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- 1st
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Students listen to the book, Dear Zoo. Working in groups, they develop a list of at least three zoo mammals. They write a letter to a zookeeper using four parts, which include a heading, body, closing and signature. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students use their collected information on bears to compare them to humans through a Venn Diagram, which leads to an introduction on mammals. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students use ice water, a glove, and vegetable shortening to simulate the insulating effects of blubber. They research sea mammals focusing on their adaptive insulating abilities in cold water. Full Review »
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- 8th - 10th
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Students identify the body parts in Ice Age mammals that allowed them to survive. They answer questions as a class and discuss. They examine photographs of the animals as well. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students complete a unit on the oceans of the world. They explore various websites, compare/contrast ocean mammals and fish, identify coral reefs on a map, label the oceans on a world map, define ocean conservation vocabulary, and list ways the oceans help us. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students examine and research a major region of the Unites States in groups of four. In addition, they locate the states, capitals, mammals and two bodies of water or mountain ranges found within their region. After the research, they create a short play or story acting and taking their mammals through a journey through their region. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students, after discussing the teacher's handout examples, practice writing five story problems about mammals using relevant/irrelevant information. As a class, they solve the story problems while identifying the key concepts that make each story problem relevant/irrelevant . Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students explore cold-blooded and warm-blooded animals. They classify animals into mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, and insects. They discuss the difference between warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals and simulate being a snake. They simulate being an animal for the day. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students access an Internet site and view a picture of a mammal. They identify two characteristics of mammals that are visible on the image. They compare and contrast mammals and non-mammals. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students visit the library media center and use books about mammals. Each student picks up a worksheet and pencil. They use the books to find three or more facts about mammals. Students list the facts on the worksheet in their own words. Students may use the Table of Contents and indexes of the books. Students write a paragraph about the mammals they researched. Full Review »
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