Click on the icons to find a myriad of pictures, sound files, and facts about the different animals. This page is dedicated to the ranch's farm animals, consisting of horses, cattle, dogs, sheep, goats, ducks, turkeys, geese, chickens, and llamas. Its primary purpose is to provide a safe educational activity for young children to learn about outdoor environments that they might otherwise not be able to experience. The Kids Farm Web site, operated by the folks from the Red Bluff Ranch on the western slope of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, is a great site for preschool and elementary school students. The following sites are among the best on the Web for teaching children to understand and respect farm animals. National Farm Animals Awareness Week promotes awareness of and dispels misconceptions about farm animals. The Humane Society of the United States launched its eighth annual National Farm Animals Awareness Week celebration on September 17, 2000. What better time to enjoy some lively, informative, and fun Web sites all about farm animals? You can see them all here.From September 17 to 23, the Humane Society of the United States and its local chapters are promoting public awareness of farm animals - those productive, hardworking creatures that contribute so much to our survival and comfort. Finally we published the websites and pasted the links to Google classroom. Some students even added videos after class. I showed them how to add a caption by double clicking next to a picture and choosing the text box option from the pop-up menu.
For images, the students used the built-in Google image search to find copyright-free pictures of their animals. Then they added a text box and typed the facts they found in their own words (we reviewed the problems with plagiarism). Students went to their Google drive and selected “New > More > Google Sites.” They added a title and found a suitable background header image.
To create the websites we used the new Google sites. There are also several great sites for researching animals: National Geographic Kids, Go Wild by WWF, A-Z Animals, and Arkive (more advanced reading, but lots of photos and videos). I showed them how to do quick Google searches to find the information they needed, such as “animal name + predators,” for example. Next, I gave them some guidelines for their research: they had to find out the animal’s (1) habitat, (2) predators, (3) prey or diet, (4) length, and (5) an interesting fact. First the students chose their animals (we made sure that there weren’t too many duplicates by brainstorming a variety). Rivara’s class researched an animal and created a website about it. Fourth graders at Holladay Elementary have been learning about animal ecosystems in Science (SOL4.5) and measuring length in Math (SOL4.6).
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