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Curated OER

Crossword

For Teachers 5th - 8th
For this crossword worksheet, learners, after researching dessert animals, complete a crossword puzzle involving twelve dessert animals.
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Curated OER

Bats: Need Nectar, Will Travel

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Beginning wildlife biologists become adult bats, baby bats, snakes, owls, bobcats, or land-clearing developers in a grand role-playing activity. In a large open space, they play a game in which they move to designated areas based on what...
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Curated OER

Salt Marsh Plants and Animals

For Students 4th - 5th
In this salt march plant and animals instructional activity, students read descriptions of animals, then match each to its picture. Students then read about tidal animals and choose which animals in picture are most likely to be in a...
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Curated OER

Animals and Environments

For Teachers K
Students listen to stories and identify animals and their young.  In this animals instructional activity, students view videos about farm animals and create illustrations to show how animal babies change over time.  Students discuss...
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Curated OER

Reproduction of Animals and Plants Crossword Puzzle

For Students 7th - 9th
In this crossword puzzle, students answer 27 clues about vocabulary terms related to the reproduction of both animals and plants.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Reproduction of Animals and Plants Crossword Puzzle Answers

For Students 7th - 9th
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students are given the answers to 18 clues about vocabulary related to the reproduction of animals and plants.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Farm Animal Farm

For Students K - 1st
In this farm animal worksheet, students read the names of five animals with their pictures. Students also complete five sentences by writing in the correct farm animal and drawing their favorite animal.
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Barnyard Bingo

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this fact and myth worksheet about farm animals, students read 25 statements about common farm animals. Students shade only the boxes that contain true statements. If students get them all right, they will have 12 shaded boxes and 3...
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Fabulous Felines

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore basic needs through discovering that pets and people need very similar things. They will play matching games, sing songs, read books, and discuss the needs of people and animals.
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

How Lou Got the Flu

For Students 6th - 12th
Six questions probe participants to discover the possibility of catching a virus from others—even animals. Here, the influenza virus travels from duck to person in a round-about way. The quiz concludes with helpful tips to stay healthy. 
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The Feeding of Baby Lions and snakes

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders view a Count On It! episode and answer a question about the eating habits of animals.  In this  animal eating problem instructional activity, 4th graders determine how much more often a baby lion eats than a snake. ...
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Curated OER

Baby Animals

For Students 1st - 3rd
Here is a simple word search that has young learners find and circle ten various baby farm animals. They color in a horse underneath the puzzle.
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Curated OER

Help the Duck Find Her Babies

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students study the basic need for animals to attract mates and reproduce young.
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K5 Learning

All About Bears

For Students 1st Standards
Want to know all about bears? Read a passage about the way they look, how they live, and their lifestyles. The reading passage is followed by questions that ask what baby bears are called and in what ways some bears are different, to...
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Smithsonian Institution

Trait Tracker

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Help mice beat the odds with an exciting activity about traits. Biologists discover the role of diet and other factors on animal traits by participating in a simulation activity. Teams collect and evaluate data to understand how certain...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

A Cow's Life

For Students 1st - 2nd
Moo! An engaging two-part worksheet focuses on the role of cows in our agriculture system. The second part of the worksheet has ten discussion questions, which should lead to some interesting points about cows. Young farmers can learn...
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Curated OER

Rainforest Weekly

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this rainforest worksheet, young scholars interview a partner who pretends to be Tammy the Tapir. In the interview, Tammy explains that she had a narrow escape from a deadly puma.
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National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

Can Small Pollutants Harm Aquatic Organisms?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Nanoparticles have toxic effects on plant and animal life—even though you can't see them. The second lesson of a two-part series has young scientists conduct an experiment that exposes plant and animals to nanoparticle pollutants. They...
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EngageNY

Comparing and Contrasting Two Texts about Poison Dart Frogs: Eggs and Tadpoles

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Poison Dart Frog babies are the focus of a lesson that challenges scholars to compare and contrast two informational texts. Beginning with a read-aloud, followed by a discussion, readers complete a practice page that examines the main...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Albinistic Animals Are Awesome

For Students 2nd - 5th
Are all academicians allured with alliteration? Use this cross-curricular online resource to simultaneously expose your scholars to parts of speech and the genetic mutation causing albinism. Initial context gives students an introduction...
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Curated OER

Dogfighting Hurts Animals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils discuss dogfights and relate caring for a baby to caring for their animal.  In this dogfighting lesson plan, students view video about dogs forced to fight and relate to parenting skills.  Pupils become familiar with ways to help...
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Curated OER

Family Lesson Plan

For Teachers K
Kindergarteners discuss families with this resource. They talk about human families, explaining how they grow and change, and focus on vocabulary words. Then, they talk about animal families, discuss the vocabulary involved, and match...
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Worksheet Web

Burrowing Animals – Ground Squirrels

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Why do ground squirrels build their homes in the ground? What's so unique about these burrows? Have individuals read about this burrowing animal, and then respond to five short answer questions that assess their comprehension of the...
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Matching Practice: Mother Animals and Babies

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this matching worksheet, students match mother animals with their babies. Animals used are: pig, chicken, elephant, and horse.