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Picture Scramble: Opossum, Grizzly Bear, Manatee
In this science and visual discrimination worksheet, students examine images of an opossum, grizzly bear and manatee. Next to each picture is the same image which has been divided into 9 pieces and scrambled. Students place the numbers 1...
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What Do Koalas Need to Survive?
First graders take a field trip and examine the Koala and his habitat. In this Koala lesson, 1st graders read Possum Magic and discuss the foods of Australia. Students view the habitat of a Koala and record what it eats, its physical...
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Word Search: Urban Mammals
Learners find 17 common urban animals. The animals range from bats, to foxes, to opossums. A colorful and accurate drawing of each animal is present on the worksheet, and an answer key is provided. Answers can be horizontal, vertical, or...
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Tug-o-War Coloring Page
In this coloring page worksheet, learners color a picture of a raccoon and an opossum playing tug-o-war with a fish. They also color the raccoon who is cheering on the other animals.
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How to Tame a Field Trip to the Zoo
Keep your pupils focused on field trip learning objectives with before, during, and after activities.
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Gestation and Longevity
Is the gestation length of an animal a predictor of the average life expectancy of that animal? Learners analyze similar data for more than 50 different animals. They choose a data display and draw conclusions from their graphs.
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Extreme Mammals
Extreme characteristics can create some unusual mammals. Learners flip through a slide show of some of the most interesting mammals that are both living and extinct. Implement as a remote learning resource or use in-class to review...
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Map Me a Paragraph
There are so many great reading strategies. In this instructional activity, learners practice decoding. They break down two paragraphs to analyze and determine main ideas and details. They each observes ways to model as they map their...
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Hunt the Fact Monster Hunt #26
In this internet research instructional activity, students use the Fact Monster search engine to find the answers to ten unrelated questions.
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Wildlife Burrows
Burrowing animals are busy! Get your middle school ecologists busy as well by having them create a scale model of a burrowing population. They also design a PowerPoint or poster to explain their models.
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Structural and Behavioral Adaptations
Learners participate in a role playing lab that allows students to experience how different beak adaptations play a role in the type of food the animal can eat, therefore playing a role in the survival of the species.
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Hibernation and Torpor
In this hibernation learning exercise, students read about the differences between hibernation and torpor. Then students determine how long it takes for an animal to warm up or cool down its body. Students complete 4 short answer questions.
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Food Chain/Food Web
Students explore ecosystems. In this ecology lesson plan, students read an article explaining ecosystems. Students create a visual organizer with index cards using components of various ecosystems.
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Mammals of Fields, Meadows, and Hedgerows
In this mammals worksheet, students research the internet to find information and answer short answer questions about mammals of fields, meadows, and hedgerows. Students complete 12 questions.
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My Colorful Food Chain
Students explore biology by participating in a dietary habit activity. For this food chain lesson, students discuss their own diets and the animals we feed upon daily. Students create a poster demonstrating the animals that we feed upon...
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Trees at Work... Just Look!
Students investigate the significance of trees. They collect magazine pictures of animals that live in trees, list products that are made from trees, collect twigs and create an item using the sticks, and bring in and discuss food from...
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Populations and Ecosystems
Sixth graders define terms prey, predator, and scavenger, describe predator-prey relationship, discuss effects of a lack of predators in an environment, and separate the role of the scavenger from that of the predator.
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Great Flathead Lake Ecosystem Mystery
Students analyze data to solve the mystery of what contributed to an ecological disaster at Great Flathead Lake. They read and graph the available data, create a food web of the problem ecosystem, and construct a formal problem statement...
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Night Hike
Young scholars explore Upham Woods at night and investigate about the special adaptations of nocturnal animals. They identify three nocturnal animals and how they are adapted to the night. Students explain what night vision is and how it...
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Watchable Wildlife Checklist
In this wildlife learning exercise, students will read over a list of 28 native animal species, their needs, and interesting characteristics. This list can be used as a checklist when out on a hike or in the school yard to identify...
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Name Match
In this name match worksheet, students match up fourteen North American mammals to their formal names by drawing a line from one to the other.
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Marvelous Mammals- Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension Worksheets
In this mammals non-fiction reading comprehension worksheet, 3rd graders read a one page selection about the characteristics of mammals. They answer 10 questions based on the reading including true and false, short answer, and multiple...
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Circle Graph: Snoozing Animals
In this circle graphs activity, students make a circle graph for each animal shown in a chart showing average number of hours each animal sleeps and is awake.
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Powhatan Gender Roles
In this Powhatan gender roles worksheet, students read a 4-page selection regarding the gender roles in Powhatan culture. Students discuss the selection.