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Forest Food Chains and Webs

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore forest ecological systems. In this ecology lesson, students classify forest plants and animals according to their ecological roles. Students play a related vocabulary guessing game.  Students choose a card on which a...
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Who Takes Care of the Maya Forest Corridor?

For Teachers 1st
First graders study the animals in the Maya Forest Reserve. In this conservation instructional activity, 1st graders create a graph to compare the environment of animals to their own. They design a 3D model of these two environments.
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Exploring Forest Objects

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the forest. In this ecosystems lesson, students rotate through sensory activity centers, brainstorm, and read about temperate forests.
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Forests Need People

For Teachers 3rd
In this forests and people lesson, 3rd graders brainstorm what forests are used for, discuss forest habitats, and how human interventions have affected trees and animals that depend on the forest environment. Students read the books,...
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Forest Foundation

Forests, Carbon & Our Climate

For Teachers 4th - 6th
To conclude their examination of forest ecosystems, class members consider the role forests play in the carbon cycle and how forests can offset climate change.
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Interactive
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A Forest Dwellers Quiz

For Students 4th - 6th
In this forest animals learning exercise, students complete a four question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz. Included are questions about: wild boar, roe deer, red fox and red deer.
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Color Me: African Animals

For Teachers 4th - 7th
For this color me worksheet, students color and illustrate four unique forest animals: black-backed jackal, leopard, cape hunting dog and lion.
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Tropical Forest Food Chain

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners explore the interdependence of the animals and plants in tropical rainforests. They explore the importance of conserving biodiversity and tropical food chains. They create a tropical forest food chain and identify species that...
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My Forest or the Rainforest?

For Teachers K
Students explore the flora and fauna of temperate forests and rainforests. They examine the environmental conditions that allow certain plants and animals to live in the rainforest.
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The Rainforest: South America

For Teachers K - 1st
What can one expect to see in the South American rainforest? Find out where humans sleep, what animals they encounter, what kind of plants they'll see, and what dangers lurk in the tall grasses and dense forests. This is a simple and...
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Hey - It's a Rainy Forest Out There!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Elementary schoolers take part in a very good lesson which has them watch video, conduct experiments, complete hands-on activities, and work in cooperative groups. The educationally-rich activities are clearly-explained, and the group...
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Rainforest (Elementary, Social Studies)

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Explore the rainforest with your class. Learners study the meaning of the word endangered, choose an animal to study, gather data, and discuss why the animal is in danger of extinction. This is a motivating way to have your class discuss...
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Worksheet
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Rain Forest Animals Crossword

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science and language arts worksheet, learners complete a 16 word crossword puzzle about rain forest animals. Each clue is a hint to identify an animal of the rain forest. There is no word bank. Answers are provided on page 2.
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Our Earth: Challenge Activities (Theme 8)

For Teachers 1st
This packet, the first in the series of support materials for the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on our earth, contains enrichment activities for learners who have mastered the basic concepts of the lessons. Kids create a...
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Worksheet
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Rain Forest Animals Word Cards

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this rain forest animal cards worksheet, students study and cut apart 28 word cards, all pertaining to the rain forest animals.
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Help Bob Bat Find a Path

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this Bob Bat worksheet, young scholars will help Bob find a new home by linking "natural" words through a maze of man made words, such as umbrella and litter.
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Worksheet
Compassion in World Farming Trust

Selective Breeding of Farm Animals

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
Biology learners read about selective breeding in chickens and how it has produced high-yield meat specimens and rapid egg-layers. The unpleasant effects of artificial selection are explored, as well as options to supporting this...
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Forest Food Webs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars consider the interdependency of life in a temperate forest by studying selected organisms from an Asian temperate forest and creating a food web.
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Forest Ecosystem

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students become familiar with the temperate rainforest.  In this forest ecosystem instructional activity, students identify the producers, consumers and decomposers in the forest ecosystem.  Students sort cards and identify the trophic...
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The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter

For Students 9th - 12th
For this literature worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about Richter's A Light in the Forest. Students may also link to an online interactive quiz on the novel at the bottom of the page.
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Forest Habitat Fragmentation

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders discuss the loss of animal habitats and the importance of refuge areas for them. They collect small pictures of animals found in their state and glue them to an outline of their state according to their range. Finally,...
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Boom and Bust in the Ozark Forests

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Here is a hard-hitting, cross-curricular lesson on the effects that the deforestation of the Ozark forests in the 19th century had on the people, animals, and ecosystems of the area. The Dr. Seuss book The Lorax is used as a way of...
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Animals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
What kinds of animals live in Spanish-speaking countries? Do they live in the zoo, the garden, or the sea? Discuss animals with your young, experienced Spanish speakers. Then use photos to practice describing where certain animals live....
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Plants and Animals

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders discover the interconnectedness of plants and animals in ecosystems. In groups, they create a food web and discuss the problems when one link of the chain is broken. To end the lesson, they set up a balanced environment...

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