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A New View

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students illustrate and write a story. In groups, students brainstorm lists of animals and objects. They create a storyboard from the point of view of a chosen animal or object. After students discuss life from different perspectives,...
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Making Sense of Unusual Findings

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars work on the development of observation skills and seeing how they can be used in different contexts. The lesson is good for helping the beginner and novice, along with encouraging and reminding the expert observer of right...
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How Much Land Does It Take To Produce Your Food?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars calculate the amount of land required to produce the food eaten by an individual for one year and compare the amount of land required to produce animal versus plant products. They use calorie counting resources to compile...
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Awesome Animals

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students collect data from classmates about their favorite animal. They use the ClarisWorks graphing program to enter data, graph results, and interpret data.
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Animals Abound Pre/Post Assessment

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students prepare for or evaluate their experiences in learning about animal persistence. This is part of a multi-segmented unit on animal living, adaptation, and survival.
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How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders view an animated picture book at a Web site. The picture book illustrates each step in planting and growing a garden. They design how-to books showing the process. They will draw a picture and write a caption for each step.
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Got the Whole World in My Hands

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students review factors that threaten survival of different species. this instructional activity is part of a multi-segmented unit on animal survival.
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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.
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A Lion's Lair

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students evaluate the likelihood that a particular animal lived in a particular habitat. They research and illustrate lion habitats to determine whether lions were likely to have lived in ancient Greece.
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Reading Faster with Wild Thing

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice one-minute oral readings to increase their speed and fluency. They review several reading strategies, and then they read orally with a partner. The partner times their reading with a stopwatch and tracks their time on...
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Keeping Warm

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create a collage investigating different strategies animals use for keeping warm. This lesson is part of a multi-segmented unit on animal survival.
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Come With Me To Africa

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners are introduced to the geography of the continent of Africa. They conduct Internet research, explore maps and identify animal species and a variety of human cultures for a sampling of African countries. Students create graphs,...
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The Changing countryside

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students draw a poster showing the costs and benefits of opening up Britain's farmers to the global marketplace. They use a piece of A4 or A3 paper in landscape. Students draw a vertical line to split the page in two. On the left...
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Baga Drum

For Teachers K - 6th
Pupils examine a Baga Drum in order to explore the history of the Baga people of West Africa. In this art history lesson, students recognize figures used in Baga Drum design that represent aspects of Baga culture. They also design and...
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Fun Food Faces

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars create fun food faces. In this animal shaped food instructional activity, students use food to create faces on a bagel or rice cake. They can eat their masterpieces when they have finished.
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Animals from Afar

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students visualize the scope of the Roman empire by illustrating the geographic origins of various imported animals. They study how exotic animals were imported into Rome from the farthest regions of the empire.
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Picture Scramble: Plant, Butterfly and Duck

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this science and visual discrimination worksheet, students examine images of a plant, butterfly and duck. Next to each picture is the same image which has been divided into 9 pieces and scrambled. Students place the numbers 1 through...
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Wild Horses

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What a terrific resource! This presentation focuses on wild horses and what should be done about them. While the questions found in the presentation focus on grammar and comprehension, this set of slides could do so much more. Learners...
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Martin Luther King Internet Photo Timeline

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students create a photographic timeline of the events in the life of Martin Luther King Jr. Working in small groups, they use internet research to find photos documenting the major events of his life. Their photos are printed and glued...
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The Whiskey Rebellion and the New American Republic

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the implications of the passage of the Whiskey Tax of 1791. In this Whiskey Rebellion lesson plan, students listen to their instructor present a lecture regarding the details of the rebellion. Students respond to...
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HOW BIG IS A BLUE?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students compare the lengths of whales using different lengths of rope. They illustrate one whale in life-size proportion.
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Looking for a Walrus

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students sing and role-play the song "Looking for a Walrus" to explore walrus adaptations.
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Can Chimps Talk?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view a video about chimps and language. They work together to role play the roles of researchers and chimps in an experiment. They agree on a way to live together and each group be treated fairly.
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Dissecting Crickets

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students dissect a cricket and note the three body regions, wings, and legs. They observe the yellow malphigian tubes and remove them. They dissect the esophagus and analyze the heart for respiratory rates and heart beat rates.

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