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Simple Studies: Night Creatures
A living science instructor handbook for K-6 students. *This handbook guide is for instructors and/or parents to use with their students. Minimal prep needed.

A simple yet beautiful way to fall in love with nocturnal animals and insects.

With Night Creatures, we cover narration, science, natural history, nocturnal ecology, biology, and art among other areas of schooling. Each of the 15 short lessons offers a reading from Among the Night People by Clara Dillingham Pierson, a prompt for narration and art opportunities along with a list of picture books for younger children and ideas for further study for older students.

*This download INCLUDES coloring pages for each lesson to print for each student.

Lessons take approximately 10-15 minutes.

This study includes:

–15 Simple Lessons that correspond with each chapter

– Hand-drawn animal coloring pages for younger students to use while you read aloud

– Picture Book recommendations for each lesson

– Chapter Review and Narration prompts

– Field Guide Recommendations, guidance and prompts for older students

– Specific Animal visual aid and video links for each lesson

– Handbook of Nature Study page guides

– Review Questions

Instructors will need one additional item on hand to complete the lessons:

1) Among the Night People by Clara Dillingham Pierson (check your local library first! Otherwise, I recommend Amazon or New West Press for a printed version or Yesterday’s Classics for an inexpensive e-book version. You can start listening for free on Librivox.com.

“The question is not, -- how much does the youth know? when he has

finished his education -- but how much does he care? and about how many

orders of things does he care?.. (Charlotte Mason, School Education:

Developing A Curriculum)