Simple Studies: Learning Seashore Animals with Thornton Burgess
Simple Studies: Learning Seashore Animals with Thornton Burgess
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Simple Studies: A Charlotte Mason living science instructor handbook for K-4 students.
What a simple yet beautiful way to get to know Seashore Animals without having to live at the coast.
With Learning Seashore Animals with Thornton Burgess, students cover science, reading, handwriting, spelling, narration, drawing or art among other areas of schooling. Each of the 40 short lessons offers a reading from The Burgess Seashore Book for Children, 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.
What's included:
- 40 Simple Lessons that correspond with each chapter of the Burgess Seashore Book for Children
- 40 Hand-Drawn Coloring Pages corresponding with each Lesson
- Picture Booklist by Lesson/Chapter
- Chapter Review and Narration prompts with each lesson.
- Field Guide Recommendations, guidance and prompts for older students
- Handbook of Nature Study references for lessons where it corresponds with the animal studied.
- Suggested Schedule for the year
- Review Questions
*This handbook guide is for teachers and/or parents to use with their students. Very minimal prep is needed and there are prompts and tips for the instructor for obtaining materials several weeks before they will be needed.
Teachers will need ONE additional item on hand to complete the lessons:
1) The Burgess Seashore Book for Children by Thornton Burgess *link is affiliate
While having a field guide on hand is highly recommended, the additional activities and picture books are listed as optional to complement each lesson.
Enhance your study using these uniquely illustrated 32 Seashore Animals posters, flash cards and 3-part cards.
“We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.”― Charlotte Mason