Mother Opossum and Her Babies

📖 The Scoop

In this series of fun and playful activities, young children meet the only North American marsupial, learning a lot about opossums, marsupials, and animal behavior. Drama, role-playing, and art are interwoven with science, math, and language arts as students make model opossum pouches, create baby opossums with pipe cleaner tails, and sniff out and munch on opossum snacks. Throughout the unit, children gain practice measuring, estimating, and counting, and, in the culminating activity, they make a book of drawings and writings about opossums.

The activities can be done in classrooms, day care centers, or at home, and are ment for anyone who works with children. Complete information on opossums is provided for adults, along with lists of resources and children's literature. The activities have been extensively tested by educators across the country.

A fascinating nocturnal creature, the opossum is close to the imaginations of many children. These creative, teacher-tested Opossum activities provide a wealth of meaningful and positive learning experiences.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction
Activity 1 Getting to Know Opossums
Session 1 Introducing Opossums
Session 2 Young Opossum Snacks
Session 3 Mother Opossum and Me
Session 4 Measuring Mother Opossum with Common Objects
Session 5 An Opossum's Paws
Activity 2 Mother Opossum's Pouch
Session 1 What's Inside the Pouch?
Session 2 How Many Babies in Mother Opossum's Pouch?
Session 3 Counting Our Pockets
Activity 3 Young Opossums
Session 1 Little Opossums Grow Up
Session 2 A Young Opossum's Tricks
Session 3 Measuring Young Opossums
Session 4 A Class Book
BackgroundInformation
Assessment Suggestions
Resources
Literature Connections
Summary Outlines

Genre: Education / Teaching / Subjects / Science & Technology (fancy, right?)