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Habitat Hopscotch

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students analyze different habitats. For this habitat lesson, students evaluate what animals need in their habitats. Students participate in the game Habitat Hopscotch.
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Get Ready to Hibernate! Migrate! or Get Fat!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the different ways which animals survive the winter months, and sort animals into correct categories using a Venn diagram.
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The Name Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students identify animals and their babies. In this animal name lesson plan, 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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What Bees Eat

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students consider the concept that plants and animals are dependent on one another and role-play the interaction between bees and flowers. They identify crops that are dependent on pollination by bees.
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Stellaluna - Mammals and Birds

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read Stellaluna, by Janel Cannon, 2nd graders classify selected animals into two groups, (1) Mammals as in the bat, Stellaluna and (2) birds.
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ESL-Kindergarten English Activities

For Students K - 1st
For this kindergarten English worksheet, students look at a picture and make checks next to correct statements, then identify animals, using a drop down list.
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Hibernation and Estimation

For Students 4th - 7th
In this hibernation worksheet, students first read the passage below about animals who hibernate to adapt to the cold weather. They then answer the 10 questions at the bottom of the page.
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Reading Research!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students observe the pictures in non-fiction books that focus on animals in the winter. In addition, they also listed to some read aloud books about hibernation, migration, adaptation and dormancy. Students draw pictures and write notes...
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Rainforest Word Puzzle

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this rainforest worksheet, students search for names of animals that live in the rainforest in a word search. Students search for 13 animal names.
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Animal Similes

For Students Pre-K - 6th
For this English worksheet, students use animals in similes. Students fill in the blanks with the names of animals. The subjects of the sentences are compared to animals.
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Films Legends

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students watch and discuss films. In this video viewing activity, students watch a film related to a  different topic every Friday. Students watch these films in order to encourage discussion and Internet research. Suggested film...
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ESL: Can/Can't

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this ESL can/can't worksheet, students fill in blanks with either word to indicate what animals can or can't do, make up sentences using given animals, type in the verbs can/can't, and answer a set of questions. 
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Shadow Know-How- Identifying Pond Species

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this science fill in the blank worksheet, students fill in 10 labels next to shadow pictures of pond animals. They check their answers with the names in the word bank at the bottom of the page.
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Quiz: Animal Dangers

For Teachers 3rd
In this science worksheet, 3rd graders will focus on animal dangers. Students will respond to nine true/false questions all pertaining to various animals.
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Common Mammal Word Scramble

For Teachers 3rd
In this science worksheet, 3rd graders will focus on the names of common mammals. Students will unscramble the names of ten animals and write the names in the spaces provided below each picture.
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Creatures of the Grand Canyon

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this word search puzzle instructional activity, students find and circle all of the wildlife hidden in a word search puzzle. Students also classify the animals into groups of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, or amphibians.
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Name Match

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this name match worksheet, students match up fourteen different types of mammals with their formal names by drawing a line from one to the other.
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Australian Mammals: Evolutionary Development as a Result of Geographic Isolation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers comprehend the difference between monotremes, marsupials, and placental mammals. They are able to compare and contrast these organisms (Australian mammals) with other mammals. Students are able to identify Australian...
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Halloween Writing Paper

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this Halloween writing paper worksheet, students can write a note on paper that is decorated with a Halloween bat and a grave that says R.I.P. There are no directions with this page.
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I Want To Know More...

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this animal research worksheet, students choose an animal they want to learn more about and then research the answers to twelve questions about the animal of their choice.
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Animal Similes

For Students 5th - 6th
In this ESL animal vocabulary activity, students examine pictures of 7 animals. Students read similes that are incomplete; the animal names will be used to make the simile complete. Example: as blind as a (bat).
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AAAAAAAAAAA! Stop Crying!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice recognizing the phoneme /a/ in spoken words. They interact with the book, "A Cat's Nap," and a poster with Abby and Allen on it that are asking animals for apples, and cards with words on them like at, mad, went, bag,...
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HyperStudio Animal Project

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create a HyperStudio project on an animal of their choice. They discuss the animal's habitat and adaptations. They also identify any interesting facts about their animal.
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Alphabetic Acting

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other vowel phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...