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Mealworm Exploration

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore and discover different things about mealworms. For this mealworms lesson plan, 2nd graders look at, play with, and try to manipulate meal worms.
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Rain Garden

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students build rain gardens. In this community service lesson, students study the effectiveness of rain gardens in allowing water to run off. Students build a community rain garden at their school.
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September Science Internet Activity

For Students 4th - 8th
In this energy worksheet, students click on the links in the questions about energy to find the answers to the questions and then come back and answer the questions. Students answer 12 questions total.
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Comparing Caterpillars

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this monarch and milkweed caterpillar worksheet, students compare pictures of the monarch caterpillar and milkweed caterpillar. Students get to view 2 pictures.
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Mystery Caterpillar Challenge and IPM or Organic Gardening Practices

For Students 3rd - 6th
For this caterpillar worksheet, learners look at the picture of the caterpillar and identify what kind it is. Students then decide how to take care of it.
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Earth Day/Nature Vocabulary

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this nature vocabulary worksheet, students identify nature vocabulary words by choosing the correct word for each picture. Students complete 18 problems.
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Sense Organs & Body Systems: Cool Facts & Trivia

For Students 4th - 12th
In this sense organs and body functions worksheet, students answer true and false questions about sense organs and body functions. Students complete 13 questions.
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Insect Food Chain & Camouflage

For Teachers K
Students use art work to demonstrate their understanding of the insect food chain and their ability to camouflage themselves. In this insect food chain and camouflage lesson, students determine what type of animals feed on insects. They...
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Peanut Butter Broccoli

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore food production by viewing DNA presentations. For this genetic engineering lesson, 5th graders discuss the foods they typically eat at home and how many common foods are engineered in a way that can produce a bigger...
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Rock, Paper, Scissors

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore genetic traits. In this genetic traits lesson, 5th graders investigate dominant and recessive traits. Students identify similar traits between a parent organism and its offspring.
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Insects

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter i, and eat raisins that represent ants all to learn about insects. In this insects lesson plan, students also observe an ant farm and play follow the leader.
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Is That Your offspring?

For Students 4th
For this animal worksheet, study the names of animal offspring.  Students complete 2 word searches finding the offspring vocabulary in one and the parent names in the other.
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Where Did the Science Experiments Go?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Hands-on science experiments are essential for student learning.
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Homeschooling Chronicles - Insects

For Teachers 1st - 4th
The world of bugs may be small, but they can have a big impact on the lives of nature explorers like my children.
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Adopt-An-Insect Bingo

For Students 5th - 8th
In this biology worksheet, students select twenty-five terms relating to insects to complete their bingo card as listed on the sheet. Then they match each name or family with its correct description.
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Coloration

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students conduct an experiment picking out colored vs. camoflauged toothpicks out of the grass. They list and describe different types of coloration and explain how coloration assists the great horned owl and the striped skunk survive.
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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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Meadow Study

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars examine insects they collect in a sweep nets. They identify as many of the insects as they can.
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Weeds on the Windowsill

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students study farming and reasons to control weeds. They examine pesticides necessary for the control of weeds and the damage to the environment. Through experimentation, students plant seeds in different soils and determine if seeds...
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What's Happening to Our Caterpillars?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders participate in a lesson plan making observations of caterpillars. They identify different changes in the life cycle of a caterpillar and also understand the final result of the life cycle ending.
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Mariposas

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine how animals use camouflage for survival.  In this investigative lesson students define vocabulary words and see how it is the environment that controls which adaptations will help in survival. 
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Answering Science Questions

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Young scholars examine the ways in which scientists answer questions.  In this critical thinking and scientific process instructional activity students complete a worksheet of questions. 
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Animal Activities: Teacher's Pets

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students watch meal worms turn into beetles in the classroom.
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Insect Investigator

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine and identify common insects. They observe these insects in their environment and keep track of how many they see. They use magnifying glasses and special hats to get into the role of an inspector.

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