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Animal Communication

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students use three nonfiction selections in order to investigate the concept of animal communication. They use a graphic organizer for the information as it is gathered in the reading.
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Curated OER

Word Search: Find These Unusual-Sounding Animals

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this word search worksheet, students will find and circle the unusual sounding names of 19 different animals. Realistic, color pictures accompany the name of each animal.
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Curated OER

Animal Sorting & Matching

For Students 5th
In this animal sorting worksheet, 5th graders first match animal pictures with their names and a fun fact. Students must then fill in 15 blanks based on information given on the matching cards.
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Farm Animals And Food They Eat

For Teachers K
Students identify farm animals by the sounds they make and draw the animal and type of food they eat. For this farm animals lesson plan, students read the book Barnyard Song and view baggies of animal food.
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Call of the Wild: Grades 5-8

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Teach animal lovers how to decipher frog speak. Classes learn about the different calls using audio clips. They then imitate the calls as a group and make a recording. The challenge is to try to recognize individual sounds—can they do it?
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Basic Animal Behavior in Domesticated Animals

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students investigate animal behavior, examining the nervous system and the physiology of the brain and the fight or flight response. They simulate animal behaviors and discuss the difference between an instinct and a behavior.
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Animal Habitats

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore animal lifestyles by researching their characteristics. In this animal habitat activity, students read the story Over in the Jungle and analyze the animal illustrations in the book. Students create clay animal characters...
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Animal Facts

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders list five facts about an assigned animal, and complete a bird beak activity, using pliers, blunt pencils, forceps, clothespins, and a spoon that represent different types of beaks; students complete chart showing best type...
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Guess Who?

For Teachers K - 1st
Getting ready for a lesson on animal adaptations can be a  lot of fun. Kindergartners will go on an egg hunt. Once they have collected all the eggs, they will open them up to reveal an image of an animal. Each pupil will act out their...
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Pen Pals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils discuss the sounds that different animals make. Then they play a listening game, using the animal sounds they've discussed.
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Pooper Scooper

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Science Students build a pooper scooper tool that helps them clean up after a dog without getting their hands dirty or their noses too close. They research the diseases that can be transported through animal waste and work in teams to...
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Volume and Amplitude | UNC-TV Science

For Students 5th - 12th Standards
Future physicists pump up the volume while discovering the world of sound waves. Group members learn about the qualities of sound waves, the relationship between energy and sound volume, and the definition of amplitude while viewing an...
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Seeing and Hearing Game

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students study the animal senses. In this animal senses lesson, students act out animal movements and make animal sounds. They use "see and hear" cards to play a game in which they find another child with a either "make a sound or...
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Grammar: Verbs

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this sounds of animals worksheet, students investigate fifteen different animal sounds and then match them up to the animals that make them.
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Animal Classification

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Present information about the classification of animals. After participating in the teacher-led discussion about scientific names, small groups devise their own way of classifying everyday objects present in the classroom, developing...
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Worksheet
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Types of Behavior: Animal Behavior Research

For Students 9th - 12th
How does one determine what influences animal behavior; Is it nature or nurture? After a short reading explaining different types of conditioning and other learned behaviors, scholars examine six scenarios to determine whether the...
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Study Jams! Light

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Let there be light in your classroom with a video that explains that light travels in waves, the electromagnetic spectrum contains seven colors, and the color of an object depends on which light waves it reflects and absorbs. With...
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Organizer
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Animal Challenge 2

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this pitch instructional activity, students examine a list of 6 animals. Students record the size of each animal as big or small and the sounds they make as high or low.
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Interactive
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Explorit's Nature Sounds Quiz #1

For Students 4th - 5th
In this nature sounds activity, students take a quiz where they answer multiple choice questions about nature sounds and what animals make the sounds. Students answer 6 questions.
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Animal Challenge 1

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this animal ears worksheet, students write about how animal's cone shaped ears help them survive. Students write 1 paragraph.
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Learning About Sounds

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students determine the sources of sound. In this auditory discrimination lesson, students listen to animal noises and various other noises. As students listen, they identify the sounds that they hear.
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Games on Echolocation

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Get a little batty with life science! This fun simulation game replicates how bats use echolocation to hunt moths in their native Hawaiian habitat. After creating blind folds and discussing some basic principles of echolocation, students...
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Travis The Train Visits the Farm in Spring

For Students K - 6th
Travis the Train has made his way to a spring time farm and your special ed class gets to meet all his new friends! Each colorful page features an image of a baby animal and the sound they most commonly make. Print out this book or show...
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Animal Report

For Students 5th - 7th
In this animal worksheet, students research the basic characteristics of an animal and then answer eight questions pertaining to their animal. Students identify the environment in which the animal lives, how the animal finds food,...

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