Build STEAM Skills Draw an Arctic Fox
Drawing an Arctic Fox or other Arctic animals is a great way to enhance your curriculum of habitat and hibernation.
Young children are generally most comfortable drawing from memory or imagination. Introducing them to drawing from observation or to “draw what they see,” will not only increase artistic skills and techniques, it will also build other important skills such as communication, understanding, and documentation.
Following is a lesson to Draw an Arctic Fox through observation:
To begin, show students a short video of an Arctic Fox in action.
Next, display a few photos of Arctic Foxes and then discuss the features. (draw on top of the photo while discussing if possible.)
Do you see the shape of a fox’s face? (Draw an oval on top of the face).
Do you see the triangle ears?
What shape is the body, legs, tail, etc.
Do you see how one leg is behind the body and the other is on the side, etc….. calling out all details of the fox that are needed for a successful observational drawing.
Be sure to ask students what they see in addition…. What shape are the eyes, nose, etc.
Additional discussions would include the claws, the whiskers, the fur, and so forth.
After the observational discussions with one or more photos, draw an example.
In front of the students draw an Arctic Fox as you “think aloud’ observations.
Pass each student a blue paper and a white pencil or crayon. (Remove your sample from student view).
Task students to use their observation skills to draw the Arctic Fox.
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Arctic and Antarctic Regions Thematic Unit.
You will love this unit as you and your classroom or homeschool students learn about the Polar Animals that live in Arctic or Antarctic Regions such as penguins, polar bears, walrus and more?
Teach the academic Core Standards with confidence by using these strategically linked cross-curricular, thematic activities. You and your students will love them! They are classroom tested with perfect results!
Contents include:
Shared Reading Activities:
The Whale & The Penguin: Group Poetry Activity
Arctic Friends: Retell a Story
Literacy Activities
Glacier Bay: Phoneme Segmentation
Glacier Melt Down: Fluently Naming Alphabet Sounds
March of the Penguins: Alphabet Letter Fluency
Arctic Hunt: Nonsense Word Fluency
Walrus Waddle & Walk: Writing Beginning Sounds
Igloo Match: Matching Upper and Lowercase Letters
Arctic Animal Names: Writing Missing Letters
Math Activities:
Polar Bears in the Cave: Counting On
Penguin Playground: Adding to and Taking Away
Inuit Count: Joining Sets
Rescuing Penguins: Identifying Teen Numbers
Polar Bear Fishing: Comparing Quantities
Comparing Igloos: Comparing Written Numerals
Inuit Friends: Composing Numbers
Writing Prompts/Word Wall
Arctic Word Wall
The Penguins
Polar Animals
Label It
Guided Reading Books
Arctic Friends
Class Made Book
Arctic Friends
Art Projects
Walrus
My Inuit Friend
Penguin
Science
Ice Race: Exploring Properties of Water
North Pole Facts?South Pole Facts
Blubber Experiment:How Polar Animals Keep Warm
Songs
North and South
Arctic Friends
© Kathy Crane Kindergarten Kiosk
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Polar Bears are fascinating mammals. Help your students learn more by conducting a digital research study on polar bears using a web quest landing page. This activity will be a great companion to your Winter-Themed studies.
Contents Include
What I Already Know
Polar Bear Vocabulary Cards
Polar Bear My Vocabulary Book
Polar Bear Research Notes
Polar Bear Diagram
Polar Bear Report
Polar Bear News Flash
Polar Bear Drawing
Polar Bear Writing a Nonfiction Story
Polar Bear Painting
© Kathy Crane Kindergarten Kiosk
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Winter Guided Sight Word Readers Set 1
Winter Guided Sight Word Readers Set 2
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