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Printables
Twisty Noodle

Animal Action Cards Book

For Teachers K - 2nd
Can you stomp like a elephant? Or slither like a snake? Use these animal cards to get your little monkeys moving! Each card features an illustration and action word that matches the animal.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mystery, Myth, and Wonder: The White Elephant

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the role of the elephant in the culture of Thailand through many different class activities based on a PBS program "The White Elephants of Thailand with Meg Ryan". Students also look at the impact of technology on...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Matching Animal Names and Pictures

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this early childhood reading worksheet, students cut out the 6 animal pictures and paste them onto the appropriate animal words.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Zoo Animal Word Search Worksheet

For Students 3rd
In this zoo animal word search instructional activity, 3rd graders locate 17 names of animals that would reside in the zoo. They read the name of another animal upon completion of the puzzle.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

African Animal Farm

For Students Pre-K - K
In this Language Arts worksheet, learners read the names of five African animals. Students complete five sentences by filling in the correct animal. Learners also draw their favorite African animal.
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Lesson Plan
ESL Kid Stuff

Zoo Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Let's go to the zoo! Take a pretend trip to the zoo with a lesson plan about animals that live at the zoo. Kids sing, match animals, practice animal sounds, and read about Sammy the Snake's birthday party.
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Activity
Curated OER

Animal Parade

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In this activity, students will work with positional words, reinforcing their understanding of the terms; left, right, before, after, between, first, and last.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Put the Elephant First

For Teachers K
Students recreate the order of animals they read about in a book. For this relative positions lesson, students color and cut out pictures of animals in the book. Sudents glue these onto construction paper and line up like the animals in...
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Alliteration: It’s a Zany Zoo!

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Elephants eat and cheetahs chase in this zany zoo! Kids survey a list of ten animals before adding in an adjective and verb for each to form an alliterative phrase or sentence.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Primary PE lesson

For Teachers K - 1st
Students participate in dances to a music CD to practice making a conga line formation. They then use locomotor movement shown on an animal picture card, moving to the music.
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Lesson Plan
Learning to Give

Humphrey The Lost Whale

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
The children's book Humphrey the Lost Whale tells an amazing tale of a community joining together for a common cause. Read this book with your class, making connections between the events in the story and personal experiences of young...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Name Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students identify animals and their babies. In this animal name lesson, students come up with other animals whose babies have the same name. Students use the names of animals and their babies to write poems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Parts of the Body and Colors (Animals)

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this animal worksheet, students analyze four color pictures of animals. Students answer 10 questions about the parts of the body and colors of the animals. Students choose the correct describing phrase from three choices. This page...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Parts of the Body and Colors (Animals)

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this animals worksheet, students complete 10 sentences by writing the letter of the correct phrase in the blank spaces. There are 3 choices for each sentence; all pertain to parts of animal bodies.
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Worksheet
Starfall

Short E - Classification (Animal, Thing)

For Students K - 2nd
For this language arts worksheet, students practice classifying the nouns into the right category. They also use the pictures as clues to meaning.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Wild Animals in the World

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this wild animals learning exercise, students answer multiple choice map questions, choose the correct animal names for the pictures, and more. Students complete 4 activities.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

African Animal Word Search Puzzle

For Students 4th - 5th
In this word search worksheet, students find and circle the names of the African animals within the word search puzzle. Students find the following words: giraffe, elephant, gazelle, wildebeest, cheetah, hippopotamus, impala, lion,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Count the Animals

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Primary graders count the number of pigs, horses, cows, elephants, and giraffes pictured (1-5). They write the numeral that represents how many of each are shown in boxes labeled with single examples of the animal. In addition to writing...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Personal Pronouns

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this personal pronouns worksheet, students read pronouns, check if sentences are right or wrong, choose the correct pronoun, and more. Students complete 4 activities.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Size Shapes Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students investigate how size affects large and small animals differently. In this animal lesson plan, students determine how size affects different animals by constructing their own animal out of marshmallows. Once students create...
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Lesson Plan
August House

Anansi and the Tug o' War

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Combine art, math, language arts, drama, and delicious Jell-o with a instructional activity based on the African folktale Anansi and the Tug o' War. Kids make predictions and discuss plot points of the story before joining in...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animal Parade

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students begin the activity by coloring animals on the beginning and end pages. They are to put the other pages in order based on the animals place in the parade.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Getting To Know All About You: the Endangered Species Introduction

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars participate in a game designed to familiarize themselves with their classmates and introduce a unit on endangered species. They each have an endangered species name taped to their back and must determine the species name...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Deep Jungle: New Frontiers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study the world's rainforests for unusual plant and animal species. They explore how biologists use infrared cameras to explore jungles.