Prairie Dog Notebooking and Fact Flip Book Printables
Your elementary and middle school students can use these free Prairie Dogs notebooking pages and Fact Flip Book when they are studying the five extant species of the Genus Cynomys.
Did you know that prairie dogs are thought to be one of the smartest animals on the planet?
Or that prairie dogs are considered a “keystone species”? That means that prairie dogs are critical to the survival of other animals in that ecosystem.
You and your students will learn all about prairie dogs when you let your students use these three differentiated levels of the Prairie Dogs Notebooking and Fact Flip Book Printables as a part of their science and biology study while they write, draw, and color what they’ve learned about these cousins to the squirrel.
These notebooking pages are generally for students working at the 2nd to 8th grade levels.
The Prairie Dog Facts Flip Book will help your students understand how prairie dogs relate to their habitat and live within a certain social structure.
Online resources, videos, and book recommendations are below to help you and your students learn more about these burrowing mammals from the class Mammalia, order Rodentia, family Sciuridae, tribe Marmotini, genus Cynomys.
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Resources for Learning about Prairie Dogs
Library List
In order of difficulty:
P is for Prairie Dog by Anthony Fredericks
Prairie Dogs by Emery Bernhard Also on Open Library
Rabbits, Squirrels and Chipmunks: Take-Along Guide by Mel Boring** (If you want to compare and contrast the prairie dog with a squirrel or other rodent)
Prairie Dog Town by Janette Oke Also on Open Library
Pe-Pie-Po the Prairie Dog: The Rattler and the Blizzard by Josie Hudson
Prairie Dogs in Prairie Dog Town by Irmengarde Eberle OOP, but it’s on Open Library
At Home with the Prairie Dog: The Story of a Keystone Species OR Prairie Dogs both by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
**highly recommended for your home library
Online Resources for Learning about Prairie Dogs
Prairie Dogs, A Keystone Species
What are Prairie Dogs? with Jack’s World of Wildlife
Prairie Dog facts from the National Park Service
Prairie Dog Manor a series from Nat Geo Wild
Fun Extras
Gather up some friends or cousins to play Prairie Dog Pick Off
Color this prairie dog printable from Nat Geo Kids (scroll down to the “P” for prairie dog section)
You may also be interested in our sister site’s North American Mammals Fact Cards that cover 30 North American Mammals (Woodlands, Prairie, and Aquatic) that Lewis and Clark encountered on their journey through the middle and north west of North America.
Prairie Dogs Facts Flip Book, Notebooking and Journaling Printables
These notebooking pages come in 3 levels to fit all of your student’s needs. There’s a large elementary-lined one, a smaller elementary-lined one, and a regular-lined one. There are 44 printable pages in total.
Each level of the Prairie Dogs printables also comes in a photo, a color graphic, and a printer ink friendly black/white.
These free notebooking printables would even work for copying a poem or quote about Prairie Dogs, their role in the prairie ecosystem, or the prairie habitat.
Additionally, there are 3 pages that make a Prairie Dogs Facts Flip Book that are included in this pack.
Download your copy of the Prairie Dogs Notebooking and Fact Flip Book Printables from the Free Resource Library. Look under Individual Notebooking > Science > Animals
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More Mammals Resources for Your Homeschool
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