Curated OER
4th Grade Life Science Unit: Animals
Fourth graders classify animals. For this animal kingdom lesson, 4th graders research animal habitats and behaviors. Students connect to a zoologist via SKYPE and learn about animal classification. Students blog about preserving animal...
Curated OER
Animal Behavior: Conditional If
In this conditional if practice worksheet, learners use the conditional if in 10 sentences that define the 10 animal behavior terms listed.
Curated OER
Animal Behavior Word Search
In this animal behaviors word puzzle worksheet, students examine the 16 adjectives and names in the word bank and locate them in the word search puzzle.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Chimps R Us: Speaking Chimp
Explore the vocabulary and vocalizations in chimpanzee communications and connect them to emotions. Develop and participate in a field study of animal behavior based on observations and interactions with dogs
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Crafty Seals Follow Tracking Device Signals
Article reports on seals who have learned how to use tracking devices that monitor fish migration to hunt for fish.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Animal Behaviors
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Barking, purring, and playing are just some of the ways in which dogs and cats behave. These are examples of animal behaviors. Animal behavior is any way that...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Utilizing Scientific Inquiry in Creative Writing
In a writing workshop activity, young scholars determine the specific dietary, habitat, and reproductive strategies of an organism through research and observation.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Chimps R Us: Understanding Travel Routes
Examine a map of the travel routes and evening nesting sites of two chimpanzees and create a travel route of your typical day. Describe the social enhancements that helped humans to evolve from foraging behavior to establish fixed...
PBS
Pbs Teachers:kakadu: Animal Behaviors
Discuss animal behaviors and relate them to human behaviors and predict how animals may behave based on their physical characteristics.