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Games on Echolocation

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Get a little batty with life science! This fun simulation game replicates how bats use echolocation to hunt moths in their native Hawaiian habitat. After creating blind folds and discussing some basic principles of echolocation, students...
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Mammals and Reptiles Cut and Paste

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Adorable! Most children are really drawn to animals. With this worksheet, they cut out eight darling drawings of animals and then affix each to a page divided in half according to whether it is a mammal or a reptile. If you need it, an...
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Sorting and Graphing Animals

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students inquire about animals using SIRS Discoverer or eLibrary Elementary.  In this organizing data instructional activity, students sort pictures of animals in various ways and develop graphs. Students locate a mammal, reptile,...
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How Many Animals?

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students use their math skills to develop estimates for the population of several animal species native to the Austrailian rainforest. It is a simulation that researchers at the Center for Rainforest Studies in Australia perform to...
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Name Scramble: African Ungulates

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this language arts and science worksheet, students analyze 10 pictures of African ungulates (hoofed animals) with scrambled names. Students decipher the names and write them correctly under each picture.
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Galaxies and the Universe

For Students 8th - 9th
If Earth was formed 4600 million years ago, and the sun revolves about the center of the Milky Way once every 250 million years, how many revolutions have occurred? Learners answer this question and ten more, all providing students with...
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What do Bison Eat?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify the three major categories of food eaten by bison. In groups, they collect examples of grass and forbs and press them. They complete a chart of the percentages of each type of food the bison eat in a day. They...
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How Big Is A Humpback Whale?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore humpback whales. In this humpback whale lesson plan, students determine the actual size of humpback whales and use diagrams to identify the major features of the humpback whale.
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Cardinals

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this cardinals activity, students explore facts about cardinals and practice their number reasoning. Students read about cardinals and solve word problems involving cardinals.