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- Grade Range
- 1st - 2nd
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Students state the importance of animal tracks in Native American life and explore how to identify the tracks themselves. They create their own animal tracks guide book after drawing, and labeling examples. Full Review »
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- 4th - 7th
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Students cast animal tracks on a field trip. They split up to capture tracks from different areas and use plaster of Paris to mold to the footprint. They bring casts back to class, create a negative mold and paint it black. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students are introduced to the methods of tracking animals. They use casting plaster to create replica tracks for a variety of domestic animals and complete charts identifying these animals by their tracks. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Students investigate how specific animal parts are related to their functions and their survival. They identify animal tracks using both computer based activities and outdoor investigations. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students collect, interpret, and apply data rerlated to the mapping of marine habitats. Working in pairs, they engage in an interactive acrtivity by tracking each other over a pre-defined area. They monitor foraging behavior over candy trails on a spatial scale. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students observe and investigate animal tracks. They draw prints for local animals and switch with another student to guess the animal, identify animal tracks in a nearby wood lot, create plaster casts of the tracks, and write a story based on their observations in the woods. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students engage in a lesson which serves as an introduction to the ideas and implications of animal tracking. They monitor animal foraging behavior on a spatial scale. The students break into groups and track each other's movements as they move through a pre-determined course. Students also engage in a creative design activity, focusing on how they would design a tag for a marine animal of their choice. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 - 6th
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Students are given a notebook to investigate various animal tracks. At each station, they have to identify the animal track shown, who is chasing who, and describe what happens. There are 4 stations for them to visit and then fill in their log at each one. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 3rd
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Students explore the properties of objects as they observe, describe and classify types of animals, tracks, patterns of movement and attributes. They create and interpret pictures and stories of tracks, signs and patterns of movement to develop clues that tell a story about an animal's or person's activity and purpose Full Review »
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