Oviparous+Animals+Kindergarten

My kindergartners do their very first research project during their science unit on oviparous animals (animals that lay eggs). The first week, I use a dinosaur puppet named the PLAN-a-saurus to explain the project to them and help them choose their animals. The next several weeks, the DO-a-saurus helps them conduct their research. Each student looks through a nonfiction book to find photographs of their animal's egg, baby, and adult. They draw these on their research paper using as many details as they can. On the back of their paper, they write down the title and the author of the book they used. I bind all the pages together into a class book. Then the next week, the REVIEW-a-saurus shows them the finished book and they talk about how they did on the project.

Here are a few examples: