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English Club

English Club: Vocabulary: Cloze Games: Animals Cloze 8

For Students 6th - 8th
Choose from a word bank to complete ten sentences about animal habitats. Hints are available if needed, and a percentage score is displayed once answers are submitted.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: All About Lizards Lesson Plan

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Students explore the diversity of lizards in terms of characteristics, behavior, and habitat. Activities feature five species of lizards and their special body structures needed for survival.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Living Things and Their Needs Teacher's Guide

For Teachers K - 1st
This is a free downloadable teacher's guide (PDF) to teach young children (grades K-2) about living things and their needs.
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New York Times

New York Times: Scribd: Living Things Cause Changes on Earth Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This detailed lesson plan will have the students researching why and how animals make changes to the Earth. Students will discover that animals make changes on Earth for various reasons such as shelter, protection from predators, and...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Where Do Animals Live?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson plan learners listen and participate by filling in missing words as the teacher reads a silly poem about places where animals might live. Students are required to draw pictures representing both their favorite nonsense...
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Crayola

Crayola: Counting 'Til the Pigs Come Home (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A fun lesson plan for younger students incorporating art, math, and writing. Student create their own counting stories, and illustrate them. Also provides resources and adaptations. (To access this lesson plan, you must register with...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Forest Elephants

For Students 9th - 10th
Although the rainforest is a demanding environment for a cameraman, photographer Martyn Colbeck manages to capture a glimpse of forest elephants in the Congo in this video segment from Nature.
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Other

Canadian Arctic Profiles

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed sections providing further information on the Canadian Arctic's exploration, climate, maps, migration, and indigenous people, make this resource useful for many topics. Put together with images, this resource is useful for high...
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PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Habitat

For Students 3rd - 5th
What do you need to survive? Food, water, shelter? Animals need the same things and they live in places that can provide them. This informative site looks at the characteristics, range, habitat, food, reproduction and behavior of the red...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Grassland Elephants

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from Nature features a greeting ceremony by grassland elephants in Kenya.
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The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: K Ess3 1: Environmental Relationships

For Teachers K - 1st
This NSTA vetted source includes resources to teach about the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals and the places they live. Included are assessment ideas, videos, examples, lesson plans, and photos of student...
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The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: K Ess2 2: Environmental Change

For Teachers K - 1st
This NSTA vetted source includes resources to teach how plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs. Included are assessment ideas, videos, examples, lesson plans, and photos of student work.
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PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Coloration

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This competent site describes how structural adaptations help organisms survive. Deceptive and advertising coloration are explained.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Where Do They Live?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains an introduction page through which teachers can discuss what all living things need. On subsequent pages students will decide which animal does not belong in the habitat shown.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: The New Zoos: Polar Bear Picnic

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore zoos and the change in animal care, and research the physiology and habitats of polar bears. Investigate the difference between what is essential to survive and what is desirable in an enriched environment.
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PBS

Pbs: Nature: Animals and People: Who's Behaving Badly?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore the great variety of animal behaviors by observing them in their natural habitats, and examine the relationship between people, animals and the environment.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Understanding Ecosystems: Adaptations 3 of 4

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will understand how animal and plant adaptations help them to survive in their ecosystem. Web links will allow students to play games and learn more about adaptations.
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Read Works

Read Works: A Day at the Zoo

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a young woman named Zoe who works with animal habitats at the zoo. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Other

Switch Zoo: Where Do I Live?

For Students 3rd - 8th
In these games, you will move the animals who live in Switch Zoo to their original home continent or ocean.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Habitats

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A 2nd grade unit on animal environments and habitats. Include web links for information on different land and water habitats, as well as a lesson on food chains.
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Internet Island: Enadangered Species Project

For Students 6th - 8th
GREAT SITE! Various links to the endangered species of Hawaii. You will learn that some of Hawaii's animals are barely hanging on by a thread.
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National Wildlife Federation

National Wildlife Federation: Ranger Rick

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is a very fun and engaging resource for kids and teachers. Students can learn about wildlife and ecology while reading stories and articles, playing games, and doing activities.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Plum's Creature Connector

For Students K - 1st
This PBS Kids activity is an extension of a Plum Landing episode featuring food webs. Students will learn basic information about how animals are interdependent. Students will help different animals survive in their different habitats
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Proficient Puppeteers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students create puppets for the characters in a Reader's Theater script called 'Georgia State Animals & Plants: Habitats and Adaptations.' The puppets showcase the adaptations for each plant or animal. Students then...

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