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76 resources with the concept elephants

The Elephant’s Child Audio

The Elephant’s Child

8th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewCuriosity may have killed the cat, but it gave the elephant a very useful nose! Listen to a retelling of Rudyard Kipling's "The Elephant's Child" that explains how the elephant's long nose came to be—and what a hungry crocodile had to do...
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Survey Methods Interactive

Survey Methods

10th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewHow many African elephants are on earth? How do scientists answer a question like that? An interactive resource explains a variety of survey methods and their advantages and disadvantages. It connects the need for a survey to...
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How Animals Use Sound to Communicate Interactive

How Animals Use Sound to Communicate

10th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewCommunication involves the visual, auditory, olfactory, and tactile senses. Scholars observe groups of animals communicating through multiple senses. They note and learn why different species use different senses depending on their...
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The Great Elephant Census Modeling Activity Activities & Project

The Great Elephant Census Modeling Activity

9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Designed
New ReviewThey say elephants never forget—and your class won't forget an insightful modeling activity either! Junior zoologists take part in a mock elephant census using the sample count and total count methods. The included materials provide...
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CSI Wildlife Interactive

CSI Wildlife

6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewCan DNA fingerprinting prevent the extinction of elephants? Young scientists learn about DNA fingerprinting before applying their knowledge to case studies of elephant poaching. The first case requires them to match the DNA from a tusk...
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Chicago Adventure, Part Four: Rodents of Unusual Size (And Other Mammals, Too) Video

Chicago Adventure, Part Four: Rodents of Unusual Size (And Other Mammals, Too)

7 mins 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
The Chicago Field Museum is home to some amazingly large creatures! The installment from a larger mammals playlist takes young biologists on a tour of the mammal curation labs. Experts explain the specimen collection in terms of their...
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Zoo Printables Collection
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Zoo Printables Collection

Pre-K - 2nd
Teach your class about zoo animals with the help of ABCmouse! This set of printables includes word searches, coloring pages, and more. Access these and thousands of other resources for preschool through 2nd grade at www.ABCmouse.com/Teachers. Create your FREE ABCmouse for Teachers account to visit the ABCmouse zoo—perfect for a virtual field trip!
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Killing Fields Worksheet

Killing Fields

6th
CCSS: Designed
Poaching elephants for ivory has long been an illegal trade in Africa. Learners read about the activity and efforts to stop elephant poaching. Then, readers respond to six multiple choice and four short answer questions.
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Reading Passage: Killing Fields Worksheet

Reading Passage: Killing Fields

6th
CCSS: Adaptable
Test scholars' reading comprehension skills with the help of a brief reading passage detailing a well-known poacher. The passage is followed by five questions—four multiple choice, one short answer. 
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What is It? Animals Song Video
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What is It? Animals Song

2 mins Pre-K - 2nd
What is it? It's a song about animals! Listen and watch while the singer reads and displays the lyrics and hand-drawn animations for a bird, dog, cow, and elephant. 
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My Mini Book About... Printables & Template

My Mini Book About...

1st - 4th
Elementary learners complete a mini book on polar bears. The resource contains four pages, each a quarter of a page, including one title page with a picture of a polar bear and a space for kids to write their names. 
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The Family Structure of Elephants Video

The Family Structure of Elephants

8 mins 7th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Elephant family relationships are a lot like ours. They cooperate in child rearing, have social structure, and practice coming-of-age events. Supported by fabulous photography, an elephant biologist shares 20 years of study with the...
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My Mini Book About … Printables & Template

My Mini Book About …

1st - 3rd
CCSS: Adaptable
This is one of several printable pages on which little life scientists can write out their research on an assigned animal. The highlighted page is for alligator research, but several other animal pages are included as other materials....
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How African Elephants Beat the Heat in the Desert Video

How African Elephants Beat the Heat in the Desert

3 mins 5th - 8th
How many days can a desert elephant go without water? I think the answer may surprise you! Take a brief journey to an African desert to learn more about the elephant, its crucial role in desert life, and its innate ability to find water...
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Elephant Ears-African Or Asian Lesson Plan

Elephant Ears-African Or Asian

2nd - 5th
Students investigate the concept of African and Asian elephants. They conduct research while comparing and contrasting the two different types of elephants. The lesson plan has some background information for the teacher to use. Students...
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Elephant Procession Lesson Plan

Elephant Procession

1st - 6th
Learners research the people, customs, and traditions of Sri Lanka. They discover the importance of elephants in Sri Lankan history in the areas of warfare, field work, and transportation. They then produce a highly ornate picture of an...
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Elephant Mask Template Lesson Plan

Elephant Mask Template

1st - 3rd
In this coloring worksheet, students color, cut and decorate an elephant mask. The mask may be used to allow students to act out a story with an elephant, discuss the characteristics of elephants, or to use for a party. Students practice...
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Where is Shirley the Elephant? Lesson Plan

Where is Shirley the Elephant?

K - 3rd
Young animal lovers engage in a lesson that's all about elephants. They access an elephant sanctuary website and read a story about Shirley the elephant. They perform a series of activities based upon that story, and also study about the...
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An Elephant's Life Worksheet

An Elephant's Life

3rd - 4th
Here is an interesting worksheet that's all about elephants. In it, learners answer ten true-or-false questions about elephants, then respond to ten questions that come from a story about Daisy, the circus elephant. The questions should...
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Was it Fair for the Elephant's Child? Lesson Plan

Was it Fair for the Elephant's Child?

1st - 3rd
Students use literature to explore ideas of justice. They discuss what makes something fair or unfair. They draw and explain cartoons that tell the story.
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"Weighing the Elephant" Lesson Plan

"Weighing the Elephant"

K - 12th
Can your class solve the problem presented in the Chinese folktale, "Weighing the Elephant?" Read your class the description before having them attempt to solve the problem. After they've come up with an answer (or attempted to!), finish...
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Animal Survival Presentation

Animal Survival

6th - 8th
Viewers of this PowerPoint are introduced to endangered and extinct animals. They discover why apes, elephants, pandas, polar bears, rhinoceri, and marine turtles are threatened. Finally, ways that humans have and can make a difference...
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Color Me: The Elephant Worksheet

Color Me: The Elephant

Pre-K - 2nd
Join the herd! Teach your young Spanish language learners the Spanish word for elephant, and have them color the picture provided. You could also introduce other basic Spanish vocabulary like sol, tierra, and agua. 
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Go to Sleep, Gecko! Lesson Plan

Go to Sleep, Gecko!

Pre-K
Students experience a folktale. They explore elephants, geckos and fireflies in folktale. Students practice the alphabet or numbers and guess what a picture is when they remove a number or letter of the alphabet from the picture.
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