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- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students group animals using common characteristics and develop an understaning of animal adaptations. This lesson is one in a series of lessons: Understanding Animal Adaptation: Day 1; Animal Environments: Day 2; Diamante Poetry Using Environments: Day 3 Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students research animal testing in scientific research. They role-play a research scientist, teacher, animal rights activist, or cosmetics manufacturer, and develop an argument for or against animal testing. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students create books about their favorite animals using graphic organizers. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students study how to group animals by their physical characteristics. They examine how animals have adapted to have their needs met by the environment. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students 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. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students research the habitats, physical characteristics, adaptations, diet and interactions of a mammal,fish, insect,bird,amphibian or reptile of their choice. Students then create a bookmark summary with a minimum of one picture of their animal. Students incorporate the use of the internet and a word processing program. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students examine the characteristics of animals who live in a pond environment. In groups, they describe the various stages in the life of a frog and identify the characteristics of other pond animals. Using this information, they create a PowerPoint presentation to share their information with the class. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students will write an animal report. They will use books and the Internet to research their ocean animal. They then will use the StarOffice Writer to type their report. Students will use the internet to find and export an image for the cover of their report. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students determine the characteristics that define a mammal and compare then to the characteristics of other groups of animals. They view and discuss a video on mammals and then play a mystery mammal game in which they present clues to classmates who guess the mammal they represent. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students study about animals and their habitats, their environments, their young and their diets. They participate on a field trip to a local spring to take digital pictures of the environment the animals live in, what they eat and then return to the classroom to create birthday cards and postcards with pictures of native wildlife on them. Full Review »

