Curated OER
Classifying Life
For this classifying life worksheet, students review the 5 kingdoms of organisms by completing 10 matching and 7 fill in the blank questions.
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Seeing Green Crossword Puzzle
In this seeing green activity activity, students use the 25 clues and word bank to identify the words needed to complete the crossword puzzle.
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Animal Coverings
Students categorize animals by their coverings. They list descriptive words, explore a science center with actual animal coverings, match pictures of animals with coverings, and categorize pictures of animals by their coverings on a...
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Animals
In this animals worksheet, learners guess the animals described with has got or hasn't got, complete questions, choose the correct animal, and more. Students complete 5 activities total.
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Hide & Seek Butterflies
Students examine a variety of butterflies and discuss how they believe they get their color variations. In groups, they brainstorm the advantages and disadvantages of their color schemes. To end the lesson, they watch butterflies in...
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Tucson Children's Museum Dino Crossword
In this crossword puzzle, learners complete a crossword puzzle related to dinosaurs, the era in which dinosaurs lived, and about other animals that lived during that time period.
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Learning Activities: What Color Am I?
Pupils identify various species of anurans by their skin coloration. They describe how coloration contributes to survival.
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An Antidote to Plagiarism
Young scholars discover how to write a research paper without directly copying written material. They read a passage, then record on the board any words that are new for them. They define these words, then organize their facts to create...
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Reel in Learning with Reptiles
Whether it’s all about a Jackson Chameleon or a North American Bearded Lizard, learners will be eager to embark on informational text with reptiles.
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Learning Activities: Observing Using Sight
Students describe how diffusion occurs within a liquid. They explain a situation where diffusion through a liquid might occur in the natural world.
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Animal Coverings
Summary: Categorize animal pictures by their coverings. Show photographs of animals. Ask students to give descriptive words as to how they think the animal's covering would feel if they could actually touch it.
Curated OER
Waterfowl Word Search
In this science worksheet, young scholars find the names of 14 waterfowl in a word search puzzle. The word bank has a detailed color drawing of each bird.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Frog and Toad
This excellent resource from the San Diego Zoo presents extensive information on frogs and toads including details about their habitat, physical characteristics, size, diet, family life, conservation status, and fun facts. Audio clip...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Frogs and Toads
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Frogs and toads are amphibians in the order Anura. In terms of classification, there is actually not a big difference between frogs and toads. Learn more about frogs...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 10.9 Frogs and Toads
Understand the behaviors and characteristics of frogs and toads.
PBS
Pbs Nature: Frogs and Toads
Do you know how to tell the difference between a frog and a toad? This site provides interesting facts and information about this type of amphibian from where they live to what they eat and more.
Oakland Zoo
Oakland Zoo: Panamanian Golden Frog
Meet the Panamanian Golden Frog and discover fascinating facts and statistics. Learn about its physical characteristics, habitat, diet, behavior, breeding patterns, conservation, and more.
Oakland Zoo
Oakland Zoo: Amazon Milk Tree Frog
Meet the Amazon Milk Frog and discover fascinating facts and statistics. Learn about its physical characteristics, habitat, diet, behavior, breeding patterns, conservation, and more.
Oakland Zoo
Oakland Zoo: Golden Mantella Frog
Meet the golden mantella frog and discover fascinating facts and statistics. Learn about its physical characteristics, habitat, diet, behavior, breeding patterns, conservation, and more.
National Wildlife Federation
National Wildlife Federation: Shining a Light on Glass Frogs
Article about naturalist Brian Kubicki and his long-term study of glass frogs and other amphibians in Costa Rica.
Oakland Zoo
Oakland Zoo: Poison Dart Frogs
Meet the poison dart frog and discover fascinating facts and statistics. Learn about its physical characteristics, habitat, diet, behavior, breeding patterns, conservation, and more.
PBS
Pbs: Nature: Frogs: The Thin Green Line
PBS documentary explores threats to the continuing survival of frogs at locations around the world owing to habitat loss, pollution, and a fungus called chytrid now known to be responsible for killing large numbers of amphibians. [50:31]
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Frogs
The Exploratorium museum in San Francisco provides this exhibit companion site that features information about frogs including their habitats, characteristics, calls, and much more. Instructions are included for making a rain stick.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: The Amazing Adaptable Frog
Journey back over a million years ago and see how the common frog has adapted and changed.