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- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students explore diverse forms of life by using modern biological classification systems to group animals that are related. Students then study basic scientific groupings like genus, species, mammals, fish, birds, amphibians, and reptiles, and pair different vertebrate animals, identifying their common traits. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students explore toads in their ecocystem. They perform activities to discover the importance of camouflage for animal survival. Students research information on frogs, toads and salamanders. They compare and contrast amphibians to other animal classes. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students distinguish between walking, jogging and running trackways in humans. They analyze the phylogenetic progression of the leg position as described by pace width and angulation, comparing amphibians, reptiles and mammals. Research is found on the theory of relative stride length. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students use compass directions and mathematical reasoning to come up with strategies to complete the "Animal Data" game. They collect and display data on a graph. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students work in groups. They are given magazines. Students cut pictures of five mamals, five birds, five reptiles, five amphibians, and five fish. They place the pictures in a plastic bag. Students switch bags. They are explained that they should sort the pictures into the five animals vertebrate groupings. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 7th
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Students name the characteristics of animal groups. Students classify the major animal groups such as: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and insects. They identify the elements of specific habitats that each animal needs in order to survive. The students wonder, plan, investigate, reflect, share and act through the scientific method. [edit] M Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students are asked to respond to questions such as:" Have there been surveys of the area to inventory the species?" (For example, for a wetland area, do they know what amphibians live there and how abundant they are?) Are there any threatened or endangered species in the area? , and What are the main threats to the area?" Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students make a picture book about plants or animals in our area. They identify different plants in spring/summer bushes, flowers, weeds, useful plants and non-green plants. They identify animals in spring\summer ¿¿¿ mammals, birds, fish, reptile, amphibians, insects and spiders. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students explore and study the life processes of amphibians and find out how life processes are carried out by particular animal groups. They assess, through a writing assignment, the conclusion that the life processes common to humans and other animals include nutrition, movement, growth and reproduction. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students become familiar with the tools of a digital atlas. They use a digital atlas of Idaho to located specified information. Students identify national forests, locate butterfly families, find examples of resident fish, and explore the major river basins. They examine characteristics that are unique to mammals, reptiles, birds and amphibians. Full Review »
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