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Hibernating Hoopla

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students simulate hibernation with their stuffed animals. They predict the length of time of hibernation and type their math journal entries about sorting, graphing and draw pictures. They read bear hibernation stories.
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Who Hibernates?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this hibernation worksheet, students cut out the pictures of the animals at the bottom of the page and paste them into the squares to represent which hibernates and which doesn't.
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How Animals Prepare for the Winter

For Teachers K
Students study animals. In this hibernation lesson, students are read Stranger in the Woods and they discuss what various animals do in their habitat during the winter. They work as a class to create their own hibernation environment...
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Winter

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the concept of hibernation. In this winter lesson, students read Time to Sleep by Denise Fleming and discuss the content of the story. Students participate in classroom activities that require them to develop their...
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How Animals Prepare for Winter

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study which animal hibernate and which migrate. They observe the weather conditions related to each and complete the associated worksheets and web activity.
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A Long Winter's Nap

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore the process of estivation, hibernation and torpor and the ways that frogs adapt to seasonal weather changes.
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Exploring Animal Habitats: Winter Changes

For Teachers K
Students explore animals during the winter months. They discuss the changes that animals make during winter in order to survive. Students discuss migration, hibernation, and staying active during winter months. Students create various...
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Bears/Hibernation

For Teachers K
Students study the hibernation process of bears through the making of a bear's cave.
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Behavior Adaptations

For Students 9th - 12th
For this behavior worksheet, students review different types of behavioral adaptations including migration, hibernation, and communication. This worksheet has 10 matching and 10 true or false questions.
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Animals In Winter

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read story Animals in Winter, and explore similarities and differences in how humans and other animals prepare for survival in winter. Students create class book that compares and illustrates different ways humans and animals...
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Taiga

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this taiga worksheet, learners read a short article describing what a taiga is and then answer 10 multiple choice, true or false or short answer questions relating to the article.
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Seasons in the Woods

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
Winter in the cold Northwoods of Wisconsin can be hard on animals that aren't adapted to the climate. Investigate the animals that are out and about even in the coldest winter temperatures as you and your class examine animal...
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Science: Why Animals Hibernate

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the reasons animals hibernate. They measure their own heart rates and compare them to those of a hibernating bear. In their journals, 2nd graders record facts about and characteristics of hibernation and...
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Scholastic

Groundhog Day

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th Standards
A simple activity for a simple, but special, holiday. Young learners read a brief history of Groundhog Day, practice reading aloud, and then discuss how shadows are formed.
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Core Knowledge Foundation

A Time for All Seasons - Spring

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Celebrate the arrival of spring with this fun primary grade science unit. Engaging young scientists with a variety of hands-on activities and inquiry-based investigations, these lessons are a great way to teach children about seasonal...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

A Time for All Seasons - Winter

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
As the days get shorter and a chill enters the air, it's time to start teaching your little ones about the wondrous winter season. Through a series of teacher demonstrations, whole-class read alouds and discussions, and hands-on...
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Scholastic

Will He See His Shadow? Groundhog Day Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th Standards
What a fantastic collection of activities for celebrating Groundhog Day! This resource includes a variety of holiday reading selections, groundhog facts, links to printables, story comprehension lessons, and much more!
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Cooperative Learning, Sci., Tech., Lang

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research, write, edit, revise and present a paragraph, using word processor, about animal of their choice, including description, where animal lives, what it eats, its habits, e.g. is it endangered, migration, hibernation,...
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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Weather Watch Activity Guide: Groundhog Day

For Teachers K - 8th Standards
Exactly what do groundhogs know about weather? Not as much as your science students will after completing these lessons and activities that cover everything from the earth's rotation and the creation of shadows, to cloud...
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Animal Environments

For Students 4th - 6th
In this science worksheet, students match 15 terms about animals and the environment with the definitions or descriptions. Answers are included.
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Climate Types

For Students 9th - 12th
In this climate instructional activity, students review how animals deal with different climate types and list the six climate groups in the Köppen Climate Classification System. This instructional activity has 11 fill-in-the-blank...
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Reading Research!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students observe the pictures in non-fiction books that focus on animals in the winter. In addition, they also listed to some read aloud books about hibernation, migration, adaptation and dormancy. Students draw pictures and write notes...
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Worksheet
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Brown Bear Story Starter

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this writing worksheet, learners read a story starter about a brown bear who has just been awakened from hibernation. Students generate the rest of the story and draw a picture.
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Deer Yard Investigation

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study the survival strategies of deer during the winter. They investigate the resistance behavior of white tailed deer to winter conditions after discussing migration, hibernation, and resistance as survival techniques. They...

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