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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Animals and Plants Can Live in a City!

For Teachers K - 1st
In this interactive instructional activity, students learn that animals need air, food, water, and shelter, while plants need air, sunlight, and water. Students watch videos and engage with drawing and sorting activities to reinforce...
Interactive
PBS

Peep and the Big Wide World: Animals and Plants

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This learning game has students follow different animal tracks and collect berries along the way.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Grassland Biome: Animals and Plants

For Students 4th - 7th
Describes the characteristics, biodiversity, and the adaptations of the plants and animals of temperate and tropical grasslands.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Mojave Desert Animals and Plants

For Students 4th - 8th
Describes characteristics and adaptations of plants and animals that are able to survive in the Mojave Desert and a list of each.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Desert Biome: A Guide to Its Animals and Plants

For Students 4th - 7th
Describes many of the plants and animals that live in deserts and their special adaptations that have enabled them to survive there. Also describes four types of deserts.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Taiga Biome: Taiga Animals and Plants

For Students 4th - 7th
Describes the characteristics of the taiga biome and the plants and animals that live there.
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University of California

South Coast Science Project: Mimicking Plants and Animals Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, young scholars are challenged to think about external features that animals and plants have that humans have copied. Students then apply their engineering skills to design a jacket. In addition, this activity introduces...
Website
Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
This online site for the Australian Museum introduces the nature and culture of this unique continent. This particular section focuses on the creatures of Australia including spiders, fish, birds, reptiles, mammals, insects, frogs,...
Handout
Other

The Nature Conservancy (Australia): 10 Weird and Wonderful Wildlife of Australia

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about some of the unique animals in Australia. A description of each animal and a high-resolution photograph are provided.
Website
Texas Parks and Wildlife

Tpwd: Nongame and Rare Species Program: Federal and State Listed Species

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides information about animals and plants in Texas that are protected under state and/or federal law due to their status as threatened or endangered. A species can be on both a state list and a federal list or on just one. Links to...
Interactive
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Lifecycles of Animals and Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
This segment covers the lifecycles of various plants and animals. Illustrations begin with the production of a gamete and describe the processes that occur throughout the lifespan of living creatures.
Website
Other

Boreal /Fauna and Flora of Boreal Forests

For Students 9th - 10th
This page offers a detailed collection of photos and info on plant and animal species of the boreal forest. Pictorial glossary.
Handout
US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Climate Change: Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how plants and animals adapt to changes in ecosystems.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Young Angler by Thomas Miller

For Students 2nd - 4th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Young Angler by Thomas Miller [1870], a narrative that describes animals and plants in the countryside.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Ecosystems in Action [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
In this lesson, 4th graders explore animals and plants that inhabit ecosystems by using movement to deepen the retention of vocabulary. After reviewing the ecosystem players, students will play a call and response game by responding with...
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Other

Australian Tourism: Facts and Planning

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is the official website for Australian tourism. It presents facts about Australia's geography, weather and climate, time zones, currency, and plants and animals, accompanied by excellent imagery. A useful feature of this page is...
Graphic
Other

Biodome De Montreal: Fact Sheets: Plants and Animals of the Biodome

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a searchable database with fact sheets for animals and for plants from a variety of ecosystems, including tropical forests and the Antarctic. The fact sheets have several pictures and very detailed information about each species.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Hush Down Under

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this instructional activity young scholars will listen to a read-aloud of Possum Magic, by Mem Fox. Students will then help the teacher search the Internet for Australian connections (animals and habitats). The young scholars will...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Lewis and Clark: The Language of Discovery

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Lewis and Clark discovered many new animals and plants, and they mapped areas unknown. Young students will draw pictures of some of the discovered animals and write about them; older students will mimic the mapping expedition around...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Differentiated Tiering Food Web and Chains Activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Two differentiated tasks about food chains and webs. In the more challenging task, students construct a food web to show the relationship of the animals and plants in a given environment. In the lower level task, students create a food...
Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Adaptations, Interdependence and Competition Aqa

For Students 9th - 10th
The abundance and distribution of organisms in an ecosystem is determined by biotic and abiotic factors. Animals and plants have adaptations to allow them to compete for resources.
Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Plants and Animals: Partners in Pollination

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Smithsonian Education presents a series of three lesson plans whose focus is plants and animals in their role as partners in pollination. Each lesson plan comes complete with clear learning objectives, materials list, subjects covered,...
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Other

Forest and Bird: Kiwi Conservation Club

For Students 3rd - 8th
A place for learning about New Zealand's wildlife and wild places, Kiwi Conservation Club is home to a range of activities and glossy, illustrated pages on topics of interest to young naturalists. Also view the latest issue of Wild...
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Teacher Oz

Teacher Oz: Texas Natural History and the Great Outdoors

For Students 9th - 10th
Teacher has organized many sites under these headings: Texas Natural History, Regions of Texas, Texas Animals, Texas Plants, Texas weather, Texas natural disasters, Galveston, Texas State parks, national historical landmarks, Texas...

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