AFRICA in a Nutshell

I love making materials for our geography lessons!! It gives me the freedom to choose subjects, topics to touch and most of all give me the freedom to put depths into it.  Now my latest creation is Africa! It is loaded with activities for you and your little ones. (Click the image below for the link of the file)

So what’s included in this file?

                                                                                   

 

1. MAPS! The file includes regional map of Africa… and I also included a 3 part card for it.  Mavi loves the 3 part card version. He would always tell me that they are so tricky to match! 

2.  African Ethnic Tribes.  Oh I am so enthralled by these wonderful people! I hope to meet one of them someday.  This activity familiarizes a child of the different ethnic groups in Africa.  Aside from the nomenclature card, I included definition/fact cards for each tribe so we can get to know them, how they are different from the others and they unique practices that they have.

3.  African animals and their skin pattern.  My Mavi loves this so much!  He is amazed by the close-up picture of each animals and their skin coverings!  We love putting them around in the house and see if they achieve a camouflage effect.  Works best if you have animal figures that you can match with it. The kids will surely love it!

4.  African Facts.  These fact cards basically summarizes the important things we needed to know about Africa.  I wrote the facts in a way that Mavi can easily absorb and understand them.  I let him read the definitions.  If you want to learn further, use these cards as your guide in researching more details in the internet.  I am teaching Mavi how to it.  I’m having an AFRICA post soon, so you will have an idea how we put these into action!

 

5. Giraffe and Zebra nomenclature cards.  Working on nomenclature cards has helped Mavi read.  Yes, starting when he was 3 yrs old, we would work on any available and interesting nomenclature cards I could own or interests.  He loves to match pictures and words!  And much more if you are working with animals! 

 

Other AFRICAN-related materials we have can be found here.  So if you are interested, just click the first image in this post or click here to download your copy!

I also made ASIA in a Nutshell last year. Go check it out!

Hope you like this collection! Thank you!

Geological Time Scale with Safari Toobs

Last year,  I was able to have bargain of these Safari Toobs at Amazon.  I've been wanting to get them for the fact that after our geologcial Time activity, Mavi has been so obsessed of doing the timeline representation over and over again.  When they arrived at the mail, Mavi was so excited! He can finally complete his timeline with all these figures!

So what do you exactly need to be able to create a geological time?  Well, in our case we have the following:
Cambrian Toob
Prehistoric Life Toob
Dinosaur Toobs (Carnivorous, Dinos, Feathered and Baby Toobs)

I  made out these paper to servee as our mat, and write the name of the ERA on the side.

Mavi carefully laid out the mat, and little by little placing the figures on each ERA starting from the Paleozoic ERA.

And tada!!! We have a complete Geological Time Scale!

Books tha we read to go along with this activity is our Lava to Life series.  I've talked about it here during our first lesson.  Click on the link below [aff. Link] to see the book details.

PS.  These safari toobs are really really awesome!  Let me show you the cambrian figures which I truly admire because of the details.  This collecor took a photo of each figure and described it.  Mavi and I read it so we know what we're dealing with here.

And here's the prehistoric life.  Mavi described these animals as the great grandparents of rhinos, tigers, giraffes and elephants!

Now I'm not saying that IT IS A MUST to buy.  But, if you are really interested, I suggest that you wait for the SALE season.  I usually have a wishlist and amazon would notify me if any in the list is on sale.