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Introduce Vocabulary: Animal Tracks (Dorros)

For Teachers K - 3rd
What kind of animal made those tracks? Explore some wild vocabulary in context as learners listen to Arthur Dorros' book, Animal Tracks. Before your read this, introduce the new words like bother, dam, reed,...
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Fossil Formation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A fossil is worth a thousand words! Individuals craft their own amber fossil of an insect in addition to molds and casts of seashells. A third activity takes the lesson plan a notch higher: Learners measure stride lengths between tracks...
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Making Footprints

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An interesting way of looking at footprints and tracks. Pupils step into a tray of water, and make footprints of various kinds on butcher paper. They tip toe, run, hop, and walk. Then, they take a close look at the differences between...
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Science Jeopardy - The Earth Sciences

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The earth sciences are the focus for this Jeopardy-style review game. Categories include geology, space, scientific investigation, meteorology, and oceanography. Diagrams and pictures are involved with most of the questions, making this...
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Making Tracks

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students cast animal tracks on a field trip. They split up to capture tracks from different areas and use plaster of Paris to mold to the footprint. They bring casts back to class, create a negative mold and paint it black.
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Identifying Animal Tracks

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this identifying animal track learning exercise, learners look at the pictures of the animals and connect the animals with its tracks.
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Animal Tracks

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this animal tracks instructional activity, students look at the pictures of the animals, then match the five carnivores to the correct track pattern.
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Quizzes: Animal Tracks

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this science worksheet, young scholars fill in the circles next to pictures of 11 animals with the number of toes on each animal's foot. Answers are provided on the page.
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Neat Feet

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students view a video and discuss different kinds of feet found in the animal kingdom. They make prints using paint, rubber stamps and their own feet and then measure and compare the tracks.
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Animal Tracks

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this animal tracks worksheet, students match a set of animal pictures to their tracks, 5 animals total. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Animal Tracks

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this animal tracks activity, students draw lines to match pictures of animals to their tracks. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Animal Tracks Matching Worksheet

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this animal tracks worksheet, students match pictures of animal tracks that are located at the bottom of the page with the animal pictures at the top of the page. They see a cardinal, a fox, a fawn, and a fox.
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Biodiversity in Our Watershed

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create a database of animals and birds in the area in which they live. They use molded prints to make a cast of an imprint from a specific animal. They identify and research animals and prepare an outline for an oral...
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The Story that Tracks Tell

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders observe and investigate animal tracks. They draw prints for local animals and switch with another student to guess the animal, identify animal tracks in a nearby wood lot, create plaster casts of the tracks, and write a...