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PBS

Pbs Kids: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Nature Mobile

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is a pre-k or lower elementary activity. Students take a nature walk, collect things and hang them on a mobile.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Elinor Wonders Why: Elinor's Nature Adventure

For Students Pre-K - K
Come explore with Elinor! Use the tools provided to observe your environment as you take a nature walk. What will you find?
Website
BBC

Bbc Nature: Prehistoric Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore life on ancient Earth with this site! Students can walk with dinosaurs to see what Earth looked like or investigate Earth's history. The site includes articles, pictures, timelines, and lots more.
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Read Works

Read Works: When Fish First Walked

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about natural selection and its role in the theory of evolution. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Website
PBS

Pbs: Nature: Walking With Giants: The Grizzlies of Siberia

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives lots of great information on grizzly bears in Siberia. Read about living near grizzlies, baby bears, and captivity of these animals.
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Other

Nearby Nature

For Students 9th - 10th
This organization provides nature walks, volunteer opportunities, environment restoration projects, and other educational opportunities that encourage nature appreciation.
Unit Plan
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: What Does It Mean to Be Human, Human Characteristics

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore walking upright, tools and food, bodies, brains, social life, language and how humans ultimately changed the world. Excellent charts, pictures and videos accompany easy-to-understand text on the earliest humans.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Journey Through the Trees

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The teacher will discuss the importance of trees with the students. The teacher will provide photographs of various trees that grow in Russell Cave National Monument and the surrounding North Alabama area. The teacher will discuss...
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EL Education

El Education: A Walk Through Highland Park

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This book was created by 2nd grade students in Rochester, New York as part of a three-month learning expedition on animals and habitats called, "A Walk Through Highland Park. Students spent time in their local park doing fieldwork making...
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Random Walks

For Students 9th - 10th
Understanding and programming one of the best known and simplest simulations of motion, the random walk.
Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: A Nature and Nurture Walk in Mendel Park

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take a walk in the animated "Mendel Park" to discover which traits are genetic and which are a combination of genetics and upbringing.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Sea Side Walks of a Naturalist by Rev. W. Houghton

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Seaside Walks of a Naturalist with His Children by Rev. W. Houghton [1870], a book about marine natural history.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Discovering Nature in Our Neighborhood: Investigating Natural Communities

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners examine the natural surroundings around the school and identify micro-communities of plants, insects, and other animals through walks and nature journaling.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Energy Gallery Walk

For Teachers 5th - 9th
A cooperative learning activity using the Gallery Walk Strategy to enrich student understanding of the complex nature of solving our nation's energy needs.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Walking on Water How Do Water Striders Do It?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
This activity is designed for students to get a first look at water tension. It also allows them to make a model and test a situation seen in nature with materials that are readily available.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Morning Walk

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
This task presents a straight forward question that can be solved using an equation in one variable. The numbers are complicated enough so that it is natural to set up an equation rather than solve the problem in one's head. Aligns with...
Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Moving Mammals

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students explore the different ways mammals move by observing them walk, hop, gallop, swim and swing in animations. Facts about habitat and structure are also included in these animations.
Handout
University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

University of Saskatchewan: Modelling Natural Growth

For Students 9th - 10th
This site shows how to model exponential growth. The site walks the student through an example problem using logarithms to find the exponential growth of the theoretical world population.
Handout
University of Oxford (UK)

Oxford University Museum of Natural History: The Learning Zone: Fossils

For Students 3rd - 5th
This excellent website walks students through the basics of understanding fossils. It emphasizes that most common fossils would be invertebrates and, after learning more about these life forms, students can choose to take a quiz. The...
Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: A Walk Through the Ruins of Petra

For Students 5th - 8th
Explore an ancient city carved into the sandstone cliffs.
Website
US Department of Agriculture

Idaho Panhandle National Forest

For Students 9th - 10th
The Panhandle National Forest has programs that focus on trees and nature walks. They study wildlife habitats and wildfire restoration. Learn how nature repairs itself after a fire.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Walking by Henry David Thoreau

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of "Walking" by Henry David Thoreau that espouses the benefits of nature to mankind.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: "A Bird Came Down the Walk"

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by Emily Dickinson about watching a bird. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Moon Walk

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about the Earth's only natural satellite, the Moon. They discuss the Moon's surface features and human exploration. They also learn about how engineers develop technologies to study and explore the Moon, which also helps...

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