Virginia Department of Education
Classification of Organisms
Searching for the perfect indoor/outdoor activity that allows class members the opportunity to learn about organism classification? Here, pupils research organisms and categorize them according to domain and kingdom over the course...
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Using Informational Text Features and Learning Freaky Frog Vocabulary
What kind of text features help children build a strong vocabulary? Class members use text features such as headers to unpack new vocabulary words. They create vocabulary journals in which they will write what they think the definition...
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3-D Figures Part 1
Elementary schoolers explore 3-D shapes. They transition from thinking of shapes as only 2-D. Pupils read Cinderella as a launching activity for their upcoming adventure, and explore a new world of 3-D shapes in this introductory lesson.
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Protect the Primates
Students make posters about saving the primates. In this primates lesson plan, students discuss primates and environmental changes and make posters with pictures about saving primates.
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Animals A to Z: Meerkat
In this meerkat worksheet, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of a meerkat and its particular attributes.
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Animals A to Z: Narwhal
In this narwhal activity, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of a narwhal and its particular attributes.
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Animals A to Z: Octopus
In this octopus instructional activity, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of an octopus and its particular attributes.
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Animals A to Z: Penguin
In this penguin learning exercise, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of a penguin and its particular attributes.
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Animals A to Z: Porcupine
In this porcupine worksheet, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of a porcupine and its particular attributes.
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Animals A to Z: Quoll
In this quoll worksheet, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of a quoll and its particular attributes.
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Animals A to Z: Turkey
In this turkey worksheet, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of a turkey and its particular attributes.
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Animals A to Z: Sea Turtle
For this sea turtle worksheet, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of a sea turtle and its particular attributes.
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Creating New Animals
Students navigate an interactive web site to create imaginary animals. They research one or more animals. They create one page report with pictures. They discuss attributes of animals they have researched.
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Animals and Me
Students develop skills needed to use the Internet. They demonstrate scrolling, links, and the back arrow. Students read a book and explore the web for their favorite animal. They create a Venn diagram comparing their body parts to the...
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Dino Dung!
Students examine how there is more to poop than they think! After reading through material, they answer a series of questions on coprolite, and explore the diet and physical attributes of dinosaurs, as well as their environment.
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Welcome to the Kingdom
Students study animal classification. In this classification instructional activity students examine animal characteristics and answer questions on a handout.
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Dolphins or Sharks?
In this dolphins and sharks comparison learning exercise, students complete a web on each animal and choose from a list the attributes that fit each one. Students create a poster promoting conservation of our ocean friends.
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Email Riddles
Students compose riddles that are shared in a chat session conducted on their local school network. Students create clues that describe a specific animal or object. They watch as their words are typed onto the chat screen and sent to the...
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Power Totem
Learners investigate the important symbols to Native cultures by writing a poem. In this animal totem instructional activity, students discuss animal spirits and their relation to the Native American lifestyle. Learners write a...
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Create an Illuminated Alphabet Word Book
Students create a class alphabet book. In this letter recognition lesson, students use line and color to draw an object whose name begins with a specific letter. Students use adjectives to create a sentence describing the object or...
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Introduction to Classification
Fourth graders design a classification system to categorize animate and inanimate objects. They discuss the advantages of grouping things as they classify buttons, leaves, shells.
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Insects!
Students explore the diet of insects. In this "insects" biology lesson, students take a nature walk and collect various natural materials they think may be eaten by insects. Students sort and classify these materials into three diet...
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A Chair for Mr. Bear
Young scholars listen to Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and work collaboratively to create a chair for a small stuffed animal that will allow it to sit upright and withstand a short drop out of Legos. Students write about the...
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The Grouchy Ladybug
Learners listen to the book, "The Grouchy Ladybug" by Eric Carle and sequence the events in the story. Using a graph, they draw and color the animals that the ladybug meets next to the corresponding time from the story, and conduct...