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Froggy Fun

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students use downloadable pages to sort the stages of the frog life cycle into the correct, labelled sequence.
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Froggy Fun

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students are introduced to the concept of life cycles. They discover how many species go through their lives in a series of stages from birth or hatching to adulthood. Such stages make up the life cycle. Students investigate the life...
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Small Pond Creatures

For Teachers K - 6th
Learners complete a unit about the different creatures that can live in a small pond habitat. They create a glossary, create a class Small Pond mural, develop a Frog Fact File, read a variety of books, and conduct research for a report...
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Life Cycles of Frogs, Dragonflies, And Butterflies

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explain the similarities and differences in the life cycles of organisms. The lesson begins with a reading of Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
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The Great Pond Safari

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students study pond life by visiting a pond and completing an associated worksheet. They play an online game based on the pond learning experience.
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Pond Safari

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate organisms and animals by examining a nearby pond. In this ecosystem lesson, students participate in a field trip to a local pond where they utilize a net to gather animals, plants and pollution items, Students...
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Pond Theme Unit

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this pond theme worksheet students research facts on pond life. Students complete comprehension questions, crosswords, word search, and math puzzles. Students write a short report.
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Amphibians Internet Activity

For Students 5th - 10th
In this amphibians activity, students click on the links in the questions about amphibians to find the answers to the questions and then come back and answer the questions. Students answer 10 questions total.
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Buzzing is BEE-lieving

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate insects. In this insect lesson, students explore various insect models and identify the characteristics of each. Students observe insects outside and tally how many insects they observe.
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What am I?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this animal related worksheet, students read and analyze each clue card to figure out what animal is being described and check their answers against the answer key.
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Ecosystem Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this ecosystem worksheet, students read descriptions and match the appropriate vocabulary term using ecosystem, habitat, community, and population. Students identify ten vocabulary terms.
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Web of Life Game: Trout

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore the concept of food webs.  In this food web lesson, students demonstarte the connection between species.  Students use a ball of string show how the food web works, then have a class discussion. 
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Animal Homes

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this animals worksheet, students click the correct animal, click the correct habitat, and click the animals that don't live in a given habitat. Students complete 3 activities.
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Beaver Ecology

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students explore the lives of bgeahvers. They identify the physical and behavioral adaptations that help beavers survive in their environment. Students compare and contrast how beavers influence the ecology of both forest and aquatic...
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A Peat Bog Wordsearch

For Students 6th - 8th
In this environment worksheet, middle schoolers find the words related to a peat bog and the answers are found by clicking the link at the bottom of the page.
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Pond Animals Word Search Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this science instructional activity, students read 16 species names of pond animals and locate them in a word search puzzle. There are no graphics on this puzzle which has a word bank.
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Who Lives in a Wetland?

For Students 5th - 6th
In this science instructional activity, students list the names of 14 animals that live in a wetland. The animals are pictured and numbered. Students identify the animals and color the picture.
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Weird Flying Creatures

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners write and create a creature that is unusual to fly. In this flying creatures lesson plan, students research flying fish, snakes, squirrels, and more, and list their traits and create one in groups.
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Is That Your offspring?

For Students 4th
In this animal worksheet, study the names of animal offspring.  Students complete 2 word searches finding the offspring vocabulary in one and the parent names in the other.
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The Web Of Life - Overlapping Food Chains

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners perform an activity in which they discover what happens when food chains overlap in an ecosystem and discover the three components of a food web.