Please contact our Education Coordinator if you would have a program idea you would like developed, and we will work to accommodate your request.

Preschool – Kindergarten Educational Resources (sorted by topic)

1) Digital: What’s Growing in the Woods in April – Click on the title to learn about early spring wildflowers and other plants with your child or class. Each page identifies one plant and includes a large picture and a fact or question to help children began to identify nature around them. This PDF can be viewed digitally or printed.

SC3.1: Demonstrate awareness of life.

  1. Infant: Demonstrate interest in and interact with plants, animals, and people.
  2. Younger toddler: Identify living organisms by name.
  3. Older toddler: Name characteristics of living organisms.
  4. Younger preschool: Compare attributes of living organisms.
  5. Older preschool: Identify and describe the functions of body parts.

K.3.3: Describe and compare living plants in terms of growth, parts, shape, size, color, and texture.

2) Digital: Who’s Eating at the Feeder – Click on the title to learn about some of the many songbirds native to Indiana. Each picture identifies one or more species using a large picture and a fact or question to help children began identifying birds outside of their windows and in nature. This PDF can be viewed digitally or printed.

SC3.1: Demonstrate awareness of life.

  1. Infant: Demonstrate interest in and interact with plants, animals, and people.
  2. Younger toddler: Identify living organisms by name.
  3. Older toddler: Name characteristics of living organisms.
  4. Younger preschool: Compare attributes of living organisms. Identify the correct names for adult and baby animals.
  5. Older preschool: Identify and describe the functions of body parts.

K.3.2: Describe and compare living animals in terms of shape, texture of body covering, size, weight, color and the way they move.

3) Coloring sheet: Orchid flower (Cattleya intermedia)

Download and print the PDF to color using traditional medias. Or, click on the link to color the picture digitally on scrapcoloring.com. Recommended for ages 3 and up.

 

4) Coloring sheet: Bee on Flowers

Download and print the PDF to color using traditional medias. Or, click on the link to color the picture digitally on scrapcoloring.com. Recommended for ages 3 and up.

 

5) Coloring sheet: Ladyslipper Orchid

Download and print the PDF to color using traditional medias. Recommended for ages 3 and up. Digital version not available.