Animation Lesson Plans

Students explore how people's views on animal treatments differ. In this animal treatment and attitudes lesson plan, students review cases on animal treatment and evaluate whether or not the case was animal cruelty. Students understand animals need to be treated in a human way. Students understand laws about animal treatment. Students share the results of their cases

Young scholars observe animal behaviors and record their observations. In this animal behavior lesson students record animal behaviors at specific intervals of time using an ethogram. Young scholars may first practice an ethogram using a classmate. Students reflect on the animal behaviors they have observed.

Students research an animal and their habitat. In this animal habitat lesson plan, students observe a WebQuest that describes the different habitats: deserts, tundra, rainforest, forest, and ocean. They determine which habitat their animal would live and how that home meets the animal's basic needs. 

Students find common needs between plants and animals. In this plants and animals instructional activity students compare that both plants and animals need food and water. They also find the differences between plant and animal needs.

Young scholars research endangered animal in the library and on the Internet for information on its description, habitat, forces causing its decline, and programs to help it; students create slide show about the animal that contains a clay animation video.

Make connections about animal characteristics and the animal's environment. In this animal characteristics lesson plan, students use a piece of art as a springboard for a discussion about animals and camouflage. Students choose an animal that uses camouflage to research, draw, and write about.

Looking for a technology-based research lesson for your science curriculum? Then this lesson is for you! Students work together in order to classify animals into specific groups. Individually, each student performs a Webquest on their animal. Each students creates a poster of their animal shown in their habitat by utilizing the Kidspiration software. Resource links and worksheets are embedded in this impressive lesson.

Before a trip to the zoo, you can have your students complete these motivating activities. Learners listen to the book Do Pigs Have Stripes by Melanie Walsh, and classify a group of animals based on attributes. Then students draw a picture of animals they could see at the zoo, and use a Venn diagram to compare animals, such as giraffes, elephants, zebras, etc. Finally, students head to the computer lab to write a sentence about a zoo animal.  

Students examine how animals use their colors to their advantage. They read the book, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?," participate in a toothpick camouflaging demonstration, explore the Camouflage Field Book website, participate in a virtual fieldtrip to the Bronx Zoo, and write a report about an animal.

Students research the habitats, physical characteristics, adaptations, diet and interactions of a mammal,fish, insect,bird,amphibian or reptile of their choice. Students then create a bookmark summary with a minimum of one picture of their animal. Students incorporate the use of the internet and a word processing program.