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Animals Antonyms and Synonyms Worksheet
Create a cross-curricular connection for your upper elementary language arts kids. There are 15 vocabulary words listed in the chart, and each has to do with exploring different ecosystems. For each word, the learner must find an antonym...
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Technology Squares: Mammals
Review basic vocabulary related to mammals. This short quiz game allows students to test their skills and understanding of scientific vocabulary. This game is appropriate for grades 5-7 and covers very basic concepts.
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My Favorite Animal
Students research an animal of choice and create a project. In this animal science lesson, students choose an animal living in the International Peace Park to research. Students write a paper and create a project to present...
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Hunt the Fact Monster #20
In this search engine activity, 3rd graders will need to use factmonster.com to discover answers. Students will respond to 10 short answer and multiple choice questions using the given website.
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Intermediate Sentence Completion 10
Provide your English language learners with some additional practice completing sentences. They have to select the word that makes the most sense in 12 sentences. This sheet is designed for intermediate learners, as some of the...
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Amazon Food Chain
Explore food chains in the Amazon Rainforest using this resource. Learners discuss the predator vs. prey relationships in the food chain. Then, they create a food web to describe this relationship. This is a simple and effective way to...
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Energy Flow and the Food Chain
Young scholars complete discussions and worksheets about the Hawaiian food chain. In this food chain lesson plan, students research decomposers, consumers, and producers.
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Costa Rican Food Chain
Discuss the animals and plants in the rainforest food chain using this lesson plan. Learners talk about and do research on the top predators from the Costa Rican region and create a model of one of them in class. They also make a visual...
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Forest Food Webs
Students consider the interdependency of life in a temperate forest by studying selected organisms from an Asian temperate forest and creating a food web.
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Forest Food Chains and Webs
Students explore forest ecological systems. In this ecology lesson, students classify forest plants and animals according to their ecological roles. Students play a related vocabulary guessing game. Students choose a card on which...
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Animals Multiple Choice Words Worksheet
Looking for some simple multiple-choice questions for an upcoming biology unit on animals? This activity features 7 clearly worded questions, each with 4 possible answers. Topics include adaptation, camouflage, ecosystems, animal...
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The Great Grizzly
Students generate questions about grizzly bears and use the Internet to research the answers. As a culminating activity, students create a life-size mural of a grizzly that is annotated with the information they've learned.
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Food Chains
Fourth graders study food chains, producers, consumers, and decomposers. They play a food chain game and create food chain mobiles or posters. They take a nature hike around the school and observe various parts of a food chain.
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Science Videos
Students plan, practice, and act in a 2-3 minute videotaped production about a specific topic. Students from a local high school give presentations pertaining to seasons, earth rotation, and moon phases. Students analyze the...
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3-D Ocean Animals
Fifth graders research an animal from the ocean, using the internet and encyclopedias, with at least 5 out of 5 topics covered. They also construct a 3-dimensional model of their animal and give an oral presentation about their animal...
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Texas Ecoregions Summary Sheet
In this ecoregions of Texas worksheet, learners complete a summary of a particular ecoregion in Texas. They find the producers and consumers of the region, they draw a food chain, the draw a food web, and they complete an energy pyramid...
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4th Grade Life Science Unit: Animals
Fourth graders classify animals. For this animal kingdom lesson, 4th graders research animal habitats and behaviors. Students connect to a zoologist via SKYPE and learn about animal classification. Students blog about preserving animal...
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Insect Travel Brochure
Students explore the concept of insects and their habitats. For this insect habitat lesson, students create travel brochures for particular insects. Students must include habitat, producers, and consumers with in the vacation...
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Dino-Mite Web Quest
In this science worksheet, students identify a specific dinosaur to research. Then they develop an overview of their dinosaur family and the foods each dinosaur in their family eat. Students also identify how the dinosaurs defend...
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Food Chain: what's for dinner?
Fourth graders identify where foods came from and sequence a food chain. In this food chain lesson, 4th graders define vocabulary related to food chains and order a food chain. Students follow the energy of a food chain. Students...
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KWL Chart and Background Article
Students discuss an ecosystem. In this coral reef lesson, students fill in their own KWL chart and contribute ideas to a whole class KWL chart. They read an article as a class to spark ideas for facts they can add to the "K" part of the...
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Animal Brochures
Fourth graders work in pairs to research an animal. They fill in an animal data form in order to become experts about the animal they choose. They use the listed criteria to design a six sided brochure that includes graphics of the...
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Shark Quiz
In this science worksheet, young scholars demonstrate their general knowledge about sharks by taking a 15 question quiz. Students write their answers on the lines.
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Ecosystems - Lessons 1 and 3
In this biology activity, students answer 22 multiple choice questions on ecosystem. They identify which ecosystem component is described in each of the question.