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Animals Around Us

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners view and discuss a Discovery Channel video that compares the animals found in four different habitats. They compare and contrast the characteristics of forests, deserts, wetlands and grasslands then choose one to depict in a...
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Creative Calendars

For Teachers K - 8th
Students review information they have learned on an animal or habitat. After conducting a specific animal or habitat unit, they create a calendar as a culminating project.
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Plants and Animals

For Teachers K - 1st
Students find common needs between plants and animals. In this plants and animals instructional activity students compare that both plants and animals need food and water. They also find the differences between plant and animal needs.
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National Wildlife Federation

Fill the Bill

For Teachers K - 8th Standards
The structure of a bird's beak lends itself to specific functions. Using an assortment of everyday objects, learners mimic the behaviors of bird beaks. They learn about the habits of different birds by studying their beaks.
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Who Lives Here?

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this animal habitat worksheet, students look at 6 pictures of different animal habitats and write the animal that belongs to each one. Pictures include a nest, a fish tank, a crate, and more.
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California Academy of Science

Coral Reef Habitat Match

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Different animals live in different habitats, and each animal has specifically adaptive traits that make them tailor-made for their environments. This is true on land and in the ocean. Little ones examine how various marine animals have...
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Indian Land Tenure Foundation

Respect for Land

For Teachers K - 2nd
Youngsters examine how people show respect and care for the land. Specifically, learners see how the Native Americans truly did care for and respect the land, and still do so to this day! They also explore how they themselves can care...
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Where is Shirley the Elephant?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young animal lovers engage in a lesson plan that's all about elephants. They access an elephant sanctuary website and read a story about Shirley the elephant. They perform a series of activities based upon that story, and also study...
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Bears

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of bear-related activities. They sort and graph teddy bears, distinguish between real and non-real bears and research bear life cycles and habitats.
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I Am An Animal: Where Do I Live?

For Teachers K - 4th
Students make an alphabet booklet using the computer to find pictures and facts about farm animals, zoo animals and pets. They write facts about the animals: where they live, what they eat, their coloring, etc.
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My Happy Habitat

For Teachers K - 1st
Students observe and discuss the Idaho state quarter to begin an activity in which they define and draw different types of habitats. They discuss the habitats that the migrating Peregrine falcon, which appears on the Idaho quarter,...
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Pet Overpopulation

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils identify ways animal shelters prevent pet overpopulation. In this animal welfare lesson, students review facts about pet overpopulation and consult a phone directory for animal welfare listings. Pupils call and ask questions to an...
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Dull Duck, Dashing Duck

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners learn about animal camouflage.  In this animal adaptations lesson, students discuss the patterns and adaptations animals use to help them survive, discuss the uses of camouflage, visit a local wetland if possible, and design...
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Investigating Local Ecosystems

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate the habitats of local plants and animals. They explore some of the ways animals depend on plants and each other. Students observe living organisms in a local ecosystem and create detailed drawings and descriptions...
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Force of Habitat

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine the Nevada state quarter and discuss the Great Basin and the desert habitat. They draw a desert animal and write a sentence about its attributes and how they help the animal to survive in its habitat.
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Living in a Tree

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore animals that live in trees. For this nature and biology lesson, students go outdoors and make observations about animals and their unique body parts that help them to live in trees. Students create drawings as they...
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Fish Fashion 101

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners explore fish anatomy. In this fish anatomy and adaptation instructional activity, students define and identify the location of fish body parts. Learners add these parts of a fish's anatomy to a life-sized fish costume worn by a...
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Who lives with Mallard?

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars explore how all living things have needs that are obtained from their surroundings. They identify the surroundings where an animal or plant lives is its habitat. Students identify that a habitat is a community of living...
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Different Environments

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students read literature selection, discuss habitat, divide habitats into different categories such as water, soil, and land, list animals that live in each habitat, and describe habitats using descriptive words in vocabulary list.
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Water: H2O = Life

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
In this earth science worksheet, students explore and describe animals and their adaptations, including their habitats, physical characteristics, and competing organisms. They also explore and describe how others use water around the...
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Forest Life- Wood Bug Study

For Teachers K - 7th
Examine wood bugs and their habitat. Learners gather wood bugs and examine their bodies. Then discuss their body parts and how they help them survive. They also predict where they think wood bugs live to then graph the class results.
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Know It All: Seals! Teaching Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students discover information about seals, including behavior and habitat. In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify various aspects about seals. Students create an illustration or painting of their favorite seal, and...
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Animal Adaptation

For Teachers K - 5th
Students begin the lesson plan by observing animals in their natural habitat. Using the internet, they research the types of adaptations they have gone through to be able to live comfortably in their environment. They observe what they...
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A Day in a Life of an Arctic/Antarctic Animal

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students, through video segments, explore what types of animals live in the Arctic and Antarctica. They also clear up any misconceptions they have about penguins or polar bears.

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