Students discuss the use of noses by animals and by people.

In this writing worksheet, 3rd graders rewrite 4 sentences adding more details to each. They enhance sentences about a field trip, animals, baby animal, and a picnic in the park.

Second graders study how people grow and change. In this health lesson, 2nd graders describe how they have changed over the years and guess who each student is after looking at everyone's baby pictures.

Students listen to a reading of the "Desert Tortoise Tale" and complete a maze that highlights the different threats the baby tortoise faces along the way. They discuss the reasons the Desert Tortoise is becoming endangered.

Students examine the habits of various organism and evaluate the need for conserving natural resources. They role-play as migrating birds traveling between habitats encountering hazards along the way. They observe animals in a...

Students are introduced to several concepts about milk teeth and permanent teeth. They view photos of baby teeth, complete a worksheet that depicts their current tooth development and identify ways in which to care for permanent teeth.

Students investigate the basic needs of organisms that must be met in order to carry out life processes. They view a variety of organism that are meeting and competing for resources. Students create an Idea Web for the animals shown....

Focused little scientists will flitter their arms back and forth across the room with excitement as they learn the life cycle of a butterfly and how living things grow and change over time.

Students react to a statement about living with wolves, then read a news article about Shaun Ellis and his time living with wolves. In this current events and wolves lesson plan, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and...

In this science worksheet, students read an "interview" with a bat who has been displaced from his home in the rainforest. Using a word bank, students fill in 20 missing words from the script. Students then answer 10 questions about...

Students improve vocabulary and explore predicting and categorizing after reading the book, Is Your Mama a Llama?

Student create a fish and listen to music while imagining their fish are swimming.  In this music activity, learners identify instruments played and move their fish to the movement.  Students work with kangaroos and elephants...

In this animals worksheet, students play a matching game much like the game memory where they match the animals to their babies. Students match as many cards as they put out.

Students are introduced to basic genetic information to discover how they acquired the traits they have. Individually, they develop a family tree and identify the similarities and differences between two poeple. In groups, they examine...

In this literacy worksheet, students match the baby and adult animals. They use the cutouts to play a matching game and they be colored also.

Students explore the implications of dogfighting. In this animal welfare instructional activity, students participate in a game that helps them to consider the harmfulness of dogfighting.

In this habitats worksheet, 4th graders answer 11 multiple choice questions about the lives, the habitat and the social skills of the meerkats, with answers included.

Students examine qualities of pet owners. In this animal welfare lesson, students discuss the reasons people give up their pets and the problems that pet relinquishment may cause. Students create posters that promote positive pet ownership.

Student discuss names and nicknames for human and animal families and complete a worksheet, matching pictures of father, baby and mother animals.

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,...

Fourth graders explore life cycles and the metamorphic process. In this life science lesson, 4th graders work in groups to study a group of creatures and metamorphosis. Students view examples of metamorphic and non-metamorphic life...

Students discuss the meaning of "hogging" something, and speculate on the origin of this phrase. They attempt to guess the contents of a shoe box (without looking inside). Students view feed grains and discuss animals that eat these...

Second graders gather information in a survey and interpret the results using a tally chart, a table, and a bar graph. They' present their results of the during the final group discussion. The subject of the survey is favorite stuffed...

Students identify animals that are unique to Australia, study their habitation and how they fit in their environment.  In this exploratory lesson students research a topic to find out specific information about it.