Kingdoms and Classification

The full-color Course Book guides the parent through each lesson in the Kingdoms and Classification science course. Hands-on activities, vocabulary words, access to captivating videos, vocabulary words, mini books, beautiful illustrations and images, along with engaging information is found throughout the course. Once you gather any simple lesson supplies, the lessons are open-and-go. Just turn to a lesson and start reading and learning together! This course is taught family-style and only one Course Book is needed per family. 

• 79 pages
• Full-color
• 11 lessons
• Wire bound; 8.5″x11″

A Student Journal for each child is also needed to complete this course.

Each student grades 3–6 needs their own copy of the 32-page Kingdoms and Classification Student Journal which includes interactive activities, games, and worksheets the child will complete during the lessons. The parent-led lessons in the Course Book will direct the student regarding when to complete the Student Journal activities.

• 32 pages
• Full-color
• Saddle stitched; three-hole punched; perforated; 8.5″x11″

Each student grades 7–8 needs their own copy of the 56-page Kingdoms and Classification Student Journal which includes interactive activities, games, and worksheets the child will complete during the lessons. The parent-led lessons in the Course Book will direct the student regarding when to complete the Student Journal activities. The grades 7–8  journal also includes a student-directed Lesson Extension for each lesson. These allow your older students to dive deeper into the lesson concepts.

• 56 pages
• Full-color
• Saddle stitched; three-hole punched; perforated; 8.5″x11″

Two full-color, interactive books included in the optional Kingdoms and Classification Read-Aloud Book Pack expand learning and provide a fun, engaging addition to your Kingdoms and Classification study.

Discover and journey through the invisible world of the tiny living creatures doing amazing jobs from on your very own skin to in the deepest parts of the ocean in Microbes—The Tiny Creatures Around Us. (21 pages, 10”x7”)

Through fascinating trivia that is both fun and engaging, you will learn about the classification of familiar and unique plants and animals, even some you may have never heard of in Taxonomy Trivia. (32 pages, 10”x7”)

These books are all published by The Good and the Beautiful Library and are designed to appeal to children in grades K–8. Lessons will prompt students when to read these optional books, but they are not integrated with the lessons.

From the warm, humid forests of Madagascar to the frigid glaciers of Antarctica, and from the decomposing trunk of a fallen oak tree to the mystery leftovers in the back of your fridge, fungi are hard at work breaking down dead organic matter as the earth’s recycling superstars. Get ready to be amazed, and enjoy exploring the captivating world of fungi!

11″x8.5″, 48 pages, full color, written by Molly Sanchez

This book is suggested to accompany our Kingdoms and Classification science unit as extra reading for students in Grades 7-8.