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Animal Encounters: Challenge Activities (Theme 6) Unit PlanAnimal Encounters: Challenge Activities (Theme 6) Unit Plan
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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5th
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Animal Encounters: Challenge Activities (Theme 6)

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To enrich their study of wild animals, fifth graders create a wildlife photography exhibit, create a book about animals that live in national parks, and plan a wild animal park for the animals living in their area.

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Concepts

lions, bears

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Have class members write stories about their own wildlife encounters

Classroom Considerations

  • This packet, the first in the series of support materials for the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on animal encounters, contains enrichment activities for learners who have mastered the basic concepts of the lessons
  • Although designed for use with the textbook, the lessons and activities may be used independently
  • The attached link to the blackline masters are for all six themes in the textbook

 

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  • The eight-page resource includes plans, activity suggestions, and group projects

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