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\nDarwin Inspired Learning: Ages 11-14\n

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\nInspire young scientists to investigate the natural world, promote an understanding and excitement about how the environment works and how we affect it with four unit modules. Scholars investigate Darwin’s research into bees, consider...\n
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\nAdaptations\n

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\nViewers learn about adaptations of plants, animals, and humans through a collection of four Animal League videos. Host Britt Garner discusses behavioral and physical adaptations like camouflage. Also featured are unique adaptions like...\n
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\n\"Rainforest\n\n
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\nRainforest Alliance Belize: 1st Grade\n

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\nTake a journey to Belize with a collection that looks closely into its habitats. Scholars take part in grand conversations, read-alouds, and hands-on activities to delve deep into the different types of habitats, the animals that call...\n
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\nCrash Course: Ecology\n

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\nViewers take a Crash Course in Ecology with a 12-video collection that takes a look at where organisms come from, how they interact, and how they influence their environments. The videos, appropriate for in class or remote learning, use...\n
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\n\"Tales\n\n
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\nTales from California’s Channel Islands: Restoration\n

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\nThe tale of the restoration of California's Channel Islands begins with a video that details the devastation of Santa Cruz Island by introducing species that are not native to the region. Additionally, the video discusses the controversy...\n
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\nClimate Change in My Backyard: Grades 5-6, Unit 3\n

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\nThe third unit in a series of four looks at Earth's system responses to natural and human-induced changes. Fifth and sixth graders learn about how living things and ecosystems are impacted by changing climates. They collect data on plant...\n
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\nLesson: Differing World Views: Human and Animals\n

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\nKids challenge their understanding of the world around them and consider the impact man has on the environment and animal life. They examine a Tlingit piece, read two Tlingit stories about man and animals, then participate in a research...\n
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\nReading Adventure Pack: Environment\n

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\nA fiction and nonfiction text, The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest by Lynne Cherry and I See a Kookaburra! Discovering Animal Habitats Around the World by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page begins a learning experience in...\n
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\nWhere'd You Get All Those Dead Animals?\n

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\nWhy do zoologists collect animal specimens for research? And, how many animals is enough? Explore both sides of a current debate in the scientific community using a video that is part of a larger playlist on mammals. Topics include...\n
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\nPlant or Animal?\n

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\nTeach your class about the necessities of life using the book Tillena Lou's Day in the Sun. After a teacher-read-aloud, learners make puppets depicting different plants and animals from the story and illustrating the habitat in...\n
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\nRainforest Animals\n

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\nWho lives in the rainforest? Explore the different animals of the rainforest with a presentation full of vivid pictures. Each slide uses a common sentence frame to discuss which animals one might find in the rainforest.\n
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\nAnimals in the Winter: Second Grade\n

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\nEver wonder what animals do in winter? If your 2nd graders do then they will enjoy this PowerPoint. Each slide begins with a questions and then provides the answer, it is a short presentation but the resource links at the bottom make it...\n
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\nResearching Polar Animals\n

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\nSecond graders read the questions about polar animals and use the Internet to perform a search for the answers to the questions. They click on the blue links to go to the particular website with the answers and then print off their sheet.\n
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\nRainforest Animals and Plant Life in the Amazon Jungle\n

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\nSee how the animals and plants of the rainforest are perfectly adapted to each other and their lush environment. This is a short clip from a longer BBC special but works well on its own when used to show environmental interdependence.\n
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\nIntroduce Vocabulary: I See Animals Hiding (Arnosky)\n

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\nAnimals are amazing at disguise! Explore the different ways they escape view as scholars learn vocabulary-in-context through Jim Arnosky's book I See Animals Hiding. Prepare pupils to raise their hands when they hear...\n
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\nAnimal Life Stages\n

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\nGuide your young scientists in reviewing basic animal processes including digestion and reproduction. Students review the stages of metamorphosis and the different types of body symmetry. This activity has 8 matching, 6 true or false, 4...\n
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\nNatural Resources, and Human Uses of Plants and Animals\n

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\nAs part of their study of the restoration projects on Santa Cruz Island, class members demonstrate their understanding of the connections among plant life, animals, and the actions of humans by crafting a model that reveals these...\n
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\nEvolution of Fur Color in Mice – Mutation, Environment and Natural Selection\n

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\nMost species of animals include a variety of fur or hair color, but why? Scholars watch a video about a changing environment for mice. As the rocks around them change hues, different colors of mice begin to thrive. Discussion questions...\n
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\nAnimals Vocabulary Fill Puzzle\n

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\nIn this science worksheet, students figure out the answers to 15 clues going across and down associated with vertebrate animals. Students fill in a crossword puzzle.\n
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\nAnimals Must Fit In\n

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\nA instructional activity on tadpoles is here for your young biologists. Learners read a short paragraph on tadpoles, then answer three questions regarding how parts of their bodies help the tadpole to survive in the pond. There is a good...\n
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\nAnimals of the Fire Ice\n

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\nWhen the sun's rays can't reach the producers in a food web, where does all the energy come from? Extreme environments call for extreme food sources. Young scientists investigate creatures that appear to get their energy from methane...\n
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\nThe Arctic food web may be more limited than other environments, but it has all the same components. With an interactive activity, pupils assume the roles of the components of an Arctic food chain. They move around and link themselves to...\n
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\nYoung biologists identify how plants and animals are affected by changes in their ecosystem and environment.  The concepts of succession, maintenance of habitats, interrelationships, and adaptation are all discussed. This...\n
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\nRescuing, Relocating, and Rehabilitating Wildlife\n

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\nBring up the Deepwater Horizon (BP) oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Display the colorful diagram of the coastal and marine organisms living in the area. Show a video about relocating the eggs of the Gulf's sea...\n
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