Creatures of the Night
Flying here and there in the dark, how many of us have ever paid much attention to animals such as bats, owls, moths and fireflies? This unit brings these creatures to life with a unique nighttime nature study opportunity.
Learn the best places to look for flying night creatures and complete notebooking pages to show what you find. Listen for night sounds, learn how to attract these night flyers to your yard, and complete outdoor experiments.
Back inside, take time to learn about night vision, classify nocturnal animals, research night creature migration or create some fun nighttime art. There are plenty of ideas for learning more about each of the night creatures highlighted within the unit, too.
Night owl or not, we think you’ll enjoy this exciting change of pace from daytime nature study!
37 pages, e-book
$8.00
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Links to art, artists, composers, compositions, poetry and literature suggestions:
Artist and Picture Study -
Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
Starry Night Over the Rhone by Vincent Van Gogh
Moonlight Wolf by Frederick Remington
Composer and Music Study – Ludwig van Beethoven
Poetry -
The Bat by Theodore Roethke
Fireflies by Carolyn Hall (This is located on a blog. We do not know what else you might find on this blog, so please be careful as always on unknown sites.)
Recommended Books and Such
Creatures of the Night
These are links to specific titles that we have suggested where we ask you to do your own internet search because of copyright. We’re hoping this will be an acceptable compromise! There are often other books we have suggested to go along with the art, composer or poetry suggestions. They are already included in the “recommended book” section, so we chose not to link them again.
As always, if you come across a great link or additional idea for any of these areas, please let us know and we’ll add it right away!