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5,025 Animal characteristics Lesson Plans
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Students study animals and their relationship to the environment in this multi-lesson series. They use their senses to identify a wide variety of animals. They decide which animals would make good pets and how their needs should be met. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students study the classification of animals by participating in a game that can be used to help them study animal characteristics. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students investigate the characteristics of mammals. They participate in a class discussion, sort animal photos, and create an animal drawing of an original mammal. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 3rd
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Students research animal characteristics and use their imaginations to tell about what it would be like to wake up one morning and find that they have some animal characteristic. They read Imogene's Antlers by David Small. Full Review »
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- 1st - 3rd
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Students investigate eight basic animal groups, and identify the different groups through knowledge of animal characteristics, changes, and life cycles of each group. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students research animal characteristics, habitats and basic needs using a variety of resources including the Internet and print sources. They complete the associated worksheets. They design a PowerPoint presentation using the material from their research. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 4th
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Students examine the importance of animals being able to adapt to their surroundings. Using the Komodo dragon, they identify how it has adapted to its surroundings. They answer questions as a class and use the internet to explore more animals and their adaptations. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students create animal print casts from molds in the classroom. They use the cast patterns to identify animal prints on a field trip in which they locate animal tracks, identify the location with GPS and create field casts of the prints. They use this data to estimate animal populations in the area. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students research and classify animals. They create a list of tools to research animals and view videos, read magazine articles and research websites for information. They write a list of characteristics for their animals and wrote a research report. They present their reports to the class. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students experiment and participate in an animal taxonomy game designed to help students study about animal characteristics. They assess the characteristics of the most common animal groups, identify animals within a specific animal group and distinguish between the six most common groups of animals. Full Review »

