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Oklahoma's Berry Best

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Ask your learners to complete activities related to Oklahoma's agriculture, berries in particular. The lesson is cross-curricular and has class members investigate an article about berries, write an acrostic poem, and discuss new...
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Make a Rain Stick

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a rain stick to imitate the nature sounds in a rainforest habitat. In this rainforest habitat lesson, students create a rain stick to mimic the cultural tools used in the South American rainforest. Students use paper...
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Destructive Decay

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students determine the destructive nature of plaque acid in their mouths. They use the scientific method for proving a hypothesis.
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This I Can Do!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students define rain forest and use rain forest-related vocabulary. They name flora and fauna that live in the rain forest. They define stewardship and explain the stewardship necessary to maintain a beautiful natural environment.
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Salmon and Steelhead Life Stories Web Search

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students conduct an Internet investigation to discover the natural history of local salmon and/or steelhead. They then write a story that describes the life of a salmon or steelhead from the local creek, including a description of each...
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Geography: I Spy Environments

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine nature paintings from a Utah museum for their physical characteristics. In small groups, they observe museum postcards and discuss the season, precipitation, temperature, and geometric shapes pictured. Focusing...
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The Invisible Zoo

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore how infrared images give biologists or zoologists detailed information on how warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals thermoregulate. They are introduced to infrared imaging technology and the information that such images...
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Taking an Animal Census Grades 3-8

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students comprehend the competitive, interdependent, cyclic nature of living things in an environment. They conduct an animal census in a designated research area over a six-month period to determine what types of species are present,...
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Tiger Coloring Page

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this endangered tiger coloring worksheet, students examine a black line drawing of a tiger. Students color the picture and draw its natural habitat around it.
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The Beach

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this natural environment worksheet, students cut out ways litter affects the beach environment. Students draw pictures in the boxes to match. Students then draw their favorite beach activity and list the things they can do at the beach.
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K12 Reader

Water Carves the Land

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
What affect do bodies of water have on the world around us? Kids can find out by reading this passage. After reading, they answer five questions related to the text.
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Taking Care of Earth

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Provide a brief introduction to ecology and conservation with a reading passage. Learners can read the text, answer the five related questions that are included on the page, and discuss the reading.
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Transparent Shoebox Dig

For Teachers K - 4th
Take this simulated archaeological dig one layer at a time with your young pupils to encourage observation, critical thinking, and careful attention. Using a transparent box full of layers of sand and artifacts, pupils examine the...
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Endangered Species

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Your learners have likely heard about animals going extinct. By reading this passage, they can find out some reasons why this happens and how to protect endangered species. After reading, individuals respond to five related questions.
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Cloud Clues

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
It's cloudy with a good chance of learning! An inquiry-based lesson begins with an exploration of transparent, translucent, and opaque materials. Young scientists then connect their learning to the different cloud types as they take the...
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Have to Have a Habitat

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students create a zoological and botanical garden made up of a variety of species from around the world.
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A Giraffe Debate

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study the life, adaptations, and habitats of giraffes. They investigate the issue of giraffe survival in the wild or in a wildlife sanctuary. They conduct a class debate and present position papers.
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Ugly? Says Who?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore biology by writing animal poetry in class. In this animal characteristics lesson, students research the Internet for facts about an "ugly" animal such as a bug or small critter. Students complete worksheets about animal...
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The Forest-Life in the Wild!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students write a description of each animal using their completed outline and include a graphic of the animal for the program, or a hand drawing. Each student chooses and writes about 2 Rain Forest Animals.
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Reading Comprehension Worksheet: Compounds & Elements

For Students 4th - 5th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read several short paragraphs about compounds and elements and then answer several questions about the text.
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Characteristics of Snakes and Turtles

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students compare and contrast snakes and turtles, then fill out an information sheet.
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Kids Astronomy

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this astronomy word scramble worksheet, students examine the 16 letter groupings and use the decoder to help them reveal the 16 astronomy terms listed at the bottom of the worksheet,
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The Raven: Creator of the Universe?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore biology by researching birds in class. In this raven identification lesson, students utilize the Internet to identify the anatomy, habits and habitat of ravens. Students write descriptive paragraphs about ravens and read...
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The Water Cycle

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners access prior knowledge of the water cycle by completing a KWL. In this water cycle instructional activity, students follow the movement of water through the water cycle.

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