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The Digital Cat-A Purrfect Solution!
Students explore anatomy through digital photography. In this digital art lesson, students create a portfolio of various animals and label the structures of each.
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Tucson Children's Museum Dino Crossword
In this crossword puzzle, students complete a crossword puzzle related to dinosaurs, the era in which dinosaurs lived, and about other animals that lived during that time period.
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Learning Bird Traits
Students draw and label a bird. In this bird traits activity, students learn what traits make a bird different from other animals. Students are taught how to draw a bird and are expected to label the various body parts they drew.
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Do You Know What Animal Made Scratch Mark on This Tree? - Mazes
In this animal maze worksheet, students attempt to determine which of the four animals that are pictured on the page made the scratches on the tree at the end of the maze. They see a four large mammals.
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Whales and Fish: Creatures of the Deep
Practice comparing and contrasting details in informational text with a reading passage about whales. It explains the ways that fish and whales are similar, as well as the ways they are different, and specific characteristics of various...
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Graphs and Charts
A two-part activity incorporating bar graphs and pie charts, young mathematicians can practice their graphing skills. Pupils answer questions using graphs and charts but are also challenged to create their own using a given set of data.
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What is Classification?
In this classification learning exercise, students describe the difference between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens. Then they define taxonomy and explain what was wrong with Aristotle's method of classification. Students also describe...
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Classifying Life
In this classifying life worksheet, students review the 5 kingdoms of organisms by completing 10 matching and 7 fill in the blank questions.
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Tic Tac Know Kingdoms
In this PowerPoint, students participate in a variation of tic tac toe in which questions about the animal and plant kingdom are presented and students move to various locations on the game board.
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Fishes
In this fish activity, students will review the characteristics of fish by comparing the jaws, skeleton, and fertilization of each fish class. Then students will use a phylogenetic tree to compare the groups of fish to ancestral...
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Galaxies and the Universe
If Earth was formed 4600 million years ago, and the sun revolves about the center of the Milky Way once every 250 million years, how many revolutions have occurred? Students answer this question and ten more, all providing students with...
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Bat Ecology
Students, through hands on games and activities, discover how bats live and how bats benefit ecosystems. They play a game designed to show them how echolocation works and another to show how mother bats locate their young through their...
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The Animal Kingdom
For this animal kingdom worksheet, students read for information and determine comprehension. In this matching and fill in the blanks worksheet, students answer twelve questions.
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Animal Classification
In this animal classification worksheet, students read for information and comprehension. In this fill in the blank and multiple choice worksheet, students answer five questions.
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Relative Dating-Telling Time Using Fossils
Students explore how to read fossil range charts. They develop an knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of the fossil record. Students become familiar with the concepts index fossil and fossil range. Students use bar graphs to...
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The Five Classes of Vertebrates
In this vertebrates classification worksheet, 5th graders unscramble 15 words to find answers to clues. Each clue gives information about the characteristics of vertebrates.
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Pets: Oh Behave
Young scholars develop an understanding of how innate and learned behaviors and the environment determine behavior. They see how a variety of factors affects our pet's behavior-including species-specific traits, the environment,...
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Walking Whales
Eighth graders explore the theory of evolution of whales. In this walking whales instructional activity students study a reading packet, divide into groups and respond to given questions.
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Lion
In this lion worksheet, learners explore the group, order and characteristics of a lion. They discover where the lion lives, its lifespan, and general facts about the "king of the jungle." Students then color a picture of a lion. This is...
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How Fire Affects Wildllife
In this ecology lesson, students select an animal to study and read about how this animal adapts to ecological disaster. They complete 5 short answer questions after reading.
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Fearsome Creatures 1
In this wild animals instructional activity, students fill in the blanks or choose the correct words to sentences about wild animals. Students complete 47 blanks.
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It's A Jungle Out There!
Students report on an animal according to its appearance, habitat, and characteristics.
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Hibernation and Torpor
In this hibernation worksheet, students read about the differences between hibernation and torpor. Then students determine how long it takes for an animal to warm up or cool down its body. Students complete 4 short answer questions.
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What Can You Learn About Dinosaurs by Watching an Ostrich?
Students collect a variety of drawings of dinosaurs and maps of a zoo. Students observe an animal in motion during a field trip to a zoo from reproducible worksheets. Students study about the process by which scientists and film...