We were sent this amazing link through our homeschooling group.
What is it you say? It is an archive of thousands of videos of animals in thier natural habitat. Get it ARKive! Not only do you get the video, you get all the classification and habitat information right to the side of your screen. Amazing.
It is more captiviating then National Geographic because there is no narrator to get in the way of the experience. Just the animal in its natural habitat doing whatever it does.
I can see this being an ever useful daily tool. We just read Owl Babies (one of my all time favorite children’s picture books) then went to ARKive and typed Owl in the search engine and watched real baby owls.
“They look just like the picture, mom!” I heard as little ones sat captivated to the screen.
I see whole new applications going on as we read through The Burgess Animal Book for Children!
Here’s another fascinating one we watched…a beaver felling a tree. Who doesn’t want to watch that? REALITY TV in its truest state!
Added to my Free Homeschool Resources list under Nature Study!
simply necessary 