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Simple Studies: Desert Creatures

With Simple Studies: Desert Creatures, students cover narration, desert ecology, zoology, mammalogy, biology, ornithology, nature study, literature, copywork, poetry, anatomy, humanities, art history, abstract art, US geography and more all while you simply read aloud.

Each lesson offers a one-chapter reading, a prompt for narration, picture book recommendations and desert coloring pages (included) for each young student.

Older students use visual aids such as the real-life images (included) and/or field guides or visual reference books for their nature journal entries. Optional video links, species photo and research links, discussion questions, and dictation exercises are included with each lesson.

Included in this study:

– 13 Simple Lessons that correspond with each chapter

– 23 Hand-drawn Coloring Pages for younger students to use while you read aloud

– Picture Booklists for each lesson

– Chapter Review and Narration prompts

– Field Guide Recommendations, guidance and prompts for older students

– Specific visual aid and video links with each lesson

– Dictation Exercises (all lessons)

– Animal Species Pictures for nature drawing

– Georgia O’Keeffe Artist Study + Abstract Acrylic Painting Guide (Optional Final Project)

– Copywork Pages (included with each real-life image)

– Snake and Spider Anatomy Drills, Poetry

– Review Questions

Instructors will need one additional item on hand to complete the lessons: Desert Neighbors by Edith M. Patch and Carroll Lane Fenton, written in 1937.

“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