National Geographic ANIMAL Videos

Subject: Science
Grade: 3
Topic: Animals

A really great interactive site I found for kids was National Geographic. There is a link to videos and I think that would really capture kid's attention and create motivation. There are close to 80 different videos on animals. Most are between 1-2 minutes long. In my classroom I would have the students explore about 4-5 different videos and they can decide what interests them. Then I would have them sign up for which one they want to report on. I have connected this to the Science curriculum for Grade 3 in the core unit of Animals. From the information, they learned in the video, they would write a short summary and then display that in some form such as a poster, diorama, skit, clay, etc. There is also a link to the Colouring Book Page that has a list of many of the animals in the videos, so they would be able to print that off as possibly a cover page to their mini-report instead of just having an actual photo of the animal.