Christian Kids Explore Biology

This year we're starting a new science curriculum, Christian Kids Explore Biology.  I'm excited for it.  I like the way it's written and I think it's doable with the rest of what we're tackling this year.

 I'm getting ready this morning for unit 1.  A friend of mine mentioned that her goal is to make all the copies she needs for the next month.  I thought that was an awesome idea.  But, I know I don't have the planning time Here are the resources that I needed this morning.  I'm going to add to this post what I need as we go, in case it might be helpful to someone else.

 Extra Needed Resources:

 First, I made a worksheet in Word that listed all the biomes and asked for a short description.

 These sites can be used for kids' research:
http://mrsdelgado.edublogs.org/2010/06/09/biomes-of-the-world/
http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/
http://iss.schoolwires.com/Page/23411
http://www.pkwy.k12.mo.us/edline/webbuilder/assignment.cfm?thebuilding=43&UserID=wmslib&TeacherCourseID=9A6D4314-ED72-A653-DFA84004F0FA62F6

 Food Web worksheet:
http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/food-chains/food-web-worksheet_WMNRM.pdf
http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/food-chains/producer-consumer-decomposer_WMNRT.pdf

 It is hard to find sites appropriate for kids without a lot of advertising, but these sites seemed pretty good from my quick glance at them.

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