Discovering Plants and Animals Volume Three: Canada, Latin America & Beyond

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Your elementary and middle school students can have fun learning about some of the many animals and plants that live in Australia & Oceania, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central & South America, Antarctica, and more with Discovering Plants and Animals of the World, Volume Three.

It’s perfect for students in 3th-6th grade, but it can easily be adapted for younger or older students.

Help kids explore some of the many habitats of Canada, Latin America, Australia & Oceania, and more and discover just some of the amazing creatures and colorful plants that live there with this fun unit study.

This can be used alongside Daily Skill Building: World Geography & History and is discounted as an add-on.

This is a digital only resource.


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Discovering Plants and Animals Volume Three: Canada, Latin America & Beyond

Sample Textbook | Sample Student Pages

Learning about Plants and Animals

Animals are incredible creatures to study. They live in virtually every corner of our world, from freezing continents to scorching deserts.

From guacharos and tuataras to hutias to manicous, help your students discover hundreds of animals that live throughout Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, South America, Australia and Oceania, Antarctica, and twenty-three dependencies of the United Kingdom and France around the world.

They can also discover some of the many kinds of plants grown and crops raised in many of these locations.

Discovering Plants and Animals is a self-paced science unit study for grades 3-6, although it’s flexible and can be used for younger or older students. It includes 53 sections or regions so students can focus on just a few countries at a time.

This science unit study was created to accompany Daily Skill Building: World Geography & History and follows along with the lessons in that full-year curriculum.

Study Native Plants

  • Antarctic pearlwort
  • araguaney
  • cajeput tree
  • eucalyptus
  • Gibraltar candytuft
  • greater burnet
  • immortelle
  • kauri
  • latania
  • manchineel
  • mangrove
  • mayflower
  • nipa palm
  • oleander
  • palmetto
  • pink poui
  • poinsettia
  • tagimaucia
  • tamarind
  • wattle

Learn about Habitats

Explore various habitats of Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, South America, Australia and Oceania, Antarctica, and more in Discovering Plants and Animals:

  • Bamboo Forest
  • Chaparral
  • Coral Reef
  • Desert
  • Grassland
  • Steppe
  • Mangrove Swamp
  • Mountains
  • Taiga
  • Temperate Deciduous Forest
  • Temperate Rain Forest
  • Tropical Dry Forest
  • Tropical Rain Forest

Discover Animals of Canada, Latin America, Australia & Oceania, and More

Have you ever heard of a hutia? What about a manicou? When researching the animals in this part of the world, we were amazed at the many different animals we had never heard of before. If your students love learning about animals, they will be sure to eat this up! Here’s just a few of the animals we cover:

    • agouti
    • armadillo
    • bilby
    • cassowary
    • echidna
    • giant petrel
    • guacharo
    • harpy eagle
    • hutia
    • manicou
  • margay
  • nurse shark
  • quenk
  • quoll
  • rowi
  • scarlet ibis
  • tamarin
  • tayra
  • tuatara
  • viscacha

Student Book

The Student Book includes comprehension questions that follow the main text for each lesson. Various optional additional activities are provided in the student book. They include notebooking pages to encourage deeper study of a particular animal or plant, habitat templates for exploring the habitats they encounter, extension activities, and a bonus presentation project.
Discovering Plants and Animals Volume three Samples

  • Let’s Take a Closer Look:With this printable, your student can choose an animal or plant to do deeper research on. They can use the template to record the information they discover.
  • Habitat Templates:This set of 13 templates allows your student to investigate the plants and animals that live in a particular habitat and record what they find. A bonus blank template is also included for your student to research additional habitats if desired.
  • Extension Activities:This set of questions challenges your student to go deeper on topics briefly mentioned in the unit such as animals of the Amazon Rain Forest or types of flightless birds. A notebooking page is included to record answers.
  • Bonus Extension Activity:This bonus project suggests topics for a presentation related to the unit that your student can do and lists several options for the type of presentation, though the options are endless.

An answer key is also provided.

This science unit can stand alone, but if you want your kids to learn more about Canada, Latin America, Australia & Oceania, and more, check out Daily Skill Building: World Geography & History, which covers the same countries in the same order. A How To guide is also provided for completing both curricula together.

The main text is 111 pages and can be viewed on the computer rather than printed. The Student Book & Answer Key is 247 pages.

2 reviews for Discovering Plants and Animals Volume Three: Canada, Latin America & Beyond

  1. Denise Rodriguez

    This has been a fun curriculum! We really enjoy learning about plants and animals and appreciate how much material is covered. The text guide is easy to read and the student pages follow along nicely. Students start out by answering questions from the text guide and then they choose to research a plant or animal of their choice. Near the end of the Student pages there are Habitat Templates and Extension Activities. When purchasing the World Geography and History, this can be purchased as an add-on. The plants and animals follow along with Volume 3. The introduction has a guide to show you how to use both curriculum alongside each other. This can be purchased on it’s own and done as a stand alone. The World Geography and History is for grade 5-8, while this is for 3rd and up.

  2. Katherine Tanyu

    This curriculum can be used together with World Geography & History Volume Three as the places covered are the same. Or you can also use it by itself–they are not a prerequisite to each other. I love this structure because it delves deeper into a specific location giving the student a more thorough understanding of an area. I never knew that there are so many different kinds of plants and animals to talk about in a place. The student book is likewise comprehensive. I love the answer key at the back. Like World Geography & History, it has its own scope and sequence that acts as your guide in planning out the lessons–very easy to use!

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If you wish to add in a study of the world to your curriculum, check out Daily Skill Building: World Geography & History, Volume Three, which covers the same countries in the same order. A How To Guide is also provided for completing both curricula together.

world geography curriculum

Daily Skill Building: World Geography & History, Volume Three is the third and final volume in a three-year curriculum. It is a full-year world geography and history curriculum that explores the 14 independent countries of Oceania, the 13 provinces and territories of Canada, Mexico and the 13 independent countries of the Caribbean, all 7 independent countries of Central America, all 12 independent countries of South America, Antarctica, and 23 dependent areas of the United Kingdom and France.

Sample Textbook | Sample Student Pages | Scope & Sequence

Daily Skill Building: World Geography & History, Volume Three is written to the student in a tone that is easy to read and comprehend.

You’ll find the countries studied to be fascinating as we break it down into easy to digest nuggets of text to read each day.

Students will learn about:

  • People Groups and Cultures
  • Geography of Canada, Latin America & beyond
  • History of Canada, Latin America & beyond
  • Regions and Key Locations
  • World Landmarks
  • Kingdoms, Empires, Dynasties
  • People from the Past
  • And More!

There are 186 total lessons. Daily Skill Building: World Geography & History, Volume Three can be used as a 4-day or 5-day a week curriculum.

It includes everything you need to get started – no extra books to buy!

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