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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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- 1st - 8th
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Students view and discuss animal books, pictures and vocabulary,. They sort and classify animal cards, then organize information to develop animal reports. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 8th
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Students, in beginning and advanced beginning ESL levels, use English in an animal lesson. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 3rd
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Students examine animal habits in the winter. They research an animal that interests them and use library books to complete a worksheet. They also classify animals into groups. Full Review »
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- 5th - 7th
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Students are introduced to the classification system of animals. In groups, they set up an aquarium in which they must maintain throughout the year. They also observe earthworms and how they react to various stimuli and research the characteristics of arthropods. To end the lesson, they focus on one phylum of animals and present their information to the class. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students develop a classification system of their own and describe their method to the class. They relate this activity to how the animal kingdom is classified. Students, after researching a variety of resources, choose one animal to study in depth. 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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- 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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- 3rd
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Students investigate how and why scientists use classification. They discuss classification strategies using animals, and as a class fill in a flowchart with their responses. Next, in small groups they cut out a variety of shapes and complete a flowchart for classifying the shapes. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students choose an animal to research and write a report about. They determine the animals' habitat, animal classification, whether it is endangered or extinct, and the type of food it eats. Also, they add any special characteristics that the animal has and use drawing software to design a picture of the animal. Finally, they made a class book of the reports. Full Review »
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