Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. Activities in this book, developed for Pre-K to grade 1 students, integrate literature, science, and writing with mathematics, and are intended to develop such skills as observation, comparison, communication, data organization, sorting, classifying, graphing, and logical thinking. In this guide students explore many different aspects of eggs, including eggs as the beginning of life for many animals. In a sample activity, Eggs on Land, Eggs in Water, students observe a live box turtle and learn about turtle eggs and babies through a story of a mother turtle acted out by the teacher with models.
Students then observe fish and the teacher acts out a baby fish drama.
Students play with plastic eggs in sand and in water as they recreate their own dramas based on the lessons. Finally, students use clay to make eggs, nests, and animals. A background section provides information about eggs of many species and an essay on the significance and use of eggs in various cultures. Suggestions for extending the activities and modifying them for different age levels are included. Also provided are source lists for suggested materials, bibliographic information for suggested books, and blackline masters.