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Environmental Differences

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe and conduct an experiment to see whether differences in salinity (the environment) have an affect on the hatching rate and survival of brine shrimp.
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The Great Spider Debate

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students study about the survival and hunting strategies of several different kinds of spiders. They also be introduced to scientific classification of spiders and write a brief report about one of the spider families they observe.
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A Tale of Two Cranes How Do Wild and Costume-raised Whoopers Compare?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore what young cranes need to do to survive.
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Of Mice and Moths

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students study the concept that genetic variation of offspring contributes to population control. They create a presentation showing natural selection and survival of the fittest.
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Keeping Warm

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars create a collage investigating different strategies animals use for keeping warm. This lesson is part of a multi-segmented unit on animal survival.
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Something Fishy

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students identify and discuss the adaptive characteristics and behaviors of fish. They view slides of fish, and design and create a model of a fish of the future, listing the ways their fish adapt to survive.
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Adaptable Animals

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students examine the types of adaptations that animals use to survive. They research the animals and report their findings to the class.
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Pioneers to Kansas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate items for basic survival, needed for survival, and luxury items. They compare what they need to what Indians and Pioneers needed in the 1700's and 1800's.
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How Big Is Your Landscape?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners explore how an organism perceives its landscape and how changes to its landscape can effect its survival. Of particular focus is the effect of urbanization and the organisms survival in the cities.
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Build a Bug

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students design an ideally adapted macroinvertebrate to live in a water habitat. They illustrate their animal, name it and specify the adaptations it has that enable it to survive.
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Animals

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss the term "endangered". They identify the reasons some animals are in danger of being wiped out. They discover ways humans can help the species survive.
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Critters of the Water

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine different organisms in various marine habitats. They identify any adaptations that have allowed the organisms to survive. They develop an imaginary organism and describe its life cycle.
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Devine Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the functions of the different systems in the body. They discover how different systems must work together to make the body function correctly. They identify the needs of the body to help it survive.
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Adventures along the Oregon Trail in Nebraska

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discover how the land and people we develop relationships with in Nebraska affect our survival--past, present, and future. They write about and interview their grandparents, parents and peers and compare them with people on the...
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The Evolution of Canis pedatus

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners examine the given characteristics of a previously unknown dog-like creature, Canis pedatus, to decide if the creatures would survive when relocated to a new environment. They work in small groups to decide whether or not the...
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Using Magnetotactic Bacteria to Study Natural Selection

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers demonstrate that living organisms may possess incredible adaptations which enable them to survive. They observe bacteria that are able to orient themselves using the Earth's magnetic field and formulate a hypothesis as to...
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The Evolution of Canis pedatus

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, in groups, examine the given characteristics of a previously unknown dog-like creature, Canis pedatus. They discuss whether or not this species would show adaptations and survive if it were relocated to a new environment.
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Sticky Tongue

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders make inquiry about the adaptations that help a frog to survive in its environment. They identify the adaptations and define how they work. They also research the idea of how species have common characteristics.
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Hunting For Bats

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the adaptations that occur in bats. The benefits of adaptations are discussed with them and the probability of survival is measured. The specific adaptations are written and defined.
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Betty Mae Jumper and The Second Seminole War

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders describe the reasons for, nature of, and outcomes of the Second Seminole War. They determine that Seminole women and men faced many hardships as they fought for their survival. They relate a story of a Seminole "first"...
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Evolution

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students illustrate the results of natural selection by identifying the specific adaptation of an organism that allows the species to survive in that environment. They illustrate the results of natural selection by recognizing examples...
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Animals of Point Reyes

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore how disasters affect animals.  In this animal habitats lesson students create an animal that will survive in Point Reyes habitats. 
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A Guide for Community Living

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students use photography to help them become more knowledgeable about their communities, and to make a "community survival" book in which problems are solved by going to the right community agency.
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Thanksgiving Unit

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify: why the Pilgrims came to America; how they adjusted to life in America; what impact the Native Americans had on the survival of the Pilgrims; and what events brought about the First Thanksgiving.

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