  Fill them out on the spot and then bring them home to cut apart and finish off.
• Fill these out as the animals are mentioned in video series like Planet Earth, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, Jeff Corbin, The Magic School Bus and more.
• Use selected animals in your world Geography studies.  We have tried to include all of the continents.
• Use completed cards for sick day learning review - once laminated they can stay germ free.  You can even wipe them down or even apply antibacterial wash to them.
• Play trivia quest with them.  Over a bowl of popcorn or trail mix, we play a review trivia style game.  Assign players to numbers on a die.  Player roles die and asks whoever assigned to the displayed number a question about something on a Learning Card.  We decide before we start who will choose the categories.  So much fun.  This is good for in front of the fireplace winter play or outside in the yard under a shady tree summer play.

These are just a few ideas to get you started.  I'm sure there will be others you will find.  Feel free to share some of your own uses in the comment section as I will try to keep a running list and eventually post it on the Learning Cards web page.

Today's resource sets include the following animals:

Set 5 - Hummingbird, Snowy Owl, Dragonfly, Ladybug, Yellow Jacket, Honey Bee, Fly, Green Hornet, Gila Monster, Roman Snail

Set 6 - Polar Bear, Pacific Walrus, Wasp, Gypsy Moth Caterpillar, Octopus, Caribbean Reef Squid, Desert Tarantula, Black Widow Spider, Rabbit, Bottlenose Dolphin

Click Here to download Simple Animal Learning Cards set 5
Click Here to download Simple Animal Learning Cards set 6

Visit us tomorrow to collect some of the Classification Animal Learning Card sets.

Blessings,

That Resource Team

June 13 - Let's Learn About Animals Part II

More Simple Animal Learning Cards for Young Learners

Here are the next two sets of simple, circle the answer style, Animal Learning Cards.  Each set contains ten animals to learn about.

Simply print out, cut apart, fill-in, and then fold and glue.  You could also laminate them for stability and longevity.  These cards are great for trivia usage.  In tomorrow's post, I will give you some ideas on how we use these cards in our own little homeschool.

Today's resource sets include the following animals:


Set 3 - Cheetah, Impala, Giant Panda, Bactrian Camels, Banteng, Komodo Dragon, Peacock, Bengal Tiger, Brown Long-eared Bat, Pig-Tailed Macaque

Set 4 - Leopard Tortoise, Read Eared Slider, Short Horned Lizard, Red Legged Frog, Copperhead Snake, Rattle Snake, Canadian Goose, Mallard Duck, Canary Lizard, Coral Snake


Click Here to download Simple Animal Learning Cards set 3
Click Here to download Simple Animal Learning Cards set 4

Enjoy!

Blessings,

That Resource Team

June 12 - Let's Learn About Animals Part I.

Use our simple style science Learning Cards to help children learn about animals from all over the world. 

We are beginning to study animals in science as well as in our world geography studies.  We created these sets of Learning Cards to help children study animals and geography at the same time.  Each card asks the learner to simply circle the proper information.  This is great for younger learners who are just starting to learn research skills while still presenting and encouraging proper vocabulary use of such terms as: class, carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, vertebrate, and invertebrate.

 

We created these resources so that even little learners can find and note information without being overwhelmed by having to write everything out.  By circling the info the find, they can still feel a sense of accomplishment and more easily participate in multi-aged learning in science.  Not to mention that this also helps in the geography area as well.  As many animals are found on more than one continent, the opportunity to circle all that apply presents itself.  This encourages higher order thinking as well. 

We have tried to list animals from various continents spanning all of the classes.  We used real photographs of animals in their habitats (wherever possible) to help really give children a good idea of what the animal looks like if they saw it for themselves.  All of our images have come from the public domain, so that has been our only limitation.

Today's resource sets include the following animals:

Set 1 - Lemur, Koala Bear, Armadillo, Coatimundi, Manatee, Badger, Gray Wolf, Bearded Seal, Wolf Brown Bear

Set 2 - Moose, Coyote, American Bison, Marmot, Ground Squirrel, Raccoon, African Elephant, Lion, Masai Giraffe, East African Hippo

We will try and present the sets over the next few days. If you know of anyone doing a continent study or animal study now or this coming academic year, why not tell them to come and visit too.

Plus - We will soon be posting a go-along Classification Animal Learning Cards for older learners to learn about animals, develop their Latin skills, and practice classifying God's wondrous creatures.


Click Here to download Simple Animal Learning Cards set 1
Click Here to download Simple Animal Learning Cards set 2

We hope you find these useful and fun!! :)

Blessings,

That Resource Team