+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Key To Classifying Animals

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Explorers of the environment construct a dichotomous key for a variety of organisms and design a key to classify Galapagos animals based on descriptions and images. The lesson includes a link to an animal gallery and the worksheet for...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Great Pollinators

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discover the reproductive parts of a plant.  In this biology lesson, students identify and categorize several different plants they dissect in class.  Students record their information using a data chart.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduction to Adaptation

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders observe collections of specimens and discuss their answers to provided questions. They explore common ancestry, homology, analogy, adaptive radiation, and evolution, while formulating creative answers based on their...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Wetland Ecosystems: Non-living and Living Components and Brine Shrimp

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Learners explore wetland ecosystems. In this wetland lesson, students discuss and observe salt ponds and the organisms that live there. They explain how abiotic and biotic factors of species are important to survival.
+
Worksheet
Helping with Math

Ratio and Proportion: Writing Ratios (2 of 2)

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
Elementary and middle schoolers use pictures to figure out simple ratios and complete ratio word problems. An example is done for learners in which three apples and seven oranges are displayed. The answer simply is a ratio of 3:7. The...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Newspaper?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use newspapers to investigate fractions. They work in small groups to categorize articles, measure them with the grid transparency, and calculate the values represented. Afterward, they write a reflective essay on the role...
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Five Classes of Vertebrates

For Students 5th
In this vertebrates classification instructional activity, 5th graders unscramble 15 words to find answers to clues. Each clue gives information about the characteristics of vertebrates.  
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Discovering Owls

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students are introduced to different types of owls and owl pellets. They list several adaptations that benefit the owls. Students identify the various species of owl that live in Wisconsin. Students discuss owl pellets and identify the...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tundra Swan Fun Facts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read about the characteristics of tundra swan. In this tundra swan lesson, students understand the characteristics of the tundra swan and complete worksheets related to the tundra swan.
+
Worksheet
Helping with Math

Ratio and Proportion: Writing Ratios (1 of 2)

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Here is the first of two printable ratio worksheets. For the first three problems, pupils count the numbers of two different objects and simply write down the ratios. There are then four problems in word form for which they also write...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animals who eat Rice

For Teachers K
Students read a story and answer questions. In this reading for understanding lesson, students read a story and answer questions. Students also draw pictures of the story to help comprehension.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Inexpensive Marrionette Puppet

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students follow directions to create a marionette puppet using Styrofoam balls, fishing line and feathers. They practice making it walk, dance, eat, sit, and walk backwards.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fun With Imogene: Let's Use Our Imagination!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students research animal characteristics and use their imaginations to tell about what it would be like to wake up one morning and find that they have some animal characteristic. They read Imogene's Antlers by David Small.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Who Am I? - Locomotor Skills

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discuss the meaning of the word locomotion and the different ways that they use locomotor skills.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rainforest Introduction

For Teachers 1st
First graders create parrots and butterflies by using art materials to introduce them to rainforest animals. In this art lesson plan, 1st graders then use these animals to create a class rainforest.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Newspaper?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders reinforce understanding of fractions through use of newspapers.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Penguin Paradise

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read about penguins and communicate their information in a one paragraph summary. In this penguin writing instructional activity, students review sentence construction. Students complete a KWL about penguins and read the book...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Plover Survival: A Simulation Game

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders engage in a simulation that explains the feeding behavior of the piping plover and the things that disturb the feeding and nesting of this species.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dancing Flamingos

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students, through the media of dance and drama, discover how an animal's behavior helps them to survive in the environment. They practice performing or mimicking how a flamingo's acts and positions itself when being observed. The...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mazes

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this mazes worksheet, students determine the best path in a maze to help a turn stone find some lunch. Students share their paths with their classmates.
+
Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Looking at Bird Beaks

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Use this activity as an introduction to adaptations. Students will view video clips of birds and formulate their own observations and explanations for the different types of bird beaks and how they are used.
+
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Being Darwin's Finches

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this biology activity, learners will be investigating evolution by "competing" for food like Darwin's finches might have competed. Each student group is given a different type of "beak" to work with and there are also different kinds...
+
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Compare Human Made Objects With Natural Objects

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In small groups, students will experiment and observe the similarities and differences between human-made objects and nature. The students will compare the function and structure of hollow bones with drinking straws, bird beaks, tool...