Reptile lesson for kindergarten/1st grade

[DooLittle]

I love this! I want to do something like this in the store for one of our "workshop weekends".

What kind of things do you focus on for a younger group of kids vs an older group?

This post is actually super neat, thanks for sharing! I'm gonna try out a "kid session" at our workshop next week.

-Jen

The OP's ideas were all great. Also, our daughters teacher got out the old "overhead projector", which is linked to the internet nowadays. She put up a map on the screen, and then had her show where on a map the originated from. What kind of climate, what they eat, etc. It really is great, and the kids are just in awe.

[gardenfiend138]

Thanks for all of the positive feedback, I wish I got this kind of stuff in school too!
It was funny how many students were caught up in the fact that ball pythons are so shy! Went totally against many of their beliefs. I have had several parents coming into the classroom too to check her out.
For kindergarten and first grade, the science standards focus on characteristics of different classes of animals, describing features of animals, and making and recording observations. I did this with a 5th grade class once, but we focused on navigating informational texts, and on native California species.
That's actually a great idea about the map, it lets us hit an additional 1st grade standard! It will be easy enough to squeeze a 3 minute conversation about it.
Thank you again for all of the positive comments!

[DooLittle]

YAY! I LOVE this thread. Because I love my daughter, my snakes, and educating people about them, as well as being involved in her school!

[sbit]

This is so great! Thank you for doing this.

When I was a little kid, a bat rescue group once brought bats to class to show students, and I was scared... They taught us all about them, how they live, not to bother them, but not to be afraid either. We got to pet them gently and they were so shy and fuzzy, I fell in love!

Here's hoping you can do the same for someone with snakes!