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Spiders

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students read books and make art projects dealing with spiders. In this spiders lesson plan, students learn about the different characteristics of spiders through listening, answering questions, and making spiders.
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Plant Galls

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study what a plant gall is and the different types that there are.  In this plant lesson students examine what causes galls and how to prevent them.
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Let's Create An Ecosystem

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders create ecosystems in a jar which they observe over the course of the school year.
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From Caterpillars to Butterflies: Life Cycles

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to a read aloud of the Eric Carle's, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and talk about the life cycle of caterpillars. They draw illustrations of the life cycle and compare it with the life cycle of another familiar...
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Aquatic Food Webs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners discuss producers, herbivores, omnivores, carnivores, and decomposers and analyze the difference between food chains and food webs. They participate in a food web yarn game, examining what can effect the breakdown of the web.
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Home Sweet Home

For Teachers K - 4th
Students examine the animals that live in trees. They identify their sounds, footprints and droppings. They draw pictures of the animals as well.
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Life Cycle

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine and compare the life cycles of a variety of different animals. They analyze photos of animals and discuss any unique body parts and why those parts function they way they do. Next, they observe mealworms and...
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Wacky Water Critters

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students visit a local creek or stream. They collect water samples from the creek and observe and sort the "water critters" they find in the sample, observing smaller organisms under a microscope if necessary. They identify each organism...
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Night Hike

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Learners explore Upham Woods at night and investigate about the special adaptations of nocturnal animals. They identify three nocturnal animals and how they are adapted to the night. Students explain what night vision is and how it works.
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Vocabulary definitions

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this vocabulary words worksheet, students read a fable and then they match the vocabulary words from the fable to their definitions. Students complete this for 8 words.
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Spiders are Special

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize that spiders are important natural predators. They work in small groups with simple field guides to identify as many of their spiders as they can.
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Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars investigate the concept of reading while focusing upon using "Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home" for comprehension exercises. They read the story and use the rhyming with the drill and practice technique of teaching....
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Fun with Flowers

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students make observations of flowers. In this life science lesson, students look at flowers, then draw and color their favorite flowers. Lesson includes extension activities.
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A Planet Full of Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students study animals and practice classifying them through observation activities. In this animal classification lesson, students complete a KWL chart about animals. Students then sort pictures of animals into chart categories based on...
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Jewel of the Earth

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students investigate several organisms, set sticky traps to collect them, and attempt to identify and classify them using a variety of sources. The origins of the organisms are traced and their adaptive features examined.
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Investigating comparative biodiversity of wetland and schoolyard sites

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in an activity dealing with the environment.
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EPA Pesticides Reduction

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Young scholars examine the effects of pesticides on the environment and bugs. They answer questions as an assessment.
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Elementary Animal Classification

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate eight basic animal groups, and identify the different groups through knowledge of animal characteristics, changes, and life cycles of each group.
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What Makes up an Ecosystem?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders design posters of working ecosystems using pictures from magazines. They label autotrophic, heterotropic, or saprotrophic energy sources, and identify predators and prey.
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Rain Forest Animals

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars create a book about animal species found only in the Amazon rain forest. They find one species to represent each letter of the alphabet, and write each name on a different piece of paper. They illustrate each page with an...
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Development in Drosophila melanogaster

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the least familiar aspect of development in Drosophila melanogaster; the development of the pupa. Students isolate and culture "First-day" pupae. They are dissected daily to study the progressive developmental changes.
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The Ant Attack

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders observe the daily activity of an ant farm. Through observations and journal writing, they gather data concerning the daily activities of the ants. Students use their observations to predict the effect of environmental...
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Poisonous Spiders! Reading Comprehension

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage about poisonous spiders before answering 10 fill in the blank questions. They demonstrate their reading comprehension through their answers.
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Eyewitness Accounts

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars role-play to show the eyewitness accounts of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. In this volcanic eruption lesson plan, students act as reporters, eyewitnesses, and scientists to dramatize the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. They...

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