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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Amazing Animals: Challenge Activities (Theme 4)

For Teachers 2nd
For kids who have already mastered the basic concepts in the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on amazing animals, here's a packet of enrichment activities sure to provide food for fertile minds. 
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PreKinders

The Animals of the Umbrella

For Teachers Pre-K - K
If you're reading Jan Brett's The Umbrella, a presentation featuring the animals from the story is an excellent way to augment your lesson. Featuring gorgeous photographs of rainforest animals, as well as Spanish phrases and English...
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K12 Reader

Alliteration Animals

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Bees buzz, dogs dig, lion laze, and snakes slither! Use alliteration to create sentences about four different animals. 
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Curated OER

Famous Animals Quiz 1

For Students 9th - 12th
In this famous animals worksheet, students answer short answer questions identifying famous animals in books, movies, music, and more. Students complete 10 short answer questions.
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Curated OER

Test Your Research Skills: Animals 1

For Students 4th - 7th
Teach your class about the terms of venery, also known as collective nouns for groups of animals. For this exercise, pupils complete the gaps in 15 sentences with the correct collective noun for each group of animals. Ex: A _____ of...
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Curated OER

Daytime/Nighttime Animals

For Teachers K - 1st
For this Daytime/Nighttime Animals worksheet, students cut out 7 animals and past them in a section labeled "Daytime Animals" or "Nighttime Animals." Students may color in the pictures.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A World of Animals: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 10)

For Teachers K Standards
Provide extra support with this collection of animal-themed lessons. Early readers gain proficiency in high frequency words are and he, practice blending short vowel sounds, and substitute initial and final phonemes while creating...
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Curated OER

Label The Farm Animals

For Students 1st - 2nd
Your youngest Spanish learners will love coloring these fun, farmyard friends! They learn the words for rooster, pig, horse, donkey, sheep, duck, chicken, goat, and cow. Next, they color a picture of each animal and practice writing the...
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Baylor College

Need or Want?

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Even as adults it can be hard to distinguish needs from wants. Using pictures of common, everyday items, children make a pocket chart separating the objects they need from those that they want. Discuss their choices, explaining that...
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Curated OER

Bringing Animal Issues Into the Classroom

For Students K - 3rd
Here's an excellent packet of worksheets that delves into animal issues, and also covers the people who work in the community who help animals, such as veterinarians. There are thought-provoking questions associated with photographs of...
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Curated OER

Animals Are Different

For Students K - 1st
Each animal is different! Showcase animal characteristics through a series of questions based on simple images of well-known animals. This worksheet has learners examining 8 animals: rabbit, penguin, parrot, dolphin, bear, ostrich, duck,...
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Curated OER

Animals of Australia Word Search

For Students 5th - 6th
In this animals word search puzzle, students analyze 25 names of Australian animals and locate them in a word search puzzle. There is a graphic of the Australian continent.
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Curated OER

Interactive Rainforest Animals

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Research a rainforest animal to create a puppet and video. Emerging scientists research an animal, create a puppet and video, then present their findings as mixed media presentation. Great way to incorporate art, research, writing, and...
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PreKinders

The Animals in the Mitten

For Teachers Pre-K - K
If you need a visual aid for your lesson on The Animals in the Mitten by Jan Brett, consider a presentation that features pictures of each animal from the book. Each slide contains a line from the book with a vivid verb to help kids...
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Curated OER

Farm Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students investigate farm animals. In this farm animals lesson, students acquire basic farm vocabulary, identify farm animals, sing songs and create a farm animals books. Students use the SMART board to match animal pictures and words.
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Curated OER

Animals You Can See at the Zoo

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this zoo animal worksheet, students read facts about different zoo animals then answer questions regarding the different animals.
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Curated OER

Animals and Cosmetics Testing Lesson Plan

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students educate themselves as consumers. In this animal welfare lesson, students research the pros and cons of testing cosmetics on animals. Students develop alternatives for cosmetics testing and share their results with their peers.
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DK Publishing

Sorting Animals

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
How many legs does a lion have? What about a bird? How many legs does a snake have? A counting assignment prompts kindergartners to sort the animals by the amount of legs they have. After kids finish matching, they can color the animals...
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Curated OER

Forest Animals Word And Picture Cards

For Teachers K - 1st
In this animals worksheet, students examine 40 word and picture cards of 40 forest animals. There is a full color set and one black line set. There are no directions.
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Curated OER

Brazilian Animals

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars research the animals of Brazil. In this animal science lesson, students locate Brazil on a map and discuss the types of animals that can live in its tropical climate. They research a Brazilian Carnaval and see the roll the...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Idioms Quiz: Animals 2

For Students 5th - 6th
Kill two birds with one stone with a worksheet that not only gives practice using idioms but also has a technology link as well. Learners answer the 10 multiple choice questions of an online interactive quiz about the meaning of idioms...
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Curated OER

Farm Animals

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this picture association of farm animals learning exercise, students brainstorm and discuss various pictures of farm animals and then write each picture's name in the crossword puzzle by following the appropriate arrows. Students also...
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Curated OER

Farm Animals

For Students Pre-K - K
In this Language Arts instructional activity, students solve a crossword puzzle by writing in each pictures name. All of the pictures include farm animals.
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Twisty Noodle

Animal Missing Letters Book

For Teachers K - 2nd
Practice spelling and word recognition with a list of animals. Each animal shows a picture and name of the animal with one letter missing. The letters vary from consonants to vowels, and is a great spelling exercise.

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