Worksheet
Curated OER

Notes- Similes 2

For Students 5th - 10th
For this simile worksheet, students read definitions, paragraphs, and examples that contain similes. Students complete 8 sections to read and explain.
Worksheet
Curated OER

How Do Environments Change?

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this environments instructional activity, learners will write in the effects fire, dams, and people can have on the environment. Students will complete 4 fill in the blank statements.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animals Of The Forest

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students conduct research into the words found to relate to the forests of Wisconsin. They write the words in complete sentences in the correct context. With the writing also includes the oral practice. Students also create their own...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How a Seed Grows: And Who Grows It

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore botany by viewing video clips in class. In this seed growth activity, 2nd graders identify the types of seeds that grow specific plants and what the optimal conditions are for growing seeds. Students view a video...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Next Year's Seeds

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore genetic traits. In this genetic traits lesson, 5th graders discover how traits are passed from parent to offspring while examining plants. Students problem solve real world applications.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Balance of Nature Pyramid

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study the concept of food chains and create a physical forest food chain pyramid. For this balance of nature pyramid lesson, students identify the ingredients needed on each level of the pyramid then make connections...
Interactive
Curated OER

Advanced Sentence Completion: 11

For Students 6th - 8th
In this sentence completion worksheet, middle schoolers fill in the blank for the correct words for each sentence. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions. Click on "show all" to see the rest of the worksheet.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Changing How Things Look

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use a literature study in order to investigate how organisms effect an ecosystem. They are asked questions about change taken from the book. Students also take a nature walk to make field observations.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Where Do You Fit In?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners study habitats and then draw a picture of their own habitat which includes the location of food, water, and shelter, and the concept of space. then they cut their habitat in half and discuss how this would affect their lives.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Using the Suffix 'ly'

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this suffix instructional activity, students spell words using the 'ly' suffix and then write the 'ly' words into sentences. Students write their own sentences for the last set of 'ly' words.
Handout
University of Massachusetts

Beavers in Massachusetts

For Students 9th - 10th
Physical characteristics, distribution, food, life cycle, and dam and lodge building are the topics featured in this effective beaver site.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Bring in the Beavers!

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a town that wanted to solve a problem with flooding. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Canadian Beaver

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text Canadian beavers in Tadoussac, Quebec. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Handout
Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: North American Beaver

For Students 9th - 10th
The North American beaver has survived despite centuries of trapping for their valued pelts. Beavers are marvelous engineers who, the author says, are 'second only to humans in the magnitude of change which they can effect on their...
Handout
Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium

Pittsburgh Zoo: American Beaver

For Students 9th - 10th
The American beaver is North America's largest rodent. Use this resource to discover more about this beaver known for building dams, canals, and lodges.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Cat in the Hat: Welcome to Beaver City

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Welcome to Beaver City! It's dam building day! Choose from 3 games to play.
Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: American Beaver

For Students 4th - 8th
The largest North American rodent and the only one with a broad, flat, scaly tail, the Beaver is now common and widespread, even in areas it did not inhabit during pre-colonial times. The modifications it makes to the environment by...
Website
Other

Sim Science: Cracking Dams: Beginning Level

For Students 3rd - 5th
Beginning level exercises on the process of dam building. Examines dam building from the human and animal perspectives.
Interactive
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Homework Helper: Organism Needs (Habitats)

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive game asks you to identify the habitat needs of certain animals by building a suitable habitat for a parrot, lion, and beaver.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Smile! Show Off Those Pearly Whites

For Students 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text telling about the teeth of different animals including: hippopotamus, beavers, sharks, lions, and people. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...