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New Titles to Draw Readers to Your Bookshelves

For Teachers K - 4th
These four books will help your pupils learn about animal habitats, community helpers, and the Titanic.
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Animal Habitats:

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars demonstrate knowledge of plants and animals within a habitat by dragging pictures into the appropriate habitat.
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Zoo Animal Experts

For Teachers K
As part of an exploration of zoo animals, kindergarteners conduct research on their favorite animal and compile their information. Learners write about their animal in a journal and create a trading card. The culminating activity is a...
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Habitat, What is That?

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars explore animal habitats. In this environmental stewardship lesson, students match animals to their habitats in a classroom activity. Young scholars also observe a firefly habitat and read Fireflies. Students create...
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Habitats Past and Present

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore the changes in animal habitats. In this ecosystem activity, students use the Internet to explore the changes in the environment since the 1700's. Students complete a Venn diagram to compare the differences in the animal...
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What Do They Eat?

For Students K - 1st
What does a monkey eat? How about a squirrel? Introduce your young scholars to different types of eaters in the animal kingdom with this cut-and-paste activity. Students assess 6 animals: a squirrel, a frog, a monkey, a seal, a dog, and...
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Massive Migrations

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Turn your learners into flocks of migratory birds for this fun lesson on animal migration. Prior to the activity, the teacher creates four different migration routes in the classroom or any available open space, labeling nesting...
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Ocean Friends Nametags

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars complete a number of activities to complete a study of ocean animals. They identify the animals, make nametags using appropriate colors, the animal habitats, and make a book by putting the pages in numerical order.
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I spy (Camouflaged Animals in Art!)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a picture of a camouflaged animal in its habitat. In this visual arts instructional activity, students look at Hans Hoffmann's painting A Hare in the Forest and discuss the animal's camouflage. They research their own...
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Collecting for Animal Shelters

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students investigate the needs of animal shelters. In this animal welfare lesson, students brainstorm the needs of a local animal shelter and implement a service plan to collect donations for an animal shelter.
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Animal Homes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how an animal's relationship to its habitat affect the animal's survival. They discuss animal habitats and the animal's relationship to that habitat through the food chain, life cycle, community, and balance of nature....
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Animal Adaptations

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners will participate in classroom discussions and visit a website to learn more about animals and how well (or poorly) they've adapted to satisfying their needs in their natural habitats. This will help move them toward the goal, in...
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Animal Groups

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore animal groups. In this animal science lesson, students use pictures from magazines and classify the animals into five categories. Students share why they categorized the animals the way they did.
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Animal Habitat Bar Graph

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this graphing worksheet, students examine a prepared bar graph and record which habitat their chosen animal lives in: desert, city, forest, ocean, prairie, or fresh water. There are no directions but it appears that a class could use...
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Marine & Aquatic Habitats Activities - Aquatic Animals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore importance of marine or aquatic habitats, and investigate habitat characteristics and conditions required by various organisms to ensure survival. They then select an animal to study and design an artificial habitat...
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Animals Jeopardy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This animal science PowerPoint enables students to review the habitats and body parts of animals by participating in a Jeopardy review game. This interactive review game includes illustrations of animals as well.
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Habitat Lessons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars complete various activities centering around habitats.  In this habitats instructional activity, students learn about the types of habitats, complete worksheets, read books about different habitats, draw a habitat and...
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Measuring Animal Sizes (and Relative Sizes in our Animal Environment)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners discover the actual size and weight of many insects and animals. For this biology lesson, students investigate animals and insects to determine their actual weight and size. In groups, learners create an animal or insect of...
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Animal Homes

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this animals worksheet, students click the correct animal, click the correct habitat, and click the animals that don't live in a given habitat. Students complete 3 activities.
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Adapting to Survive

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Life science and language arts come together in a passage about animal adaptation. After kids learn about how organisms adapt to conditions in their environments, they complete five reading comprehension questions based on context clues...
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African Savanna Habitat Diorama Craft

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Set the stage for a unit or lesson on the African savanna by creating a cute habitat diorama. Cheetahs, lions, zebras, and elephants are all present in a shoe-box-sized craft that requires your learners to color, cut, and paste. These...
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Animal Overpopulation Sheet

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Do your youngsters love puppies? A math worksheet about a dog having puppies promotes mathematical thinking. Once the puppies begin having puppies of their own, learners must calculate how many dogs there are all together. An inviting...
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Beasty Books

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students, after researching and organizing facts about selected animals habitats, diets, sizes and lives, create a visually appealing book in their animal's shape. They record information assessed from their research in the books.
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Animal Shelters - Sharing Our Knowledge

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students arrange a service project for a local animal shelter. In this animal shelter lesson, students collect items to be given to a local shelter. They learn how to estimate the monetary value of the donated items. They can do optional...

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