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Mammals Presentation

Mammals

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewMammals include more than 4,000 species and represent the most dominant land animals on Earth. Scholars learn about the large variety of mammals, including orders unfamiliar to most. The presentation highlights the characteristics and...
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Energy Flow in an Ecosystem Presentation

Energy Flow in an Ecosystem

6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewEvery living thing requires a food source, thus the interconnections in ecosystems become complex. Scholars learn about these interconnections in a presentation on energy flow. It starts with the sun and moves through many different...
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Energy Flow Through an Ecosystem: Food Chains, Food Webs, and Energy Pyramids Presentation

Energy Flow Through an Ecosystem: Food Chains, Food Webs, and Energy Pyramids

6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewWhen a minnow eats a piece of plastic, that garbage often tracks through multiple animals, causing harm to each as it passes through the food chain. Scholars learn about food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids with a presentation. It...
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Why Are Millipedes Cuter Than Centipedes? - From A to B Video

Why Are Millipedes Cuter Than Centipedes? - From A to B

10 mins 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
In an invertebrate beauty pageant, why do millipedes always scuttle away with the crown? Part four of a five-part series of Invertebrate videos compares and contrasts the millipede with the centipede in terms of diet, behavior, and body...
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Modeling Food Webs in Darién, Panama Activities & Project

Modeling Food Webs in Darién, Panama

6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
It's a jungle out there! Young biologists journey to Darien, Panama to examine the intricate relationships between the organisms that inhabit the jungle. Groups begin by demonstrating an understanding of energy flow in ecosystems, then...
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The Time Terror Birds Invaded Video

The Time Terror Birds Invaded

6 mins 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Like something from a low-budget horror movie, terror birds ruled the roost in South America millions of years ago. Things didn't go as well when they headed north! With an intriguing video, biology scholars explore the massive migration...
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Formative Assessment #3 Assessment

Formative Assessment #3

3rd - 5th
Thirteen short-answer questions follow a brief food web activity in a formative assessment designed to test knowledge of ecosystems and the energy that flows through them.
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How Did Teeth Evolve? Video

How Did Teeth Evolve?

5 mins 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Tooth be told, your class is gonna love this video! Science scholars look beyond simple cell types and enter the world of teeth. The narrator describes how we think teeth evolved to their present form, how form dictates function, and how...
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Olinguito Video

Olinguito

6 mins 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Sometimes a brand new species of mammal is hiding right under our noses! Meet the olinguito, a raccoon-like mammal from South America. Part of a larger playlist on mammals, an interesting video discusses how a researcher from The...
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How Worms Turn Garbage into Compost Video

How Worms Turn Garbage into Compost

5 mins 9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Worm feces is gold to gardeners and farmers. Earthworms have a special enzyme that allows them to break down the cellulose found in plant materials. An episode of a longer science playlist explores this process, which creates...
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The Dino Files: Dinosaurs at a Glance Worksheet

The Dino Files: Dinosaurs at a Glance

2nd - 6th
CCSS: Adaptable
Learn the basics to getting started with the Dino Series articles by Encyclopedia Britannica and adapted by Newslea. Read about the notable characteristics of dinosaurs, including what they ate, how they walked, and where they lived...
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The Dino Files: Velociraptor Worksheet

The Dino Files: Velociraptor

2nd - 6th
CCSS: Adaptable
Movies have depicted the Velociraptor as a large, vicious dinosaur. Although they may have been vicious, Velociraptors were much smaller in size, allowing them to move fast and catch their prey. Read to find out more about this complex...
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The Dino Files: Allosaurus Worksheet

The Dino Files: Allosaurus

2nd - 6th
CCSS: Adaptable
The Tyrannosaurus rex may have met its match with the carnivorous Allosaurus, otherwise known as the other lizard. The Allosaurus, however, walked Earth's lands much later than the T.rex. Read about this flesh-eating dinosaur and its...
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Energy Transfer in Trophic Levels Video

Energy Transfer in Trophic Levels

3 mins 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Learn more about food chains, the food web, and the concepts relating to them. It focuses on consumers, producers, decomposers, energy transfer, and energy loss across trophic levels.
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Sharks Worksheet

Sharks

2nd
CCSS: Adaptable
"Dun dun... dun dun." A shark! After second graders read a four-paragraph passage about sharks, they respond to four reading comprehension questions that use the text as a basis for the answers.
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Leaf Litter Ecology Lab Lesson Plan

Leaf Litter Ecology Lab

7th - 9th
CCSS: Adaptable
Some organisms spend their entire lives in leaf litter. The third in a series of six is a great activity exploring the community of leaf litter. Groups gather and then spread leaf litter over white paper and remove leaves/twigs while...
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Meat-Eating Plants Video

Meat-Eating Plants

3 mins K - 5th
CCSS: Adaptable
Do carnivorous plants have sharp teeth? Are they vicious meat-eating organisms? Not quite, but there are plants that eat insects to survive, like venus flytraps and pitcher plants. Discover how and why these plants eat meat in an...
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What do Animals Eat? Activities & Project

What do Animals Eat?

6th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Cats and dogs throw up after eating grass because their digestive system isn't built to process these fibrous proteins. The activity allows pupils to explore animal feeding habits. Scholars discuss and define carnivores, omnivores, and...
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Arctic Smorgasbord Lesson Plan

Arctic Smorgasbord

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Though the walrus spends roughly one third of its time on land, it eats organisms that live on the bottom of the ocean. The first in a series of five, the lesson uses a variety of plant and animal cards to have scholars build an arctic...
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Bering Sea Fabulous Food Chain Game Lesson Plan

Bering Sea Fabulous Food Chain Game

6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
In spring, the Bering Sea turns green due to phytoplankton, which live at the surface, experiencing a population explosion. Groups of scholars play a food chain game, writing down food chains as the game is played. After five to six...
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Breaking Down Ecosystems
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Breaking Down Ecosystems

6th - 8th
Ecosystems are crucial in allowing for the flow of energy. In this collection, learners look at how energy flows from one organism to another through food chains and food webs. With videos, interactives, and worksheets, the material in the collection is great for a week long study of ecosystems. The end of the collection provides a quiz for young life scientists to show what they learned.
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Sustainability and Extinction Lesson Plan
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Sustainability and Extinction

6th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Galapagos Penguins are the only penguins on earth that live north of the equator (in the wild). In this last lesson a discussion on how the Galapagos islands developed their populations and diversity sparks the introduction. Two...
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Succession Lesson Plan

Succession

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
The final lesson in a two-part series prompts scholars to create newspaper articles and succession events. Applying their knowledge of the ecosystem and the past examples of succession, they predict what will happen in the future using...
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How Ecosystems Work Worksheet

How Ecosystems Work

6th - 9th
How does one organism get its energy? What is the main source of energy in an ecosystem? How does the flow of energy affect different types of ecosystems? Answer these questions with a fill-in-the-blank worksheet. 
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