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What is a Mammal?
SKU
054084
ISBN
9780865058903
Grade 3-6
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Charlotte Mason
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Description
Publisher's Description of What is a Mammal?
What is a Mammal? teaches the basic rules as well as the exceptions that help children understand differences between mammals and other living things. Amazing full-color photographs feature a large variety of mammals including apes, elephants, rodents, and bats and help identify:
- those mammals that lay eggs
- mammals with a pouch
- placental mammals, such as humans
Category Description for Mammals: Lessons from the World of Animals
The Mammals study from Memoria Press is divided into 30 lessons, but covers a variety of mammal topics - What is the Animal Kingdom, What is a Mammal, Monotremes, Marsupials, Insectivores, Chiropterans, Edentates, lagomorphs, Hyraxes and the Aardvark, Rodents, Ungulates, Elephants, Carnivores, Cetaceans, and Primates.
The Teacher Guide and Student Book are designed to accompany World of Animals, What is the Animal Kingdom, and What is a Mammal. In the Student Book, for each lesson, there is a reading assignment then exercises to be completed. Journal pages are found at the back of the student book for additional notes and facts they may have found. There are 2 to 3 pages per lesson. The Teacher Guide includes student pages with the answers filled in, review suggestions at the end of each lesson, quizzes, tests, and answer keys for both. ~ Donna
Details
| Product Format: | Softcover Book |
|---|---|
| Grades: | 3-6 |
| Brand: | Crabtree Publishing Company |
| ISBN: | 9780865058903 |
| Length in Inches: | 10 |
| Width in Inches: | 9.25 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.25 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 0.3 |
| Ages: | 7 - 8 |
| Edition: | Illustrated |
| Pages: | 32 |
| Publication Date: | 1999 |
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Bobbie Kalman books are detailed and crisp and perfect for a third grader bought this to supplement Sassafras Zoology
Using with MP Mammal studies. We are doing this in second grade for we plan on doing accelerated 3rd grade.
So I don't have to keep checking it out from the library!