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- 11th
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Students investigate a variety of animals and begin to explain the interaction of plants and animals in a forest ecosystem. Full Review »
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- 1st - 3rd
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Students become familiar with the need for categorizing scientific information, in this case, animals. They categorize the 5 groups of animals (mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, and amphibians). Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students become familiar with the need for categorizing scientific information, in this case, animals. They categorize the 5 groups of animals. (Mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, & amphibians). Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students visit a zoo or other animal containment facility. They observe, photograph, and record information about animals and their needs. They interview zoo personel and record their responses. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students categorize animals by their coverings. They list descriptive words, explore a science center with actual animal coverings, match pictures of animals with coverings, and categorize pictures of animals by their coverings on a large graph. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students observe plants and animals in the schoolyard. They describe how the animals change both in appearance and behavior throughout the year. In teams, students perform a variety of activities such as acting out a story about an animal during the different seasons, creating a map of the schoolyard, and playing a guessing game. Children research one or more plants and animals for a poster presentation. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students differentiate between vertebrates and invertebrates, and identify the main characteristics of mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and birds. They sort and categorize different types of balls, discuss the characteristics of five types of vertebrates, and participate in a characteristic identification game. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students work in small groups to investigate the how to sort a variety of items into groups and subgroups. They work on a class chart based on the activity which show how the items are classified based on commonalities. Upon completion of the classification exercise, they complete a KWL chart about Animal Classification. Finally, they discuss the reasons why scientists classify animals and how they determine the schema for doing so. Full Review »
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- 4th - 7th
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Students name the characteristics of animal groups. Students classify the major animal groups such as: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and insects. They identify the elements of specific habitats that each animal needs in order to survive. The students wonder, plan, investigate, reflect, share and act through the scientific method. [edit] M Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students discuss the six main classes of animals: insects, birds, fish, mammals, amphibians, and reptiles. They complete a variety of activities about animals. They solve animal riddles, categorize toy animals, create an animal flap book, and discuss the relationship between plants and animals. Full Review »
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