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Explore the Animal World
Third graders use a variety of resources to do research on an animal. Their final project is a graphic organizer for display and an informative multimedia slide show.
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Animal Adaptions
Students explore the idea that adaptations are necessary for the survival of a species. They gather books, magazines, and identified web sites to pick three species of animals, describe the type of environment in which each of the...
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Are you an Animal Sleuth?
Students define and identify both wild and domestic animals as well as mammals and non-mammals. In this animal safety instructional activity, students distinguish between animals that can carry rabies from those that cannot. Students use...
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African Savanna Habitat Diorama Craft
Set the stage for a unit or lesson on the African savanna by creating a cute habitat diorama. Cheetahs, lions, zebras, and elephants are all present in a shoe-box-sized craft that requires your learners to color, cut, and paste. These...
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Learning to Resist: Watercolor
Consider wax resist drawings as a way to bridge art and science. Learners view, discuss, and practice drawing insects or animals using waxy crayons. They pay attention to the creature's features as they create images with watercolor and...
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What's Wild? What's Not?
Students complete activities to differentiate between wild and domestic animals. In this animal types lesson, students bring stuffed animals to class and pictures from magazines or newspaper. Students put their stuffed animals in a box...
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A Planet Full of Animals
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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Parent and Baby Lookalikes
Young scholars research baby animals, their special names and the vocabulary to describe their relative sizes through discussion, listening to a Salish story, looking at pictures, and creative artwork . They will also explore the...
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Burs in Your Furs
Students explore the concept of animal welfare. In this wild animal habitats activity, students discover the work of wild animals in sustaining their habitats as they participate in a classroom simulation. Students discuss how wildlife...
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What Is Our Plan?
Pupils identify ways to handle pet emergencies. In this animal welfare lesson, students create a list of top ten pet emergency planning tips and checklist. Pupils construct an "Pet Emergency Kit."
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Pick a Pet
Students construct a pictograph of favorite pets. In this pets and graphing activity, students discuss their favorite pet and use animal magazines to find their favorite pets and cut them out. Students create a pictograph using the...
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Animal Adaptations
students in groups to work on bulletin board, making a list of animal adaptations. They write an example of each body covering and find pictures of animals with these coverings. They mount pictures and label the covering. They should be...
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Animal Babies on the Farm
Students identify different farm animals and match farm animal babies to their parent(s). They recognize more specific gender terminology for farm animals.
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Zoo Welcomes Baby Animals
Learners engage in activities to gain a better understanding of endangered animals. In these animal lessons, students use vocabulary and comprehension skills to gain a better understanding of endangered animals. They also watch video...
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A Wild Family Album!
Learners create a scrapbook style family album for a selected animal. They complete an interactive Internet activity on research reports, fill out a graphic organizer, diagram a food web, and complete their scrapbook that includes...
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I spy (Camouflaged Animals in Art!)
Students create a picture of a camouflaged animal in its habitat. In this visual arts lesson, students look at Hans Hoffmann's painting A Hare in the Forest and discuss the animal's camouflage. They research their own animal to...
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Out of This World
Fifth graders animate their own planets. In this solar system lesson, 5th graders use smartphones and the software, GoKnow Sketchy, to create images for presentations on their created planets that appear to be animated when played...
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Wild or Tame?
Students explore wild and domestic animals. In this animal lesson, students define wild and domestic. Students are shown pictures of animals and choose if they are wild or domestic. Students name pets and name their wild counterpart....
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Cheetah Challenges
High schoolers research the problems that cheetahs are facing in the wild. In this biology lesson, students discuss how animal rehabilitation works. They write blogs about it and comment on everyone's post.
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Animals in Greece
This instructional activity is uncomplicated, consisting of a brief introduction to the Grecian landscape and climate, and then having individuals choose an animal in Greece to research. The youngsters display their information gathered...
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Animal Classification
Second graders identify characteristics of and group animals by the five categories of vertebrates.
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Disappearing Act
Crafty critters are camouflaged to escape predators, and crafty science pupils can construct a camouflage demonstration. They work with a partner to show that as a camouflaged animal moves, it becomes more visible.
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Solar System
Explore the solar system in detail, from it's origins to its components. Visual data gathered by actual space missions has been used to create the images and animations on each page of this stellar electronic book about the solar...
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Galaxies by KIDS DISCOVER
An e-magazine with kid-friendly informational text, vibrant visuals, and activities about galaxies.