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Find the Frog

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students, the advanced beginner to intermediate ESL level, use English in a science activity.
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Exploring Animal Habitats: Winter Changes

For Teachers K
Students explore animals during the winter months. They discuss the changes that animals make during winter in order to survive. Students discuss migration, hibernation, and staying active during winter months. Students create various...
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Butterfly Metamorphosis

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students read a story, watch a video, and interact with a butterfly website to learn about butterfly metamorphosis. For this butterfly lesson plan, students listen, discuss, and participate in activities relating the metamorphosis of a...
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Chalkboard Challenge

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this PowerPoint, students compete in a quiz show game similar to Jeopardy in which they generate questions to match science facts in a number of categories. Science concepts covered include plants, animals, and matter. Due to the vast...
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Coral Reefs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the animals that live in a coral reef and how they adapt to their environment.  For this coral lesson students write a short book on how animals inhabit the coral reefs. 
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I Will Survive

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore animal adaptations. In this animal science instructional activity, students watch the video "Kratt's Kreatures" and work in groups to complete a worksheet about animal adaptations.
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Feeding Frenzy

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners examine, through experimentation and simulation, how insect mouthparts are adapted for particular food sources, discuss how various animals have adapted to survive, play Feeding Frenzy game, and complete activity sheets.
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Amazing Amphibians- Reading Comprehension

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this amazing amphibians worksheet, students read a one page essay about the characteristics of amphibians. They answer 10 true and false questions based on the reading.
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Animal Environments

For Students 4th - 6th
In this science activity, students match 15 terms about animals and the environment with the definitions or descriptions. Answers are included.
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Animal Adaptations

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Animal adaptations, such as camouflage, are high-interest topics that are easily integrated into both reading and math curriculum.
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What's Bright Red and Invisible?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students study that very little sunlight penetrates the ocean below depths of 200 meters. They study that no light penetrates the ocean below depths of 1000 meters. They study that the quality of light changes as depth increase
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Reading Comprehension 4: level 9

For Students 8th - 10th
Whether you use this reading comprehension worksheet as the basis for a short lesson on comprehension strategies or for additional practice, the passage about tricky octopi is sure to engage the interest of your young scientists. 
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Follow a Fish

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars choose a fish from anywhere within the Ocean Center. They observe it for a given time, recording its behavior. Students comprehend the concept that living things have individual characteristics that enable them to live in...
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Dull Duck, Dashing Duck

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine the different colors and patterns found on animals bodies, specifically birds. Through discussion, students discover the use of the colors and patterns for protection from predators and the advantages while hunting prey,...
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Wildlife Habitat

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain what a habitat is and describe its four elements. They see how an area's habitat suitability varies with different species of wildlife. They name factors that affect habitat suitability.
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Habitats

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students are introduced to various animals and their habitats. In groups, they must determine which animal skin matches the correct animal and identify the texture. They discuss the reason for the texture and width of the skin to end...
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Crab Multiple Choice Activity

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this crab worksheet, students complete a ten question multiple choice activity pertaining to crabs. Prior knowledge of crabs is assumed.
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Octopus Challenge

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this octopus facts learning exercise, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions that require them to exhibit what they know about octopus.
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Starfish Challenge

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this starfish activity worksheet, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions that require them to exhibit the knowledge they have regarding starfish.
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Starfish Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this starfish vocabulary skills worksheet, students match the 10 starfish-related terms in the word bank to the appropriate definitions.
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Mariposas

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine how animals use camouflage for survival.  In this investigative lesson plan students define vocabulary words and see how it is the environment that controls which adaptations will help in survival. 
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Land Use Issues

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students participate in activities in which they examine land use. They examine the types of animals in a surrounding and how they blend in with the environment. They also examine food resources.
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Coloration

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars conduct an experiment picking out colored vs. camoflauged toothpicks out of the grass. They list and describe different types of coloration and explain how coloration assists the great horned owl and the striped skunk...
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Hide & Seek Butterflies

For Teachers K
Students examine a variety of butterflies and discuss how they believe they get their color variations. In groups, they brainstorm the advantages and disadvantages of their color schemes. To end the lesson, they watch butterflies in...