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Animals Word Search
In this Animals Word Search worksheet, students find 16 animals in a word search. Examples include dog, bear, tiger, pig, and elephant.
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A Healthy Environment
Students market healthy environments. In this healthy environment lesson, students participate in an activity that requires them to examine the food web. Students then research healthy and unhealthy environments and use their findings to...
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Animal Classification
Pupils watch video and slide shows as an introduction to animals. They discuss classifications of animals while moving from most common to least common of the animals. Types of classifications includes herbivores/carnivores;...
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Food Web Crossword Puzzle
In this food web crossword puzzle worksheet, students use the 23 clues to identify the correct terms that will solve the crossword puzzle.
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Let's Make Lemonade Lesson 2: Philanthropy in Song
Students discover a working definition of the word philanthropy. They sing the definition to the tune of a familiar song. They establish phonemic awareness through rhyming text and identify philanthropic acts.
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STAND-UP, SIT DOWN
Students read a story in which ten animals play a role. Ten students represent these animals by either having the name of the animal on a card round their necks, or a sticky yellow paper on the chest, or by being dressed up as this animal.
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Aesop's Fables
Students read a fable about a lion and a mouse. They discuss the differences between the two animals. As a class, they discover the lesson of the story. Then they make puppets and reenact the fable.
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Kindness Counts Book
Students listen to stories about kindness and discuss kindness in their lives. Students then complete Kindness Counts page, illustrating and telling story, and turn in completed page to teacher to be laminated and assembled.
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Animals Word Search
In this Animals Word Search worksheet, students find 16 words in a word search. Examples include lion, hamster, tiger, zebra, and mouse.
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Grammar: Verbs
In this sounds of animals worksheet, students investigate fifteen different animal sounds and then match them up to the animals that make them.
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What Animals Eat
First graders organize animals according to what they eat. They compare the teeth of plant eaters and meat eaters.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "The Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop
A learning module that begins with the fable "The Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts: Aesop's Fables: "The Lion and the Mouse"
Read this traditional fable of "The Lion and the Mouse" to learn that even little friends can do great things. Two illustrated versions are provided. Both include the same text, but one has traditional illustrations while the other has...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Little Big Mouse
This video segment from Between the Lions features "The Lion and the Mouse" for young students, an introduction to one of many Aesop's fables. illustrates how children can learn by talking about a book as it is read aloud. [4:19]
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Aesop's Fables
Work your way through the moral tales of Aesop. Table of context provides links to traditional tellings and modernized versions. Videos and original illustrations help tell the stories.
Starfall
Starfall: Not Too Little to Help
This is a fictional interactive ebook about a tiny mouse and a big lion. Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
Language Guide
Language Guide: Los Animales Africanos
Lots of colorful pictures illustrate African animals. Students can learn correct spelling and pronunciation by moving their mouse over each picture. Some pictures include the sound the animal makes, the name of the sound and the verb....
University of Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Primate Research Center: Primate Info Net
Information about primates, includes links to primate centers and organizations. Find out about the International Directory of Primatology. Click into "Resources on Primatology" and then "About the Primates" to get to primate-specific...
Oakland Zoo
Oakland Zoo: Welcome to the Oakland Zoo
Site allows users to tour the Oakland Zoo and view all types of animals from A-Z. Offers links to cool stuff and a world safari.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Small Mammals
The Smithsonian National Zoological Park explores the lives of small mammals, both in the wild and in captivity. Choose a webcam to view a variety of small mammals live and up-close, learn about current conservation efforts, access an...