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Larva and Adult Antlion Body Parts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify the major body segments of antlions. Through the use of diagram worksheets, students label the various body parts of the antlion. They review the life cycle of antlions from the larva stage to adult. Several activities...
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Sharks and Fishes

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students explain the role of the school of fish as the prey and the shark as the predator, as they participate in the game Sharks and Fishes. They demonstrate quick physical movement, and trickery, by sucessfully staying away from the...
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The Big Bad Wolf

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders analyze the popular fairy tale "The Three Little Pigs" for inaccurate references to wolves. They write a story (or compose a song) that correctly depicts the characteristics, traits and predator-prey relationship of a wolf.
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Carmaleetas

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students identify the relationship between predator and prey in the food chain. For this food chain lesson, students work in groups and play a predator and prey game. Students discover what happens when a predator does not find prey. 
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Species Interactions

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore seven terrestrial biomes. They compare relationships between children, parents and friends to interactions among species. After observing pictures of types of interaction, 8th graders describe the predator-prey...
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Who's Coming to Dinner?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners identify the role predators/prey play in food chains, differentiate between food chains and webs, identify factors that affect the balance in food webs, and propose solutions to protect endangered species' environments and...
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Natural Selection

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine adaptation through a hands-on activity and determine how the gene pool can affect adaptability. They simulate a predator and prey relationship by going on a hunt for colored acetate disks. After a three minute hunt, they...
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What's For Dinner?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore the food chain. They brainstorm and create a consumer-consumed food chains using magazine pictures and research materials. Students identify consumer-consumed relationships.
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CSI Clamshell Investigation

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils explore and explain how moon snails eat and where the holes in clamshells come from and then draw conclusion from the data collected. They incorporate math and graphing skills to determine if there is a relationship to a clam's...
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GPS Ecosystem (Ecotone) Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners describe the characteristics of an ecotone. In this ecotone lesson, students pick out their area and describe the visual appearance, conditions, ecosystem, biodiversity, predators, prey, and trees in their ecotone. They create a...
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Amazing Arthropods

For Students 4th - 6th
In this amazing arthropods activity, students read for information and assess comprehension. In this true and false, fill in the bank, multiple choice and short answer activity, students write answers to ten questions.
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Looking at Food Chains

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this Looking at Food Chains worksheet, students read about a food chain under the sea and underline important information. Next, students fill in a graphic organizer about food chains based on the information they just read.
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Food Chain Word Scramble

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this food chain words worksheet, students unscramble the food chain words and then find a hidden word. Students unscramble 14 words total.
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Animals Abound

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore the world of mammals, birds, and fish to compare and contrast their habitats, adaptations, and camouflages. Through research, musical experiences, and hands-on activities, the lives and adventures of these animals are...
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Predator/Prey Relationship

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers study and analyze data collected on the relationship between the snowshoe hare and lynx in Canada over a 28 year period and create a graph. Students also write a response to a proposal to reduce the lynx population.
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Hide and Seek

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars examine animals that use camouflage and discuss why they use it. They create drawing of an imaginary animal that uses camouflage to hide in the classroom and identify the adaptations that would allow it to hide effectively.
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Prey or Pray? Could YOU Escape a Cheetah?

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders estimate the size of an adult cheetah by research and measurement of a picture. They determine the approximate distance and speed of the cheetah from a filmed chase and compare that to their own running speed.
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Choose Your Defense: Spines, Vomit and Camouflage

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate defensive mechanisms of insects and organisms.  In this biology lesson, students draw imaginary caterpillars as well as imaginary parasites that will harm the caterpillar.  Students utilize the Internet to...
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Scales, Scutes, and Skins

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students identify the various adaptations of reptiles and amphibians. After distinguishing between reptiles and amphibians, students discuss the ways in which their adaptations aid in their survival. They participate in a hands on...
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Spelling List 8: Sight Words, "le" Pattern, and Academic Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this spelling list worksheet, students practice spelling words that are sight words, le pattern, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 21 words total.
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Matching Science Words and Definitions About Animals

For Students 5th - 6th
In this matching science words and definitions about animals activity, students match fifteen science words about animals with the definitions.
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Homework 7: Hares and Foxes (Based on a problem in Cic)

For Students Higher Ed
In this system of equations learning exercise, students use systems of equations and Euler's method to calculate the population of hares and foxes. They plot and interpret their results. This one-page learning exercise contains three...
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Bird Feeding and Migration Observation

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students research bird migration and build a bird house. In this bird lesson plan, students research the birds in their area and where they migrate to. They also build their own bird house and record data on what kinds of birds come to...
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Owl Pellets

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the role of owls in their ecosystem. In this food chain lesson plan, 6th graders illustrate an owl food chain, dissect an owl pellet, and analyze data. Students discuss what would happen to owls if there were an...

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