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- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students create a concept map of vertebrate animals. Some animals the students may have on their maps include fish, mammals, birds, and reptiles. Each student has his or her own concept map to create and share with the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students utilize picture cards to classify animal and plants in a taxonomy. They summarize the classification process that was named after Carolus Linnaeus. Each student outlines the two kingdoms of living things that he pointed out in his studies. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students brainstorm a list of characteristics that make an organism living or non-living. In groups, they design their own experiments to carry out to determine if objects are living or non-living. To end the lesson, they identify the needs of living things and discuss. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students complete a variety of activities about spiders. They research a specific spider and create a mini-book about it. They create a 3-D model of a spider that is anatomically correct. They complete a series of labs regarding spider webs and web strength. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students study spiders. They view spider silk through a microscope and compare it to human hair or other fibrous materials. In groups, they compare the strength and elasticity of spider silk. Finally they watch a teacher demonstration on polymers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students are informed that they are going to work as a class to create a time line of life on Earth. They are each assign an organism: bacteria, cynobacteria, plants, invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, first mammals, Java man, Peking woman, Australopithecus boisei, Neanderthal man, Cro-Magnon man, and modern-day humans. Students research their organism, they write the number of years ago the organism appeared on Earth. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students review what they have already explored about the brain and the nervous system. They comprehend that neurons are the cells of nerve tissue. Students discuss that a neuron consists of a main portion, which contains the nucleus, and cell extensions called axons and dendrites. They discuss how the nervous system transmits messages. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students begin the lesson by making their own plant and animal book of those found in their area. In groups, they classify the plants found in winter and in summer. They record their observations on how the plants change over time and participate in an activity to end the lesson. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students discover ways in which humans endager the life of animals by changing their habitat. They work with a partner to design a solution to the problem of habitat destruction. Students visit various wer sites and make a web to show what they have comprehended about animals and their habitat. Full Review »
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