Created By: First & Second Graders
Orvis Risner Elementary School
Edmond, Oklahoma

“Students studied the different kinds of animals in North America, Africa and Australia, then drew them. It helped them recognized the animals’ differences and similarities. As the students talked about the animals, they recognized the differences in themselves. They also recognized and talked about the similarities of the animals to each other. All these ideas are combined in this 50-pound disk.”