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Activity
American Museum of Natural History

Make Your Own Creatures of Light

For Students 6th - 12th
Bioluminescent animals are the focus of a hands-on craft in which scholars create a scene of either a land or sea bioluminescent creature.
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

Journey to the Bottom of the Sea

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Follow the path to the sea floor. Pupils play an online interactive board game to reach the bottom of the sea. Participants must match descriptions of creatures to a property of water dealing with oxygen, food, light, or density to move...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Vibrant Animals: Using an Actor's Body for Character Attributes

For Teachers K
Students identify and portray specific character attributes through uprigth movement, creating a portrayal of an animal. They use vibrant, upright movement to convey the characteristics and temperament of specific animals. Finally,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Celebrate Change

For Teachers K - 12th
Students develop fantasy creatures and characters, describing personalities in terms of gestures, actions, and expressions displayed. Then they make fantasy masks, focusing on shape, form, proportion, line, and emphasis to demonstrate...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Scavenger Hunt: Creature Features

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this animal/science worksheet, students participate in a scavenger hunt to locate a variety of animals with different shapes, sizes and colors found in a zoo.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

2nd Grade - Act. 25: Creature Creation

For Teachers 2nd
Create a creature using some of the characteristics of a real animal. Second graders will read a book from the "Froggy," series by Johnathan London to learn about the characteristics of frogs. After discussing and recording various...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

When Everything Old is New Again

For Teachers K - 6th
Students imagine what it would be like if today's animals became dinosaurs, or the ancient creatures reappeared to roam the earth. They invent a dinosaur of the future. What might a futuristic triceratops look like? Students are taught...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rainbow Trout

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners investigate the many varieties of both tropical and freshwater fish, and find out about the anatomy of these creatures. They explore biodiversity in bodies of water, including information about coral reefs, and study the effects...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Owl Eyes.

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners create an animal with clay and use toothpick to draw or carve features. Students write descriptions of their animal and tell why they created it in a certain way. Learners write legends on their own, perhaps using their created...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Creature Feature

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Students make detailed observations and identify an unknown using descriptions.  In this observation lesson students are given a creature and must be able to identify it by species and genus.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fractions

For Teachers 1st
First graders create fraction creatures by using 1 inch squares of construction paper. In this fractions lesson plan, 1st graders name the fractions within their whole creatures.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Same Size Vegetables

For Students K - 2nd
For this same sized instructional activity, students color the items in each row that are the same sized, vegetables, fruits, creatures, and more. Students complete 4 problems on each of the 4 pages.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Create a Creature

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students design, build, draw, or bake a creature of their choice and present to the class. They write a paper including the creature's habitat, method of getting energy, their creature as a producer or consumer, predator or prey species...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Alien Outlook

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars discuss the characteristics that make animals and or people unique. They discuss what characteristics could they combine to make a truly unusual creature, such as an alien or fantasy animal. Students choose at least one...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Never-Before-Seen Creature

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Learners construct a never-before-seen creature in part of an analysis of societal injustices and discrimination. In this societal issues lesson, students create a creature called a Man-Droid as a study about the differences among...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Name Match: Dinosaurs

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this name match worksheet, students match up twelve creatures with their formal names by drawing a line from one to the other.