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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Plants and Animals: Partners in Pollination

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Smithsonian Education presents a series of three lesson plans whose focus is plants and animals in their role as partners in pollination. Each lesson comes complete with clear learning objectives, materials list, subjects covered,...
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Reproduction in Plants and Animals

For Students 2nd - 4th
Reproduction in Plants and Animals. The ability to produce more organism similar to themselves is a very important characteristic of all living organisms. The process by which they do so is known as reproduction. [0:21]
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Biodome De Montreal: Fact Sheets: Plants and Animals of the Biodome

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a searchable database with fact sheets for animals and for plants from a variety of ecosystems, including tropical forests and the Antarctic. The fact sheets have several pictures and very detailed information about each species.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Britannica Kids: Ireland: Natural Resources, Plants, and Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
A short description of Ireland's natural resources, including both the plant and animal life.
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Ohio Dept. Of Education: Plants and Animals Around the Year

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This is a unit for Grade Two where learners investigate the plants and animals found in their schoolyard and prepare a poster display.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian in Your Classroom: Plants and Animals: Partners in Pollination

For Teachers 4th - 9th
A lesson unit on pollination. Includes background information, lessons and activity pages. One handout is in Spanish.
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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Where Plants and Animals Live

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining habitats where plants and animals live. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Life Cycles of Plants and Animals

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This lesson activity helps students learn that things change over time and how both plants and animals change in their life cycles. They will demonstrate what they've learned on a Venn diagram and a t-chart.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Investigating Animals Packet: Pre K and K: Summer of Possibilities

For Students Pre-K - K
Use these animal-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures while investigating animals.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Animals and Plants Can Live in a City!

For Teachers K - 1st
For this interactive lesson, students learn that animals need air, food, water, and shelter, while plants need air, sunlight, and water. Students watch videos and engage with drawing and sorting activities to reinforce their learning....
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My Science Site

Pond Water Plants and Animals [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource depicts some pond water plants and animals one might happen to spot while peering through their microscope lense. This resource is in PDF form; requires Adobe Reader.
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Illinois State Museum: Mazon Creek Collection Database

For Students 9th - 10th
Mazon Creek fossils are named for the collecting area in northeastern Illinois where many of the best specimens are found. They are an important source of information about the plants and animals that inhabited this part of North America...
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: The Prairie

For Students K - 1st
Learn about the plants and animals that live on the prairie. Includes audio narration in English and Turkish with text in English.
eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: The Desert

For Students Pre-K - K
Learn about the plants and animals that live in the desert. Book includes audio narration in 8 additional languages with text in English.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: Spring Comes to the Desert

For Students K - 1st
Learn about springtime in the desert and the plants and animals that live there. Book includes audio narration in 20 additional languages with text in English.
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Landscope Colorado: Featured Animals in Colorado

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of some of Colorado's most well known animals. This is followed by brief profiles of selected animals including the sage-grouse, boreal toad, lynx, prairie chicken, jumping mouse as well as endangered fish and butterflies of...
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Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
This online site for the Australian Museum introduces the nature and culture of this unique continent. This particular section focuses on the creatures of Australia including spiders, fish, birds, reptiles, mammals, insects, frogs,...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Prairie Life: Observation and Recording of Plant and Animal Life

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will learn about prairie life as they investigate the plants and animals that live there. They will then share their observations with their classmates.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Charley's Lessons About Animals by Petter & Galpin Cassell

For Students 4th - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Charley's Lessons about Animals by Petter & Galpin Cassell (1864). This book includes the titled novella about the uses for domestic animals and the "Story of...
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Who Loves Carrots?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A book about carrots. They are good for people and many animals like to eat them too. Includes audio narration in nine additional languages with text in English.
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Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Lifecycles of Animals and Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
This segment covers the lifecycles of various plants and animals. Illustrations begin with the production of a gamete and describe the processes that occur throughout the lifespan of living creatures.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Cell Structure Aqa

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on plant cell structures including the parts of cell structures and their functions, cell structures that are in both plants and animals, and the cell structures found only in plants and their functions. Links to a...
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Nature's Partners: Pollinators, Plants, and You [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Teachers will love this comprehensive Grades 3-6 curriculum on pollinators. There are six modules of detailed plans and accompanying materials. Pre-assessment activities and teacher background information, as well as supplemental...
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Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Grassland Plants

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the Missouri Botanical Garden explores some commonly asked questions about the prairie and prairie plants.

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