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The Intertidal Zone

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students research the diverse animal and plant life that inhabit the intertidal zones along the Pacific rocky coast. As students progress through this lesson plan, they begin to recognize distinct behaviors, adaptations, and...
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Safety and Injury Protection

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify safety rules for passengers and pedestrians and explore school bus safety. They also complete a picture illustrating a school bus safety rule, as well as, discuss bus behavior rules.
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Biomes: Freshwater & Seawater

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers observe organisms behavior and adaptations.  In this biomes lesson students conduct fieldwork to determine water quality and answer questions about the differences between different habitats. 
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Desert Animals

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate and identify a variety of animals that live in the desert. They complete a class KWL chart, then listen to the book Way Out in the Desert. Next, 1st graders observe a presentation of live desert animals, and...
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How to Speak Cat

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore feline communication. In this comprehension lesson, students discuss how to read animal body language. Students look at images of cats and decide what the animal is trying to say.
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SKULL DIVERSITY

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the similarities and differences of animal skulls.
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Naming Zoo Animals (In Navajo)

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners investigate zoo animals and name various zoo animals in Navajo. They take a field trip to the zoo, take digital pictures of various animals, conduct research, and name each animal in Navajo.
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Chicken Little

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Second graders listen to the story "Chicken Little" as it is read to the whole group while recognizing similarities in the character's names. They create another character to be added to the story using the same rhyming pattern and make...
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Graphing Real World Situations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students solve linear equations using graphs. In this algebra lesson, students depict real life situation using lines and functions. They identify the slope, data and predict graphing behavior.
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Whales, Whales, Whales!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
The title says it all! Help your pupils learn all about whales. Class members research different species of whales and share the information via video conferences with kids from another school. They conduct research on a selected species...
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Threatened, Endangered & Extinct Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine the basic needs of living organisms. In this science instructional activity, students study ecosystems and discover that organisms have basic needs that must be met.
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You Are What You Eat: Plastics and Marine Life

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars study the different types of plastics and see which ones sink or remain buoyant.  In this ocean environmental lesson plan students complete several handouts, and view a film on PBS.
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Butterfly Life Cycle

For Teachers K
Students read books about animals and describe their structures, how they grow and change, and their life cycles. In this animals lesson plan, students also make animals out of pasta.
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Creating and Restoring Health Forests

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore how to create and restore healthy forests. Given a scenario, teams of students create a management plan to assist the forest in becoming healthy, safe, and appealing. Students consider the ecosystem, adaptations of the...
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Finding Caterpillars

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars examine how animals protect themselves from predators and camouflage themselves. They participate in a simulation in which they locate red and green yarn "caterpillars," organize their data, and generate a bar graph using...
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What is Manga?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars research graphic novels. For this manga lesson, students work in small groups as the read graphic novels in literature circle format.
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Value: Love, Topic: Friendship

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders participate in a skit, "Henry Gets it Right." They discuss the skit and qualities of a friend. They discuss an example of a wild animal taking care of animals of a different species. They consider the behavior versus the...
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Pawing Around

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify common wildlife by investigating their footprints. They examine where and how to look for signs of animal activity. They create casts of animal tracks and gather information about the animal from the location it was found.
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Earthworm Movement and Landscape Structure

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students describe differences in animal usage of habitats depending upon successional status of site. They also design other experiments to test movement patterns of animals through habitats of differing structure.
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Adaptations To the Environment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars design and construct an imaginary animal that is perfectly adapted to a particular type of biome. They give the animal a scientific name, place it in a phylum and write descriptions about its behavior, reproduction,...
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Evolution Explorations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students compare characteristics of animals and human beings. In this biology instructional activity, students observe an animal and record their observations. They infer whether the evolution theory is true or not.
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Seashore Limitations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students demonstrate the movements and behaviors of creatures from different parts of the ocean.
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Sudan Surprise

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students consider animal migration patterns that have been recently documented in Sudan. They investigate the migratory patterns of animals and discuss how human conflicts and activities affect migratory wildlife populations.
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Endangered Species

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students conduct Internet research on endangered species. They select an endangered species, identify its physical and behavioral characteristics, and create a Powerpoint presentation.

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