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Self-Efficacy Strategies

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Scholars with high levels of self-efficacy perform better in school. Instructors review a list of strategies for enhancing self-efficacy skills. They discover how to teach learners to appropriately define success, celebrate progress, and...
Activity
Utah Education Network

Uen: Animal Adaptations

For Students 4th - 5th
A multitude of activities provide help with understanding animal adaptations.
Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Animals: Animal Adaptations

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of animal adaptations, that look at physical and behavioral adaptations.
Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Reporters: Animal Adaptations

For Students 3rd - 7th
Provides guidelines for doing research on animal adaptations. Provides some examples of adaptations and then provides questions to help students develop a report on a particular animal's adaptations.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Plant and Animal Changes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders will learn about animal adaptation, hibernation, and migration.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Grassland Animal Adaptations

For Students 4th - 8th
Learn about the different animals that live in tropical and temperate grasslands and how they have adapted to their environment. Also discusses some plant adaptations.
Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Animal Adaptations

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson plan site, students will investigate what animal adaptations are and how animals are adapted to where they live. A four-step process guides the students in their investigation.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Animal Adaptations: Fishing Cat

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how the semi-aquatic fishing cat evolved millions of years ago to live in the wetlands of South and Southeast Asia in this video from NATURE: The Story of Cats (4:18). The accompanying activity prompts students to write an...
Unit Plan
CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Amazing Animal Adaptations

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explore various characteristics and adaptations that help organisms survive in different environments.
Handout
University of Washington

Neuroscience for Kids: Animal Senses

For Students 3rd - 8th
Information site provides examples of several animals and their amazing adaptations to their environments.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Total Solar Eclipse Animation

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief animation adapted from NOVA illustrates how total solar eclipses form and explains the stages from first contact to totality. [1:14]
eBook
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tar Heel Reeder: Animal Adaptations

For Students 3rd - 6th
Read this ebook to view examples of structural and behavioral adaptations that help animals survive.
Activity
Utah Education Network

Uen: Animal Adaptations

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this engaging site, adaptations are defined and then a list of animals are provided along with adaptation-related questions to answer. Links to the animal sites are included.
Website
PBS

Idaho Ptv: Science Trek: Animal Migration

For Students 3rd - 5th
A comprehensive overview of animal migration. Includes three videos: a half-hour show, a video short, and a short video where an expert answers children's questions. Other features of the site include facts, links, games and activities,...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Animal Ecosystems, Adaptations and Food Chains

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This unit contains interactive lessons on animal ecosystems, animal classification, adaptations, and food chains.
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BBC

Bbc Schools: Ks2 Bitesize: Science: Living Things: Plant and Animal Habitats

For Students 3rd - 5th
Place the aliens in the habitats where they can survive the best. Following the activity, read more about plant and animal habitats, and then take a quick quiz to check for understanding.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Plant and Animal Communities

For Teachers 2nd
Learn about the six main classes of the animal kingdom.
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Norway Vikings: How Are Animals Adapted to Their Environment?

For Students 5th - 7th
Learn about the patterns of adaptation in animals in response to changes to their environment. These can be in relation to things such as diet, survival against predators, or a change of habitat.
Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: The Amazing Adaptable Frog

For Students 9th - 10th
Journey back over a million years ago and see how the common frog has adapted and changed.
Handout
McGraw Hill

The Mc Graw Hill Companies, Inc.: Adaptation

For Students 9th - 10th
Evolution, natural selection, sexual selection, coevolution, convergent evolution, mimicry, and coloration, are the topics examined in this thorough site. Assess your comprehension of the material presented by delving into the learning...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Animal Adaptation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will investigate the habitats of different organisms and the dependence of organisms on their habitat and recognize that organisms have specific traits that help them adapt so they can carry...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Why Are Some Animal Groups So Successful?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Using squirrels as an example, students will understand that some animal groups' inherited traits enable them to adapt and spread into many environments. Included in this instructional activity are videos showing the instructional...
Interactive
BioMan Biology

Bio Man Biology: Snurfle Islands

For Students 4th - 8th
Create a Snurfle and see whether it can survive in different environments. As you play the game, you will learn about natural selection and animal adaptations. At the end of the game, try the multiple-choice quiz to check your...
Unit Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Would Your Animal Survive Here? Day 1

For Students 3rd
Determine whether an animal can survive in a different environment than its own based on its inherited traits.

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