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Migration Headache

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
During this game, kids become migratory shorebirds and fly among wintering, nesting, and stopover habitats. If they do not arrive at a suitable habitat on time, they do not survive. Catastrophic events are periodically introduced that...
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Water Around Us

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a collage of human land use activities around a body of water. Students evaluate the effects of different kinds of land use on wetland habitats, and create a list of pros and cons for each land use.
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Drama in the Refuge

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write and perform dramatic presentations about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. They select formats from puppets, plays, improvisational skits, or screened silhouette.
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The Incredible Journey

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Divide your school gym into breeding grounds and non-breeding grounds so that your zoologists can play a game simulating the seasonal migration of shorebirds. Players pick one of the included game cards and follow its directions, which...
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Backyard Birds: Who's Who Out There?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice techniques of field observation and data-gathering while studying local bird population, describe ecosystem as complex combination of elements, which can affect or be affected by each other, and determine effects of...
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Earthworms and Making a Wormery

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore the environment by researching insects. In this earthworm lesson, students utilize soil and plexiglass to build a see through wormery in which students can observe the worms at work. Students identify the benefits of...
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Animal Life Histories Derived From Morphology

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn the mechanisms of natural selection by deducing information from the physical appearance of the animal.
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Grizzly Habitat

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students find areas on playground where they would live if they were a grizzly bear, share their reasons for their choice, talk about habitat areas, and choose their sites again, based upon new information.
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Ocean in a Bottle

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create an enclosed ocean in a bottle and add different pollutants to explore the effects of pollution on the environment.