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Adaptable Mandibles
Young scholars define adaptation and highlight example of adaptation in birds and other animals. They study feeding techniques of seabirds and investigate the effect that trash has on wildlife.
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Acrostic Animal
Second graders listen as the teacher describes how an acrostic poem is written. They research an endangered animal of Puerto Rico. Students write an acrostic poem as a class, and then individually about the animal they research. Students...
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Human Impact on the Environment
In this environmental science worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle with 26 questions about human impact on the environment.
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Lesson 2: Timber Harvesting Methods and Logging Methods
Whereas very few learners study this topic, this lesson plan is written well! An organized and detailed teaching outline explains thinning, clearcutting, seed tree, and shelterwood methods of harvesting timber. Beautiful diagrams can be...
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Protect the Primates
Learners make posters about saving the primates. In this primates lesson plan, students discuss primates and environmental changes and make posters with pictures about saving primates.
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Countdown Calendar
Students create a calendar of endangered species. For this preservation lesson, students research endangered species of plants and animals around the Lake Pontchartrain Basin. Students gather facts about the endangered species and create...
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Land Use
Students examine ecosystems that covered Illinois 200 years ago, investigate some living and non-living components of ecosystems, identify components of prairie system, create food webs, and observe human effects on environment. Lessons...
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Endangered Species
Students research the issue of species endangerment by exploring threatened animals, their habitats, and the environmental challenges associated with them. They explore the relationships between living things and their environment....
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African Elephant Overpopulation Problem
Students investigate the problem of elephant overpopulation. They identify the components of the watering hole as found in Addo Elephant National Park. They also pretend to be part of the environment and act out the part in a class drama...
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Are You Related?
Students study microsatellite markers and explain how they might be used to identify populations. They use data to make inferences about the populations of deep-sea corals.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 12.32 Habitat Destruction
See how human activity has affected habitat loss and destruction.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Habitat Destruction and Its Effects on Ecosystems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Some of the main ways that habitats are destroyed by human activities are described. Includes two videos and questions about them, as well as review questions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Human Causes of Extinction
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In addition to habitat destruction, other human-caused problems are also threatening many species. These include issues associated with climate change, pollution,...
NOAA
Noaa: Restoration of Coral Ecosystems
The Coral Reef Restoration Center provides reasons why coral reefs are being destroyed, current or recent restoration activities, and future restoration efforts.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Science Explorations: Animals, Adaptations and the Galapagos Islands
Discover the effects human impact has had on the native organisms of the Galapagos Islands.