Expedition Earth: Discovering God’s Animals is a FREE animal unit study that is designed to go with my Expedition Earth: A Journey Through God’s World geography curriculum.
What’s included in the Expedition Earth: Discovering God’s Animals
Each country contains a waterfall style mini-book with 6 animals from that country. The flip book has a fun facts sentence for your student to either trace or write depending on skill level. I plan on using this with my preschooler, first grader and 2nd grader as a group (I doubt my pre-k will be doing the writing, but she can cut out the pages and assemble for her animal book, I’ll leave it up to her).
The animal study also comes with animal classification cards for an animal discovery wall along with animal cards for each country so you can classify the animals as you are learning about them. I just made a simple bulletin board for our room so we have somewhere fun to display all of our animals as we learn them.
(I recommend writing the country names on the backs of the animal cards before they get all mixed up on your wall.)
Here’s a sample of the classification cards and Animals of Brazil cards:
Click to download Expedition Earth: Discovering God’s Animals
NOTE: For the older kids I made a version with blank lines to write in their own facts, its a great research project!
Click here to download the Blank Lines version of Discovering God’s Animals
Note: This is intended to be a supplement to the Expedition Earth curriculum but it can also be used as an independent animal unit study.
If you missed it, click here to see the Expedition Earth: A Journey Through God’s World Curriculum!
Hope you enjoy learning all about God’s Animals!
Hello Erica,This looked like something interesting to add to our Geography studies, but when I downloaded it, I only got a sample of the Geography curriculum. There was nothing about animals on it. Did I misunderstand or did I download the wrong thing? Thanks for all the great ideas!
You should have received the animals study, here is the direct link: http://shared.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/geography/ExpeditionEarthAnimals.pdf
I can’t seem to get Expedition Earth – Discovering God’s Animals to download…..none of your links are bringing anything up. It’s looks really exciting. Hoping you can help. Thanks!
Hi Terri,
I apologize, some browsers won’t open it because it’s so large. If you try to RIGHT click on the download link then select “SAVE LINK AS” you should be directed to save it to your hard drive, then it will download.
Let me know if that doesn’t work and I’ll try to send it via You Send It!
To say that I am impressed by your "Expedition Earth" series is a huge understatement! You never cease to amaze me! I, too, tried to download the "Discovering God's Animals" and got the download of the Geography sample.Last, my girls are pre-k and K for this fall…would you suggest using the Geography curriculum this year or waiting for next year? Either way…I'm definitely buying it!
Thanks,looks good! BTW, I didn't know if since you have an account, which I assume is ad free, if you realized how vile the ads are on 4 shared. Some are soft p*rn.
These are awesome! I love them and am totally downloading it all. Soon enough I'll pick up the other one you made, okay more like once I get through the 50 states.
This download looks great! (as does the geography one).As I was looking through the animals, I noticed the Pangolin. We saw one with our very own eyes!!! in Uganda on our hike through Mibira Forest outside of Jinja.I wish I had had a camera with a telephoto lens; my point and shoot got him looking very much like a 'living pine cone'! ;o)
Love this and will be printing it this weekend to go with Expedition Earth!
Only see the expedition earth one..not the animal one.
How fun!! Thank you.
Sorry everyone, the link has been fixed!
thanks so much! this is a great geography/science curriculum for pre-k! you solved a lot of my planning issues today. thank you again so much! i thinkj we will be ready for the all-out geography next year so i will be back for sure!
This looks so fun! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 3 post on Aug. 04, 2010. Thanks again.
Thanks, Erica! This time it downloaded perfectly
I love how you organized it by country or area! great idea
What great pictures! My kiddos love animals and there are lots on there that I haven't even heard of
Thank you for sharing this!I just found your blog this week and I am enthralled….you are so BUSY creating wonderful things! What a blessing to the rest of us who are not so craftily-inclined…lol!Again, thank you, my kids (ages 8,6 and 3) are going to have a blast! And so will I! 
Thanks so much for sharing such a wonderful resource for the younger children. It is very appreciated. Can I please point out a spelling error? In Animals of New Zealand you have a "tutara" – they're tu*A*tara
Anonymous: YES, THANK YOU! I just fixed it, so you can re-download, sorry!
Erica,I am having trouble with the free Ex. Animals. It won't open. I just downloaded today. I agree with the other comment as well that 4shared has some pretty nasty ads. I have to leave open another window for the 90 second wait so my kids won't see.
You amaze me! Somehow, I am going to use this. I might be able to tie it into our FIAR studies when we get to them, since we will be making a map of animals around the world ~ thank you!
What a great product for studying the 7 continents!I love the Rainforest Diorama page with pictures! It's so helpful for visual learners like me! I also love that you have a suggested schedule broken down day by day. Very helpful to moms that struggle with organization.
We are LOVING this download.My 8 yr old just spotted on the morocco page that the stripped Hyena is down as a spotted Hyena on the sheet with the 6 photos on.couldn't work out how to email you so popped it on here.
Zelda: Thanks, I fixed it!
Awesome materials! Erica, hope that you will consider linking up this post to the blog hop that Leann is hosting over at Montessori Tidbits. She mentioned your nice dwonloads in one of her recent blog posts and that is how I found out about your great download. Can't wait to do this with my sons. Thanks so much!Have a happy week,Colleen:)
Sunshine Crew: I've tried twice to link up but it's not working for some reason?
Erica. I really love EVERYTHING that you do…you are amazing! But I feel really stupid right now. Can you do me a favor and explain this part to me…"I suggest laminating 2 pages back to back. Cut them apart and you’ll have lamina-tion on the front, but not the back. This will make it easier for the Velcro dots or wall tape to stick to the cards." I am sure it is simple and but I am just not getting it! Thank you!