Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Animal Environment and Adaptation
For this lesson, students will enjoy different activities focusing on how animals adapt to their environments. They will begin by researching two animals, their environment, and the ways the animals adapt to this environment. In small...
Mind My Education
Mind My Education: The Life of Environments
This extensive lesson plan covers various topics about how animals interact with their environment. Topics include how animals sense their environment, how environments and organisms change together, and how animals use their senses to...
Geographypods
Geographypods: Theme 2: Natural Environments
A rich collection of highly engaging learning modules on topics related to the natural environment. Covers four main areas - plate tectonics, forms and processes, weather and climate, and rainforest and desert. Within each of these,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Design Challenge: Animating Grass
In this activity, students will Animate grass using the controls provided. It will show a single blade and a patch of grass.
BBC
Bbc Schools: Ks2 Bitesize: Science: Living Things: Plant and Animal Habitats
Place the aliens in the habitats where they can survive the best. Following the activity, read more about plant and animal habitats, and then take a quick quiz to check for understanding.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian: Ocean Planet: Interdisciplinary Marine Science Activities
Smithsonian Institution presents ?Ocean Planet: Interdisciplinary Marine Science Activities?. Through this series of six interdisciplinary lessons, students will look at such things as the organisms in different marine ecosystems, the...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Animal Game Impact of Human Activity or Natural Disasters
A description of a lesson where students first listen to a story where they begin to think about and discuss the impact humans and natural disasters have on the environment. They then play a board game. This requires preparation...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Observing and Creating Sketches of an Outdoor Environment
Students use their senses to observe nature then sketch a plant and/or animal in their science journals using detail and color. Using these sketches, they will create classroom books which are shared with the class.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Hands on Activity: String Art
This is a hands on activity designed to follow the first lesson on string art. Students will use needle and thread to create interesting string art designs. Specific steps are provided with suggested times for each. The activity is most...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Arctic Animal Robot
Students create four-legged walking robots and measure how far they travel across different types of surfaces. They design and create "shoes" to add to the robots' feet and observe the effect of their modifications on the net distance...
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Human and Animal Habitats
An interactive learning game where students answer whether or not certain environments would be suitable for different animals. Printable worksheets are available for review at the end of the activity.
Quia
Quia: Spanish Animal Name Games
Use this website to practice your Spanish animal names using matching game, flashcards, concentration, and word search type formats.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Snails: Population Calculation in an Aquatic Environment
A 3-day field investigation where students visit an aquatic area and collect snails. These are examined, the species identified, and the body parts and characteristics studied and recorded. Then the snails are returned to their homes....
Other
Jane Goodall Institute: Roots and Shoots
Find out how you can become a global citizen and bring about positive change for communities, animals, and the environment. Here's a program from the Jane Goodall Institute that can help you become involved.
NOAA
Noaa: National Ocean Service Education: Estuaries
Illustrated tutorial explains estuary ecosystems. Animations and illustrations help students become more familiar with the plant and animal communities which make up this coastal habitat.
National Wildlife Federation
National Wildlife Federation: Ranger Rick
This is a very fun and engaging resource for kids and teachers. Students can learn about wildlife and ecology while reading stories and articles, playing games, and doing activities.
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Kids' Pages: Sharon Cleans Up!
In this online children's story, Sharon, with the help of her animal friends, cleans up the pollution in our environment to make it a happier and healthier place to live. Site includes other fun activities and games as well as parent and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Map a Buddy
This activity serves to introduce the concept of tracking and spatial movements of animals in relation to the environment in which they live. The following activity will aid student understanding of animal tracking and how technology...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Homework Helper: Organism Needs (Habitats)
An interactive game asks you to identify the habitat needs of certain animals by building a suitable habitat for a parrot, lion, and beaver.
Other
Bradfords Woods: Eagles to the Nest [Pdf]
This thematic curriculum which focuses on bald eagles revolves around a three-day field trip to Bradford Woods in Indiana. However, many of the activities could be adapted for other environments, and the background material is useful,...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Insulating Against the Cold
In this activity, students use a Temperature Sensor to test the insulating efficiency of different samples of fabric. They examine the properties that make a fabric a better insulator. They extend this to understand how animals adapt to...
Other
Do something.org
Do Something is a nationwide network of young people who know they can make a difference in their communities and take action to change the world around them. As part of Do Something, young people are asked what they want to do to make...
Other
Kids Think Design: A Design Resource for Kids, Parents, and Teachers
A fantastic resource for future designers. Students can tap into their creative juices through various interactive activities and by learning about professionals in their field of interest. Design fields include fashion, graphic,...
PBS
Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Games: Sounds Like Fun!
Cleverly animated game that alerts young learners to the musical sounds all around them in their everyday environments. A useful exercise in helping children understand sound patterns and repetitive beats and the meaning of start and...