Deer Lesson Plans

Students follow deer through Yellowstone Park and record the number of deer from year to year. In this basic needs of deer lesson plan, students work in small groups and chart the number of deer each year and give explanations using as scarcity, ample, ascend, and few to describe the reasons for movement or lose of the deer populations.

Learners see how analysis of spatial data enhance highway safety, showing the relationship between deer movement and traffic collisions. They use geospatial technologies to evaluate the patterns of deer movement to enhance public safety.

  Students read a fiction book about a mouse deer tricking other animals.  For this reading lesson, students use inference skills to give their opinion about the story.  Students also build on their inference skills by writing a reflection.   

Young scholars calculate the deer population using proportion. In this algebra instructional activity, students apply the concept of ratio and proportion to real life scenario.

Students discuss the components necessary to keep animal populations alive . Then they participate in a game where they interact as deer, food, water, and shelter. The activity demonstrates that nature is not static, but changes with the environment.

Ninth graders study deer including their reproduction rate and management in Pennsylvania.  In this deer overpopulation instructional activity students estimate deer population and suggest management tools. 

Ninth graders examine the white tail deer population in Pennsylvania and explore the impacts that the deer have on the flora and fauna.  In this white-tail deer instructional activity students complete an activity and graph their results. 

Students play a game where half of them are deer and the others are components of habitat: food, water, shelter and space. They signify their needs by hand gestures and take what they need to their side of the game. They discuss real life factors.

Students examine role of whitetail deer in forests, discuss and debate current deer population management policies, use population game to demonstrate population changes, and analyze long-term effects of whitetail deer population management.

Students study the survival strategies of deer during the winter. They investigate the resistance behavior of white tailed deer to winter conditions after discussing migration, hibernation, and resistance as survival techniques. They participate in a field trip into a deer yard in the winter and write about their experience.