Students demonstrate how to participate in a cooperative group. For this philanthropy lesson, students create drawings by working together as a group and contributing their thoughts and feelings.

Students research information on bats while working in cooperative groups. They design posters with the information from their research.

Students examine how researchers study dolphins and whales. In this scientific research lesson, students complete a Web-based interactive lesson focused on showing how researchers study aquatic mammals. A worksheet and web resources are...

Students practice galloping. In this gross motor skills lesson, students review how to jump and hop using a jump-rope and hopscotch. The teacher shows the steps to gallop and they hold a noodle and pretend as if they are riding a...

Young scholars review the information they gathered on different websites to write a poem about spiders. They use other websites to gain more information if needed. They share their poem with the class.

In this Ranger Rick instructional activity, students observe birds in nature, draw them, make up names for them, and note their real names.

Students explore abiotic factors that affect habitats. After a class lecture, students work in groups to answer questions about plant tissue, production and growth. They share answers, complete a crossword puzzle, and create a habitat...

Third graders research turtles and the ways they have adapted to their marine environment. They work in groups and publish their findings using SiteMaker a web-authoring tool.

Young scholars read tide tables for Waquoit Bay as the simulate determining the best time to go clam digging for a Wampanoag clambake. They graph the tide tables while realizing that the tides a Waquoit Bay are one hour later than those...

Eighth graders use the Internet to conduct research on the Lewis and Clark journals and work cooperatively in planning and delivering a presentation.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Just about all human behaviors are learned. Learned behavior is behavior that occurs only after experience or practice. Learned behavior has an advantage over innate...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduces learned behaviors and the different methods of learning.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Many animal behaviors are ways that animals act naturally. They are not learned behaviors. Cats are natural-born hunters. They don't need to learn how to hunt....

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Why is animal communication important? Without it, animals would not be able to live together in groups. Animals that live in groups with other members of their...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Many animal behaviors change in a regular way. They go through cycles. Some cycles of behavior repeat each year. Other cycles of behavior repeat every day. Learn...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes types of behavior that animals can learn.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Some of the most important animal behaviors involve mating. Mating is the pairing of an adult male and female to produce young. Adults that are most successful at...

Understand different types of learned behavior among animals and humans.

In this extremely detailed unit, students will learn the about innate and learned characteristics in animals and humans through a series of teacher and student-led discussions, readings, reflections, learning activities, and...

Students can watch vivid pictures change before their eyes, from lions to monkeys to dolphins. Authors provide interactive games that aid in learning the behavior of animals. Continue to explore by investigating the habitat, diet, and...

This lesson can be part of a two-week integrated thematic unit on nocturnal animals. During this lesson, students will be introduced to nocturnal animals. They will have an opportunity to navigate web sites to learn more about nocturnal...

Learn all about the study of animals--zoology through this interactive website. You will learn about the processes that make animals alive, what makes them endangered or extinct, and the tree of life.

In this interactive lesson, students learn that animals take care of their young in many of the same ways the adults in their lives take care of them.

In this interactive lesson, learners learn that animals take care of their young in many of the same ways the adults in their lives take care of them. Students watch videos from NATURE and engage in a variety of activities to check...