God's Beautiful Creatures Homeschool Science

Welcome to Our God’s Beautiful Creatures Homeschool Science Course

Do you have a young student who can’t get enough of animals? With this God’s Beautiful Creatures course, students in kindergarten through second grade discover over a hundred animals including red deer, night crawler earthworm, European rabbit, mandarin duck, dromedary camel, golden pheasant, arctic tern, and much more! These homeschool science lessons can help pre-readers and starting readers get into the habit of having fun with books and learning from them, too.

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God’s Beautiful Creatures

Length: 10 units
Content type: Text based
Grades: K–2

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Getting Started with Our God’s Beautiful Creatures Homeschool Science Course

Introduce young homeschool learners to 120 of God’s most beautiful and amazing creatures! This God’s Beautiful Creatures homeschool science course is a collection of the Hello, Beautiful! eBooks. Each book pairs beautiful colorful photographs with simple text that teaches about each animal. A photo index at the back of each book includes information about where the animal lives, what it eats, etc. Additional enrichment activities and links to maps of the countries where the animal lives are also provided.

Overview

  • 10 units
  • Includes links to World Book Online eBook resources and a selection of enrichment activities
  • Grades: K–2

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com; journal for notetaking and research

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan and lessons file. Start with the Day 1 reading assignment. Follow the instructions each day on the lesson plan and check them off when completed.

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More About Our God’s Beautiful Creatures Homeschool Science Course

Each book in this God’s Beautiful Creatures homeschool science course uses large, colorful photographs and a few words to describe the world to young children who are not yet reading on their own or are beginning to learn to read. For the benefit of both adults and children, a picture key is included in the back of each volume that describes each photograph and specific type of animal in more detail.

This homeschool science course can help pre-readers and starting readers get into the habit of having fun with books and learning from them, too. With pre-readers, a fluent reader (parent, older sibling, etc.) can point to the words on each page while speaking them aloud to help the listening child. The older reader may also pause at words the younger reader knows and encourage the younger reader to read or sound out each word.

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Course Outline for Our God’s Beautiful Creatures Homeschool Science Course

Ten God’s Beautiful Creatures homeschool science course units use World Book Online eBook resources and a variety of enrichment activities to teach young learners about 120 of God’s most beautiful and amazing creatures.

Week 1: Backyard Animals

  • Butterfly – silver-washed fritillary butterfly
  • Deer – red deer
  • Dragonfly – green darner dragonfly
  • Earthworm – night crawler earthworm
  • Frog – American bullfrog
  • Gecko – western banded gecko
  • Owl – barn owl
  • Pigeon – rock pigeon
  • Possum – brush-tailed possum
  • Rabbit – European rabbit
  • Skunk – striped skunk
  • Squirrel – eastern gray squirrel

Week 2: Colorful Animals

  • Chameleon – panther chameleon
  • Duck – mandarin duck
  • Fish – longnose hawkfish
  • Frog – blue poison dart frog
  • Lizard – eastern collared lizard
  • Monkey – mandrill
  • Moth – elephant hawk moth
  • Octopus – blue-ringed octopus
  • Parrot – scarlet macaw
  • Snake – rainbow boa
  • Spider – peacock spider
  • Wasp – cuckoo wasp

Week 3: Desert Animals

  • Camel – dromedary
  • Coyote
  • Gerbil – Mongolian gerbil
  • Hare – jack rabbit
  • Hyena – striped hyena
  • Lizard – Gila monster
  • Owl – burrowing owl
  • Rattlesnake – diamondback rattlesnake
  • Scorpion – stripe-tailed scorpion
  • Tarantula – Arizona blond tarantula
  • Vulture – griffon vulture
  • Wren – cactus wren

Week 4: Farm Animals

  • Chicken – barred Plymouth Rock hen
  • Cow – Holstein cow
  • Duck – Muscovy duck
  • Goat – Alpine goat
  • Goose – Embden goose
  • Hog – Berkshire hog
  • Horse – Percheron horse
  • Llama – woolly llama
  • Rabbit – New Zealand rabbit
  • Rooster – brown leghorn rooster
  • Sheep – Corriedale sheep
  • Turkey – bronze turkey

Week 5: Feathered Animals

  • Bluebird – eastern bluebird
  • Cockatoo – sulfur-crested cockatoo
  • Emu
  • Flamingo – greater flamingo
  • Heron – great blue heron
  • Honeyeater – blue-faced honeyeater
  • Osprey
  • Penguin – emperor penguin
  • Pheasant – golden pheasant
  • Takahē
  • Tern – Arctic tern
  • Woodpecker – pileated woodpecker

Week 6: Furry Animals

  • Bear – brown bear
  • Chinchilla – long-tailed chinchilla
  • Dog – puli
  • Fox – Arctic fox
  • Kangaroo – red kangaroo
  • Lemur – ring-tailed lemur
  • Lion – African lion
  • Mouse – house mouse
  • Musk ox
  • Otter – sea otter
  • Panda – giant panda
  • Sloth – three-toed sloth

Week 7: Pet Animals

  • Canary
  • Cat – American shorthair cat
  • Dog – Australian terrier
  • Goldfish
  • Guinea pig – American guinea pig
  • Hamster – golden hamster
  • Hedgehog – four-toed hedgehog
  • Horse – Tennessee walking horse
  • Lizard – blue-tongued skink
  • Rabbit – Standard Rex rabbit
  • Snake – corn snake
  • Tarantula – Mexican redknee tarantula

Week 8: Six-Legged Animals

  • Ant – red harvester ant
  • Bee – honey bee
  • Beetle – giant stag beetle
  • Butterfly – American lady butterfly
  • Caddisfly
  • Cicada – periodical cicada
  • Firefly – big dipper firefly
  • Grasshopper – lubber grasshopper
  • Hornet – European hornet
  • Ladybug
  • Mantis – orchid mantis
  • Moth – emperor moth

Week 9: Water Animals

  • Bird – Wilson’s storm-petrel
  • Cod – potato cod
  • Dolphin – bottlenose dolphin
  • Lobster – American lobster
  • Octopus – North Pacific giant octopus
  • Penguin – Adélie penguin
  • Sea anemone
  • Sea turtle – leatherback sea turtle
  • Shark – great white shark
  • Stingray
  • Trout – brown trout
  • Whale – Bryde’s whale

Week 10: Zoo Animals

  • Beetle – green metallic scarab
  • Bird – kookaburra
  • Chimpanzee
  • Elephant – African elephant
  • Fox – fennec
  • Giraffe
  • Koala
  • Orangutan – Sumatran orangutan
  • Polar bear
  • Rhinoceros – white rhinoceros
  • Snake – Burmese python
  • Tiger – Siberian tiger

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Quick Start

1.  Bookmark the course for easy access during instruction.

2. Click “View Lesson Plan” and organize as desired (on computer desktop or in a printed format). 

3.  Gather necessary resources as listed in the lesson plan.

4.  Click “Go to Class Lessons” and get started.

5.  Enjoy the course!

6.  Utilize Applecore or your own record keeping system throughout the course.

7.  Print a certificate of completion.

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