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Smarty Plants
Students examine plants and pollinators. In this plant biology lesson, students read The Power of Pollinators and identify the parts of the plant and the pollinators. Students design their own imaginary plants.
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Life Science Review for Grade 4
For this life science review for grade 4 worksheet, 4th graders answer 25 multiple choice questions in standardized test format about life science.
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The Koala Life Cycle
Students ask and answer questions about the koala life cycle while visiting the zoo. In this koala lesson plan, students review mammal characteristics, read books about koalas, and answer questions about koalas while at the zoo.
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Follow a Fish
Pupils choose a fish from anywhere within the Ocean Center. They observe it for a given time, recording its behavior. Students comprehend the concept that living things have individual characteristics that enable them to live in their...
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Amazon Food Chain
Explore food chains in the Amazon Rainforest using this resource. Learners discuss the predator vs. prey relationships in the food chain. Then, they create a food web to describe this relationship. This is a simple and effective way to...
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Prairie Predator and Prey
Fifth graders brainstorm a list of animals that live on the prairie, and classify them as predators and prey. They conduct interviews where they ask the animals what they need to look out for to sustain life on the prairie.
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Costa Rican Food Chain
Discuss the animals and plants in the rainforest food chain using this lesson. Learners talk about and do research on the top predators from the Costa Rican region and create a model of one of them in class. They also make a visual model...
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Creating a Pollinator Garden
Students build a pollination garden. In this pollination lesson, students read directions and build a pollinator garden that will produce flowering plants for pollinator organisms to use in pollination of other plants.
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Pollination Power
Students go out into the garden and observe pollinating animals through hand lenses. In this pollination lesson plan, students also discuss how animals carry seeds to create new plants elsewhere.
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Food Chain: what's for dinner?
Fourth graders identify where foods came from and sequence a food chain. In this food chain instructional activity, 4th graders define vocabulary related to food chains and order a food chain. Students follow the energy of a food chain....
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Tree Top Canopy Field Trip
Students visit the Greenheart Canopy Walkway. In this environmental lesson, students experience a coastal rain forest ecosystem. Students interact and explore the different layers of the rain forest.
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Radical Raptors
Students are introduced to raptors and their role in the environment. They identify three characteristics of raptors and list several types of raptors found in nature. They discuss their positive and negative experiences with raptors and...
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Science- Learning About Hibernation
In this hibernation worksheet, students answer 11 true or false questions and 5 fill in the blank questions regarding hibernation and the characteristics and habits of animals who hibernate.
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Holey Clamshells
Students analyze data to make hypotheses and conclusions regarding the predator/prey relationship between moon snail and surf clams.
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Marine Food Webs
Students examine how food webs illustrate the ways in which organisms depend on each other for energy and nutrients, and make food webs showing the feeding relationships among organisms encountered in the Gal??pagos coastal waters.
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Dinosaur Paleoecology: Determining the Diet of Ancient Animals
Students study dinosaur teeth and bones to determine the creatures diet, size and shape.
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Humane Science Projects
In this science worksheet, students examine the list of possible science projects. They look for the characteristics that set apart these ideas as humane.
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Become an Expert
Young scholars practice their researching techniques by preparing a presentation with little notice. In this information research lesson, students utilize the Internet to research one of several subtopics concerning panthers. Young...
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Butterfly Life Cycle
Students identify the stages in the butterfly life cycle. After completing a KWL chart, students participate in a brief lecture on the stages of the butterfly life cycle. Using reading books and Internet research, students complete an...
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Quiz
In this quiz worksheet, students, after researching and discussing different types of world-wide animals, determine the answers to ten key true and false questions.
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Just Ducky - a puzzle about ducks
In this ducks worksheet, students create a crossword puzzle about ducks. Students complete 29 blanks inside the crossword puzzle.
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Household Pests
Sixth graders discover the various habitat requirements for assorted household pests from ants to wasps. They conduct various activities including researching the life cycles moths, cockroaches, and mosquitoes
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CSI Clamshell Investigation
Students explore predator/prey relationships. They research information on moon snails and claims. Students draw conclusions from the data collected. They use math and graphing to determine if there is a relationship to the clam's size...
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Biodiversity Bird Hunt
Students examine the influence of biodiversity on human culture through the use of birds. They brainstorm words that come to mind when they think of human cultures. They describe ways that human culture and biodiversity are linked.