Basic Animal Behavior in Domesticated Animals - Students investigate animal behavior, examining the nervous system and the physiology of the brain and the fight or flight response. They simulate animal behaviors and discuss the difference between an instinct and a behavior.
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Big Cats - Students explain that an animal's niche is its ecological role in a community, especially with regard to food consumption and that each big cat species fills a particular niche in its ecosystem.
Overall Rating: | Grades: 6 - 8 | Full Review >>

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The Last Meow - Students explore the popular culture phenomenon of the musical 'Cats' and the T.S. Eliot poems that were its inspiration. They write original poems about animals, and read them aloud to their peers.
Overall Rating: | Grades: 6 - 12 | Full Review >>

Kings of the Kalahari - Students study characteristics of the Kalahari Desert, and the biological adaptations that enhance lions' survival and reproductive success. They, in groups, produce a mural depicting life in the Kalahari Desert.
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Calico Watercolor Cats - Students orally present their completed artwork using prepositions and nouns to describe the location of their cats.
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Too Many Pets, Too Few Homes - Students examine role of the community in managing the problem of pet overpopulation, draw conclusions based on statistical information in the US and NC, and construct their own 'letter to the editor' about the problem and possible solutions.
Overall Rating: | Grades: 3 - 6 | Full Review >>

Seven Fat Cats - Students listen to a read aloud of "Seven Fat Cats" matching rhyming, beginning, ending and vowel sounds.
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Cats - Students create original cat poems after studying T.S. Eliot's collection, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
Overall Rating: | Grades: 3 - 8 | Full Review >>

Here Kitty, Kitty - Students count up to ten objects in a group to find out how many.
Overall Rating: | Grades: Pre-K - 2 | Full Review >>