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What makes up YOUR Environment!
Students create their own land or water environment. They make their environment livable for all the different animals they collect to put in it. Students research the types of animals that they can have in their environment, and how...
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Answering the Call of the Wild
Students explore wildlife conservation by investigating the reintroduction of species into their natural habitats and species near extinction. They create a poster and a position paper that explains the importance of preserving this...
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Hawaiian Natives Disappear
Young scholars explore parts of the Hawaiian Islands to get a examine the exotic invasion, and see what challenges the natives face in reclaiming their territory. They identify the changes in the environment that have been the hardest on...
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Animal Reports
Third graders choose an animal to research and write a report about. They determine the animals' habitat, animal classification, whether it is endangered or extinct, and the type of food it eats. Also, they add any special...
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The Salamander Room
Students examine how each animal's habitat provides what that animal needs for survival. They discuss what an animal needs to survive-food, shelter, water, and space.
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The Great American Alligator
In this alligator worksheet, students read a short essay describing the natural history of this reptile. Then students complete 3 fill in the blank and 3 short answer questions.
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Coral Reefs Endangered
Students research where in the world coral reefs are located. In this ecology lesson, students create food chains and food web. They simulate growing coral reefs to understand their characteristics better.
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Rainforest Animal Illustrations
Fourth graders discover what is meant by the term endangered species. After reading a book, they use a document camera to view pictures of each endangered species mentioned. In groups, they are assigned one animal by their teacher and...
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Food for Thought
Students understand the importance of each member of a food chain through a game. In this food chains lesson, students receive background information and then play a game to simulate what happens in the food chain of an endangered...
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Animal Camouflage
Students investigate how animals adapt to their environment. In this animal science lesson, students participate in an experiment using patterned paper and plain paper to simulate how animals blend into their surroundings. Students...
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Ocean Life Zones
In this ocean worksheet, students answer questions about ocean life, the plants and animals of the ocean and their classification, the major life zones of the ocean and questions about an animal of their choice that lives in the ocean.
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Elephants
In this elephants worksheet, students read a 2 page article on the history of elephants, answer 3 questions with multiple choice answers, list the 3 reasons for animals becoming endangered and answer 6 statements as true or false.
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Biodiversity
Students match certain animals with a possible fate that could happen to them from a provided list in order to discover the threats to biodiversity and the role humans play. They also discover the importance of biodiversity and what we...
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Turtle and Tortoise Preschool Lesson Plan
One of the best parts about teaching the littlest learners is that you can create thematic lessons that use one topic to address every subject. Here is a nice set of thematic teaching ideas that uses turtles and tortoises to teach...
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Animal Behavior Word Search
In this animal behaviors word puzzle instructional activity, students examine the 16 adjectives and names in the word bank and locate them in the word search puzzle.
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Zoos and Captive Breeding
After reading pages 470-472 of an unspecified textbook, students compare statements about zoos and captive breeding to information presented in text for statements of truth. Students change statements that are false so that the...
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Blue Planet: Open Ocean
Students research facts about animal species. In this ocean activity students view a video, prepare illustrated cards and create a food-web display.
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Animal Behavior: Conditional If
In this conditional if practice worksheet, students use the conditional if in 10 sentences that define the 10 animal behavior terms listed.
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Math Mission
Second graders investigate the concept of Puerto Rican animals through using math word problems. They create a story to correlate with the word problems. The lesson also uses data of species counts to show increases and decreases for...
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Indicator Species
Learners explore the ecological foundation of India's and ways to save the forests, water and the India tiger. After a lecture on identifying a healthy forest and the importance of the animals, students participate in activities to...
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Earth Day
Students participate in activities that familiarize them with what Earth Day is, why it is important, and why it is a celebration.
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Natural Selection
Kids act as scientists and preditors in this short natural selection activity; they collect and analyze data, then apply their new knowledge to real-world examples of natural selection. The layout of the worksheet is easy enough to use...
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The Coelacanth aka 'The Living Fossil Fish'
In this online quiz worksheet, students answer a set of multiple choice questions about the Coelacanth, or Living Fossil Fish. Page has a link to answers.
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The Florida Manatee: Reading Comprehension
Five multiple choice questions test early readers on their understanding of a one-page passage on the Florida Manatee. Answers on page 3.