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Relationships Among Living Things

For Students 7th - 9th
In this relationships among living things worksheet, students determine if given statements are true or false. Students correct the false statements making them true. Also, students answer several short questions that relates to...
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T-Rex

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the differences between a scavenger and a predator.  In this predator lesson students research an animal and study its physical traits. 
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Who Eats Whom in the Salt Marsh?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders complete a virtual online salt marsh tour. In groups, they observe and identify the various types of animals found in the marsh. After categorizing the animals, they create a food web based on the animals role in the...
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It's a Jungle Out There: How Species Survive in the Jungle

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the different adaptation and skills of jungle species. In this ecology lesson, students play an interactive online game where they match species with their adaptation. They research about a specific adaptation and...
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Arthropods at Home: Spider, Isopod, or any Arthropod

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders observe, discuss, and record the requirements of a healthy environment for both arthropods and people by designing and maintaining an artificial habitat for an arthropod, and considering the requirements for a healthy body...
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Save the Animals!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research an endangered animal and share what they learned through the use of technology. In this interdisciplinary lesson plan on animals, students conduct research on an endangered animal. Then, students create a PowerPoint...
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Build a Polyp

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research coral polyps. In this coral polyps lesson plan, students discover the anatomy of a coral polyp and how they feed. Students create an edible coral polyp model.
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Got Plants

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discover that all living things need food in order to live. In groups, they examine the interconnectedness between animals and plants. They identify which animals eat plants to survive and which animals eat animals that...
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Ecology and the Ecosystem

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students locate 20 terms about the ecosystem in a word search. Answers are available in various formats.
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Echolocation and Communication

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students participate in a role-play activity to determine how whales use the properties of echolocation to communicate.
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Amphibians Internet Activity

For Students 5th - 10th
In this amphibians worksheet, students click on the links in the questions about amphibians to find the answers to the questions and then come back and answer the questions. Students answer 10 questions total.
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Food Webs

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify predator/prey relationships based on the food web of the tropical rain forest ecosystem and realize they need a food web for survival. In this food web lesson plan, students complete a role play activity being animals...
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Sharks At Risk Viewing Guide

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students complete a worksheet while viewing a film about sharks. They examine the reasons for overfishing of the oceans. They identify predator-prey relationships as well.
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Using Color as Defense

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore mimicry and crypsis, participate in hands-on predator-prey activity, and practice calculating averages and graph results in histogram.
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Focus on Food Chains

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders collect and analyze data about food chains. They conduct Internet research about the habitat of a selected organism, write a narrative, and create a computer slideshow using Kid Pix computer software that illustrates the...
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Where in the Wild?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate the purpose of animals' ability to camouflage. In this animal science lesson, students read the text Where in the Wild? and identify animals that are predators and prey. Students discuss how camouflage is necessary...
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Animal Adaptations

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Animal adaptations, such as camouflage, are high-interest topics that are easily integrated into both reading and math curriculum.
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Bat Ecology

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students, through hands on games and activities, discover how bats live and how bats benefit ecosystems. They play a game designed to show them how echolocation works and another to show how mother bats locate their young through their...
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The Great Horned Owl

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this recognizing facts about the Great Horned Owl learning exercise, students read fun facts, match illustrations with adaptations, sequence life cycle cards, and read what to do if they find an injured bird. Students solve 16 answers.
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The Great Barracuda

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore oceanography by researching the great barracuda.  In this animal life lesson, students read several vocabulary terms dealing with ocean life and examine a drawing of a barracuda.  Students examine the many...
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What Is Happening To My Species?

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners select and research an animal that lives in the rainforest of Manu, Peru. They watch and discuss a video, create masks and costumes to role-play various rainforest animals, conduct research, and write a short story of their...
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Allosaur Survival Game

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students uses this game to see how difficult survival is even for a fierce predator, especially when it is young. It stresses: How much energy it takes to keep a large animal alive or a small one growing, The differences in the fauna...
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Wonderful World of Bats

For Teachers K
Students create a book about bats. They write a letter to a scientist containing questions about bats. They compare the socialization of bats to humans; compare the needs of bats to humans and other animals.
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Under the Spell of Spiders!

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students read about spider body parts, abilities, tendencies, and life cycles. In this Under the Spell of Spiders! lesson, students create mystery creatures that turn out to be spiders. Students catch and observe spiders and insects....

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