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Bat Ecology

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students, through hands on games and activities, discover how bats live and how bats benefit ecosystems. They play a game designed to show them how echolocation works and another to show how mother bats locate their young through their...
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Human Inventions with Animal Features

For Students 7th - 10th
In this animal features worksheet, students match different animal features with the human invention that is similar. Students match 9 inventions and then complete 3 short answer questions.
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Fact or Opinion: Animals

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
How many legs do spiders have? Is that an opinion, or is it a fact? Complete a worksheet with four sets of five questions about different animals and their attributes, noting whether each statement is a fact or an opinion.
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Desert Drama

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students read both fiction and nonfiction books with desert themes. Then they write desert stories and reports, reviewing texts for information to include in writing. Students also design desert scenes with details and setting elements...
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Witches Brew

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students reinforce AB patterns taught in the classroom and practice locomotor movements. They cut out and laminate 20 of each of the following Halloween items: bats, ghosts, Frankenstein faces, spiders, Jack-O¿¿¿-Lanterns, witches...
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Handprint Ghosts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create handprint ghosts using construction paper, paints, crayons, paper plates, and paper towels in this Art instructional activity for the early-elementary classroom. An ideal craft activity for the classroom before the...
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Halloween

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th Standards
Build vocabulary and get in the Halloween sprit with a collection of festive activities! Here, scholars take part in a holiday celebration, unearth the unknown in mystery feel-boxes, and create monster masks out of paper plates. 
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Bio-Benefits

For Students 6th - 12th
Kick-start a discussion of the importance of biodiversity with a colorful resource that touts the benefits of maintaining healthy ecosystems. The images stress the interdependence of all the elements of an ecosystem.
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Monoprint Screams on Clay

For Teachers K - 6th
Using a famous painting as a model, have your class create their own works of art. Learners take a look at the painting "The Scream" by Edvard Munch, discuss their thoughts on it, and use a similar process to design their own art. What a...
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Short Poems Are Scary!

For Teachers K - 5th
What do all those chairs and pencils do in the classroom once everyone leaves? Allow imaginations to run wild with frighteningly short poems!
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Things That Don't Belong

For Students K - 1st
For this sorting and classifying objects worksheet, students identify the pictures that do not belong with the Halloween pictures. Students find 2 pictures that do not belong. 
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Mouse...Mouse...Snake!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Use this activity as an anticipatory set to warm up for a lesson plan on predator/prey relationships. Pupils will play a round of "Duck, Duck, Goose," substituting the ducks and geese for two animals that have a predator/prey...
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a play to work on seeing events from a different perspective. Some of them are reporters, some cameramen and women, and others are interviewed. They put themselves in the shoes of the people in the book...
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Arthur's Halloween

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read a story and respond.  In this caring and helping others lesson, students read Arthur's Halloween making predictions as they go.  Students write a report on caring, create a caring journal where they record how they have...
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Problem Solving

For Teachers K - 1st
Students participate in completing various locomotor skills. In this physical education/literacy lesson, students explore the gym searching for Halloween items to return back to their "home". Additionally, students must be engaged in the...
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Halloween More Than One

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this Halloween activity worksheet, students study the Halloween images in each box and then circle the correct plural form for each noun. Students complete 6 plural noun examples.
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Halloween

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Halloween worksheet, students listen to a song and story about Halloween, complete a word search, answer true or false questions, and more. Students complete 6 activities.
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Night Hike

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Students explore Upham Woods at night and investigate about the special adaptations of nocturnal animals. They identify three nocturnal animals and how they are adapted to the night. Students explain what night vision is and how it works.
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Haunted House

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students partake in a fun and active Halloween activity.
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Monsters of the Deep

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students describe major features of cold seep communities, and list at least five organisms typical of these communities. They infer probable trophic relationships among organisms typical of cold-seep communities.
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Halloween

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students explore the history of Halloween and what people do at Halloween. Also, the compare Halloween with Lantern Festival and Ghosts' Day in Taiwan.
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A Tree of Life Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students solve a mystery of the identification of a unknown organism by comparing its morphological characteristics to those in a tree of life classification poster. They compare the observable characteristics of the specimen and...
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Halloween Word Search

For Students 6th - 8th
In this holiday worksheet, students find the words that are related to the topic of Halloween and the answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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I Want To Know More...

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this animal research learning exercise, students choose an animal they want to learn more about and then research the answers to twelve questions about the animal of their choice.