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Hyena: an Edward Morgan Poem
Young scholars read, listen to and analyze the poem The Hyena by Edward Morgan.  In this poetry techniques lesson plan, students explore the visual images of animals and their unpleasant traits. Young scholars answer questions about the...
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Be an Artist: Spotted Hyena
In this science worksheet, 3rd graders will use visual clues in a grid to complete an exact image replica. Following the original line segments in each box, students will create the image of a spotted hyena.
CK-12 Foundation
Symbiosis: Mutualism, Commensalism, and Parasitism
Hyenas normally hunt alone, however scientists discovered that in Israel, hyenas hunt with wolf packs. When relationships develop between different species, we call it symbiosis. The videos teach about the three types of symbiosis and an...
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African Animals A-Z
African animals A-Z are on parade in this activity, which provides teachers with a year's worth of coloring and spelling sheets for little writers. Popular animals, such as dolphins and elephants, have their own coloring pages, as well...
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Picture Scramble
For this picture scramble worksheet, young scholars place scrambled pieces of a picture in the correct place to create a full picture of a bullfrog, a pelican and a striped hyena. There are nine scrambled pieces for each of the three...
PreKinders
On Safari
What kinds of animals would you see on safari? Hop in your jeep and watch this presentation, which is full of pictures of safari animals such as elephants, lions, and zebras. Each slide starts with the same line for kids to read, making...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Grandfather's Journey (Say)
Read Allen Say's classic tale Grandfather's Journey as scholars expand their vocabulary in context (note: this strategy could be done with any text). Wondering what words they will learn here? Although you could easily include more,...
ARKive
Sizing Up Species: Measurement Activities
Measurement devices can be used to determine the height, length, or weight of all kinds of things, even plants and animals. This presentation acts as the basis for two estimation activities. Each activity requires the children to...
Alliance Theater
The Jungle Book Post-Show STEAM Lesson
An ecosystem is really just the flow of energy through many different living organisms. A study of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book leads to an environmental science activity in which learners study how various factors can affect...
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Zebras
In this proof reading worksheet, 3rd graders read five sentences about zebras. They identify the ten errors in the sentences. Errors include capitalization, punctuation, spelling and grammar.
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Animals in the Media
Sure to activate young minds, this resource asks learners to consider how media influences their personal points of view. Pupils examine how animals are portrayed in the media to understand why they feel the way they do about those...
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African Pride- Reading Comprehension
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a speech which the President of South Africa delivered. Students answer questions, and write an essay.
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab
In this vocabulary worksheet, students determine the best choice from the word bank to complete the sentence. The challenging words all begin with the letter "H."
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Worksheet 3/7 A Gaggle of Collective Nouns
Encourage your class to identify the correct usage of collective nouns in sentences with this activity. Given three choices, with the collective nouns circled in each possible choice, class members choose the sentence in which the...
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Word Family Jamboree
Students explore rhyming words, beginning and ending sounds. In this word family instructional activity, students identify beginning and ending sounds. Students draw pictures of words and use phonetic spellings to write stories. Students...
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Savannah
In this Savannah worksheet, learners unscramble 12 words related to the Savannah. Examples include elephant, dry, zebra, and rainy season.
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Dinner at the Panda Palace Activity Card
In this counting worksheet, students will work with a parent to read the story Dinner at the Panda Palace and count the different animals on each page.
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Nouns Search
In this nouns worksheet, students read ten sentences and underline the nouns in alphabetical order in each sentence. Students study the first one done for them.
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Wild Animals 1 - Reading
In this wild animals worksheet, students read the terms, name the animals, complete a word search, and more. Students complete 5 activities.
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Fairy Tale Anagrams
What a creative way to review concepts related to fairy tales. Learners unscramble anagrams to identify popular fairy tales like Beauty and the Beast. This is motivating way review this topic. Also, it could be used with a variety of...
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Spelling Quiz: Animals
In this spelling instructional activity, 4th graders interactively choose the correct spelling of an animal name, with immediate online feedback.
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Hominid Diet
Learners listen to an interview with Lucinda Backwell regarding fossil evidence that early hominids included termites in their diets. They participate in a discussion to investigate the significance of these findings.
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Africa Savanna
Students discuss the different biomes of Africa. They create a list of biomes of Africa. They color code a map of the biomes of Africa. They research interesting facts about Africa.
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Lions at Lunchtime
In this lion shaped word search instructional activity, students find and mark 15 words in a puzzle. The words pertain to the book Lions at Lunchtime.