Geography-learning about Biomes

We have wrapped up our unit on Geography.  I am sure there is even more things we should covered but I felt it was time to move on to a different unit.  But the last thing I wanted to cover with the kids was the various Biomes of the world.  First the kids helped me make a Biomes chart to cover what we have learned.  While doing this activity I found out that there is some useful purpose for the computer game minecraft as my kids could already identify more than half of the biomes due to that game:)  The magazine Kids Discover released a freebie of 8 pages read along with a short quiz on biomes that we used as part of our reading along with our science book Real Science 4 Kids.

I wrote down all 10 biomes and the kids and I read thru the descriptions of the biomes and found pictures on the computer that we thought best represented each biome.

the next day as a review we played quick matching games of the pictures to the correct type of biome and glued down our pictures

Next  the kids use the computer to find types of animals that could be found in the biome...we limited it to two animals each due to our space on the poster.

After rereading the descriptions the kids decided how they wanted to write the definition down on the chart that they thought would best explain the biome which I then wrote it down.  The kids wrote in the animals that they found on the chart

 

Then we hung it up on our school room for future review.  (We corrected the misspelling on the poster:)  

A close up view of our chart

Next I wanted the children to identify where we could find these different biomes, so again using some resources I found on the web we completed a map, color coding the biomes around the world.

We have been using more and more maps in our lessons recently

We have had fun learning about Biomes and are now moving on to study weather and meteorology in our science lessons.