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- 2nd - 4th
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Students learn words such as raccoon and condor which are Native American words. They define and illustrate them and make a booklet. Full Review »
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- 1st - 8th
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Students learn the differences in tooth structure and how it determines what a specific animal eats. This is accomplished by constructing a raccoon puppet. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students study the predator-prey relationship by recording the differences between sea turtles and land tortoises. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students research raccoons. They access a website that has raccoon pictures, sounds, eating habits, raccoon rescue, and other fun activities. They complete a worksheet over what they learn from the site. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 8th
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Students discuss the different types of ecosystems and the composition of biomes. Working in groups, they define various related terms and make posters of them. Then they explain their posters to the class. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students identify three species of wildlife in Arkansas. They discuss the environment in which the whitetail deer, raccoon, and beaver live in. They identify the footprints of each animal and discuss how the animals are harvested and how they are useful to our society. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 3rd
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Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing rereading and decoding strategies , students complete multiple reads of a novel text. With the instructor, they read complete a timed assessment of their words read per minute and record their progress. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students explore cladistics and create a cladogram of their own. They are shown how the scientist at the American Museum of Natural History use a method called cladistics to group animals. Students are asked how the animals (lion, elephant, zebra, knagaroo, koala, buffalo, raccoon, and alligator) are related and what might be a good way of grouping them. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students play a game about balance of prey and preditors in an ecosystem using masks of panthers, deer, hogs and raccoons. They research foods of the Florida panther as well as their limiting factors. They recognize there are fluctations in wildlife populations. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students create a three-dimensional model of the Chicago river watershed to determine the flow of the river at its mouth. They use prepared clear gelatin and topographic maps to discover that the building of canals actually reversed the flow of the river. Full Review »