Home Sweet Home

Your students will be shown:

•What animal homes look like, including those of barn swallows, squirrels, and wasps.
•The materials animals use to build their homes.
•How to collect the materials and build a nest.

Animal builders create homes that are just right for them. They use materials from things in nature that are around them, and they have built-in construction tools. Viewers see how a beaver and a weaver bird build their intricate homes. Celia gets a firsthand look at the plants and animals that live in a pond neighborhood. A young scientist shows Crinkleroot his bird nest building kit.

Teacher’s Guide activities engage your students in:
•Writing a classified ad for an animal home as though they are theanimal selling it.
•Learning the functions of homes for different animals.
•Making a lift-the-flap book about animals and their homes.

Rights granted with the purchase Include: a) life of media audiovisual use, b) public performance, c) campus or building closed circuit and digital/video-on-demand transmission.

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Ideal for Grades: K -3
Duration: 30 minutes
Closed Captioned
Producer: 1997 OnScreen Entertainment
Series #686