Biome Cards of North America - Polar Regions

As part of our Native American Legends block (Waldorf grade 2), we are using the Biome Cards from Waseca Biomes. These are wonderful three-part cards (name, illustration, facts) with symbols on the back so that students can first try to match them and then independently check their own work.

The colorful border around the edge matches the colors of the Montessori Colored Globe of the Continents. North America is the orange continent.

I are using these cards in a small group setting, to introduce the new biome before we hear some legends that take place in it. The children were very familiar with the animals of the Temperate Forest of North America (the biome we live in), and much less familiar with the animals of other places.

These biome cards have a plant, an invertebrate, a fish, an amphibian, a reptile, a bird, and a mammal. They are available for ALL of the continents!

Although I love pairing the Native American Legends with these cards, I also keep thinking of other resources that connect with them, in case students use them for research and reports in later years. Now I'd like to make a list of all the cards in each set, so that I can keep my notes organized here.

Polar Regions

Arctic poppy

phoebus butterfly

Arctic char

Sweetest Kulu
by Celina Kalluk

wood frog

All Creation Waits
by Gayle Boss

rock ptarmigan

Mama, Do You Love Me?
by Barbara Joosse

musk ox

The Littlest Reindeer
by Johanna De Witt

The Burgess Animal Book for Children
by Thornton W. Burgess
CHAPTER XXXVII Thunderfoot, Fleetfoot and Longcoat

Note: there is no Reptile card in this set.

Here, by the way, is the complete list of the People of the Biomes cards.

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