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Small Pond Creatures

For Teachers K - 6th
Students complete a unit about the different creatures that can live in a small pond habitat. They create a glossary, create a class Small Pond mural, develop a Frog Fact File, read a variety of books, and conduct research for a report...
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How Ecosystems Change

For Students 4th - 6th
In this ecosystem worksheet, students will use four pictures showing the animal and plant changes occurring in a particular habitat over many years to complete 5 short answer questions.
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Shadow Know-How: Shorebirds

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this science worksheet, students will identify 10 different types of shorebirds by the shape of their shadow. The birds are shown in their natural habitat.
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Interdependence and Adaptation

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders construct a food web to illustrate how animals and plants are interdependent. In this interdependence lesson, 5th graders identify how consumers, producers, herbivores, carnivores and predators are related in a habitat....
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Ecosystem Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this ecosystem worksheet, students read descriptions and match the appropriate vocabulary term using ecosystem, habitat, community, and population. Students identify ten vocabulary terms.
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Activity Plan 4-5: Animal Habitats

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students investigate the world around them with this animal habitat activity. In this early childhood lesson plan, students create murals depicting animal habitats to encourage the development of science, geography, creative-thinking,...
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Squirrel Islands

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this adaptations worksheet, young scholars read about 3 species that have changed over time to adapt to their environment. Students design a squirrel that has adapted to an island habitat that young scholars are assigned. They...
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The World Around Me: Animal Songs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners explore various animals and their habitats. In this animal and habitat lesson, students discuss and describe familiar animals and their habitats. The learners listen to books about animals and their habitats, compare and...
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Writing a Fly Report

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this science research worksheet set, students complete scaffolded worksheets as they prepare to write a report about flies. They research information about the habitat, life cycle, interesting facts, diets, and predators of flies,...
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Get- To Know Mammals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students take a field trip and record information about mammals. In this mammals lesson, students hunt for tracks, waste, or other evidence that a mammal exists in this habitat. Students complete a worksheet on the evidence they have found.
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A Close Encounter of the Tree Kind

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students study trees in their natural habitat. In this tree lesson, students complete a number of outdoor activities to estimate the height of a tree, examine how bark can be a distinguishing tree characteristic, and how to make a bark...
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Learning About Animal Shelters for Earth Day

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore habitats. in this ecology and animal habitat lesson, students listen to the book A House is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman. Students discuss the basic needs of animals and go on a nature walk to observe animal...
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Biology: living Things and their Environment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students recognize that organisms depend on other organisms.  In this organism lesson, students understand symbiotic relationships and competition.  Students explain food chains and food webs.  Students understand that...
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Lions and Tigers and Bears - Oh My!

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Research animals and develop a non-fiction presentation. Young scholars will complete research on a particular animal and determine the animal's characteristics as well as habitat before choosing a differentiated project to present using...
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Big Cat Locations

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore different environments while studying the habitats of big cats.  In this big cats lesson, 1st graders draw pictures of their favorite cats, learn about the areas where cats live, design a zoo habitat and make a...
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Raising Trout

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students investigate the life cycles of fish as they observe a trout's life in class.  In this fish life lesson, students create a proper habitat in a fish tank for the trout eggs to spawn and thrive for several weeks....
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Monitoring Life In The Rocky Intertidal Ecosystem

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate marine life by researching aquatic organisms on the Internet. In this oceanography instructional activity, students monitor algae and animals of the ocean by identifying their population and habitat on data sheet ID...
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Frog Questions

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this frogs worksheet, students first choose a type of frog and research facts about it. Students answer 7 essay questions about habitat, food, body adaptation and protection.
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Wolves: Friend or Foe?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers study wolves and their habitat in Yellowstone.  In this environment and behavior lesson students create an interactive map of wolves in Yellowstone.
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Calling All Owls

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students research various types of owls.  In this owls instructional activity, students observe owls and discuss their characteristics.  Students go to an owl habitat and listen for the call of an owl. Students read The Owl in...
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Adaptations to Environments with Mammals

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders, after viewing a PowerPoint on different mammals, analyze what a biome is. Then they choose a mammal to research and go outside to feel the grass and leaves and hypothesize about which biome they live in as well as its...
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America's Rain Forests Can It Be Real?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners examine the attributes of unusual plants and animals before determining how they are adapted to specific habitat. They complete an associated worksheet. They make posters with information that they find during research sessions.
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Journey To the Unkown

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Learners explore the ocean rift habitat off the Galapagos through an audio expedition, Internet research on deep sea animals, an explorer game and simulation of the exploration of the deep sea bottom. They focus on the actual NOAA...
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Animal Report

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this report writing worksheet, students use this graphic organizer to report on a particular animal. Students fill out the chart which includes habitat, food, description, enemies and a picture.

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