Horses are beautiful, graceful, powerful and useful mammals that make an exciting subject for an integrated, cross-curricular unit. The topic of horses in such a unit can be used to broaden children's vocabulary and enable them to explore art, provide them with hands-on activities in science and math, allow children to become aware of the horse's important role in history and learn about good grooming. Thus, the topic of horses can be used to teach children in the subject of language arts, ...