Today's Classroom Activities :

Animal Tracks - Classroom Activities

Snowy Footprints
Science/Poetry/Art Use the fun poem below to introduce animal tracks to your students. Then go outside and make animal and kid tracks in the snow. Or, create them in the classroom in clay using chenille sticks to make little squirrel tracks; students can create dog tracks using their thumbs. Also mention that January 21 is Squirrel Appreciation Day. Maybe you could plan to leave a pile of nuts outside the classroom window for our furry friends.

Squirrel Tracks

by Marie Cecchini

Chitter, chatter,
Scold, scold
Gray squirrels scoot,
Through winter's cold.

Over ice,
Over snow,
Leaving footprints
As they go.

Caught by a fingerprint - or is it an animal track? Learn How To...Identify Fingerprints and Animal Tracks with these activities.

Draw various animal tracks on a sheet of chart paper from a book like Winter: Tracks in the Snow by Janet McDonnell (Scholastic, 1994). Read the book to your students and ask them to identify the animal track you've drawn as you read from the book.