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Lesson Plan
Science 4 Inquiry

At the Top: A Bald Eagle's Diet

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Bald eagles are opportunistic predators and eat fish as well as raccoons and other mammals. Pupils learn about bald eagle diets through a simple simulation and videos. They collect and analyze data to understand the adaptability of this...
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PPT
Curated OER

Animal Nutrition - Variations, Adaptations, & Regulation

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Colorful pictures and graphics make this a visually-appealing presentation on animal nutrition. Be aware that two of the sixteen slides include blank graphic organizers, so you will need to find the other existing version of this...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animal Keynote Report

For Teachers 4th
Learners produce a research project on an animal. Using the Internet, they find pictures and information about animals. They are also given a list of items that should be covered in their report, including the appearance of the animals,...
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Handout
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Curated OER

Animal Adaptations

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Young scientists explore the animal kingdom from the safety of the classroom with this short research project. After first choosing an animal, children use the Internet to discover where it lives, what it eats, and how it has adapted to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Chain Game

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore animal characteristics by participating in a role-play activity. In this food chain lesson, students discuss the order of life and how animals must eat other animals to survive. Students conduct a food chain game in...
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PPT
Curated OER

Animal Nutrition, Variations, Adaptations & Regulation

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Information about digestion of various food components is given in this PowerPoint. The diets of herbivores and carnivores are compared, and there are many diagrams giving details of their digestive system specializations. The labelled...
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PPT
Curated OER

Tigers: An Endangered Species

For Students 2nd - 7th
Facts about tigers are packed into a PowerPoint presentation about tigers. The presentation includes great photographs and accompanying text regarding the habitats, diet, lifespan, and physical attributes of tigers. Very interesting!
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Skulls Tell It All

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Skulls tell it all, and with this lesson plan, you will tell it all to your class! Youngsters view animal skulls, analyzing the shape of teeth and the placement of the eye sockets. They associate these adaptations with the types of food...
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Activity
American Museum of Natural History

Super Teeth

For Students 6th - 12th
A brief comparison of human teeth versus animal teeth sets the stage for two worksheets. Scholars match a picture of a tooth-filled mouth to the animal to which it belongs and coloring pages featuring a different animal and informative...
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Lesson Plan
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Curated OER

Endangered Species Animal Masks

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars research endangered animals. In this animal science lesson, students visit suggested websites to learn more about endangered animals and create animal masks. Young scholars need glue, cardstock, string and feathers to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Teeth and Eating

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners conduct online research of different animals and their diet. In this animal lesson, students identify the various types of diets each animals has and their teeth. This research is done on the Internet.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Mazes: Which Animal Ate this Twig?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this logic and problem solving worksheet, students find the animal that ate the twig by completing a maze. Students begin at the picture of shredded tree bark and trace a path through an easy maze puzzle.
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Lesson Plan
Cheetah Outreach

Nutrition

For Teachers 4th - 6th
What can teeth tell us about an animal's diet? Learners examine animal skulls to determine what their canines, incisros, premolars, and molars reveal. 
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Interactive
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Niche Partitioning and DNA Metabarcoding

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What is DNA metabarcoding? Show your biology class the latest method for studying biodiversity in an ecosystem with a fun, informative interactive. Individuals examine the animal species that compete for vegetation, then learn how their...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Animals and Their Food

For Students Pre-K - K
In this animal food matching learning exercise, students draw a line from the cow, giraffe, and bird to the food picture that goes with it in another column.
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PPT
Curated OER

Animal Groups

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This animal science PowerPoint allows students to investigate types of animal groups. The slides contain clear information about herbivores and carnivores and explains their diet. This is a great way to introduce animal groups to students.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Animal Rights--Discussion Questions

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this animal rights worksheet, students read and answer the discussion questions related to animal rights. Students answer 7 questions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Tooth for a Tooth

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners classify mammals as carnivores or herbivores. They look at a set of pictures of animal skulls, observing the shape and size of the teeth, and identify herbivores and carnivores.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Meet the Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
The class will examine a series of live or stuffed animals in order to learn how different animals survive in distinctive habitats. As they examine each animal, they will be asked a series of critical thinking questions geared at getting...
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Activity
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National Park Service

News Bearly Fit to Print

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
There are an average of three human fatalities by bears in North America every year, which is low when you compare it to the 26 killed by dogs and the 90 killed by lightning annually. The lesson encourages researching human-bear...
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Organizer
Curated OER

Animal Research

For Students 5th - 8th
In this animals worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by choosing an animal and then researching information such as anatomy, diet, enemies, habitat, and reproduction.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

What Do Animals Eat?

For Students K - 1st Standards
In this animal diets worksheet, students identify animals and food. Students then draw a line to the food that the 4 animals eat.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Teeth and Eating

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students examine pictures of different animals and decide if they eat meat and/or plants. They inspect models of pairs of upper and lower teeth and discuss which teeth are most useful for cutting grass and tearing meat.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

What's For Dinner?

For Students 2nd - 6th
In this animal diet worksheet, students define herbivore, omnivore, and carnivore. Then students label pictures of animals as either herbivores, carnivores, or omnivores. This worksheet has 3 short answer and 6 matching questions.