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- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students get acquainted with diverse forms of life by using modern biological classification systems to group animals that are related. They explore basic scientific groupings like genus, species, mammals, fish, birds, amphibians, and reptiles. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students apply their knowledge of the different categories of species that live on Earth. They use a variety of thinking maps to display their information. They choose between plants, fish, birds, mammals, reptiles, or amphibians. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 5th
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Students research facts about herps--reptiles and amphibians. They choose one or more facts to illustrate and create a drawing to be displayed. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students study the metamorphosis and development of frogs in this interdisciplinary unit. They investigate and observe the transition of tadpoles into frogs by reading, drawing, using math resources and incorporating the arts into the study. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students become familiar with the need for categorizing scientific information, in this case, animals. They categorize the 5 groups of animals. (Mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, & amphibians). Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students research different animals, one for each letter of the alphabet. They classify their animal as a mammal, a bird, a reptile, or an amphibian. The animal's habitat, as well as its interaction within its habitat, is researched. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students, in groups, construct dioramas that display life found in different eras of the Earth's evolution. They present dioramas on invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and humans. They discuss the theory of evolution. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students research wild animal habitats and create a fact file. they sub-divide the animals into mammals, birds, fish, reptiles/amphibians, and insects/arachnids. Working in five groups, they individually choose an animal to research. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students study the different classifications of animals: Mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and insects. They analyze about spiders which belong to the arachnid group. Students distinguish between fact and opinion. They describe the life cycle of a spider. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students study frogs and gain the basic knowledge of a frog's metamorphosis by watching a frog hatchery kit. They contribute this information towards why we all change and that all changes need to follow a cycle. Full Review »

