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Impact of Invasive Species on Food Webs and Ecosystems

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore how invasive species affect the Great Lakes. In this science lesson, 5th graders research invasive species and create a food chain involving the invasive species. Students discuss how the environment is affected by...
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Illinois Endangered Species- Bald Eagle and River Otter Finger Puppets

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this endangered species worksheet, learners follow directions to color black-lined pictures of a bald eagle and a river otter. They cut out the pictures to make finger puppets of these species, which are endangered in the state of...
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Endangered Animals Podcast

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research endangered animals. In this endangered animals lesson, students research the Internet for information. Students use this information to write a report and practice reading for fluency and expression. Students record...
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Reading Skills: Endangered Species

For Students 4th - 8th
In this endangered species worksheet, learners read passages, match vocabulary to definitions, answer short answer questions, and more. Students complete 4 activities.
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Cardboard Tree and Endangered Animals Lesson

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create endangered animal figures and their habitats.
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Species Diversity in Ecosystems with Different Techniques of Land Management

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners visit numerous places to help in their understanding of Ecology. For this biology lesson plan, students will learn about characteristics and how to identify numerous plants and animals. This lesson allows for many field trip...
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Examining Endangered Species

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Middle school environmental science classes research the threatened, endangered, and extinct organisms listed for their state. They design and construct a poster of the information gleaned and write an essay about how they might be able...
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Endangered Species - Can We Help Them Survive?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils, in groups, select an animal that has been identified as endangered and then identify its characteristics. They discuss why the animal has become endangered, evaluate adaptations for its survival and include an illustration.
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Exploring Wyoming Species Habitats

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners are introduced to the concept of species habitats and ranges. They introduced to ArcView GIS as a tool for mapping. Pupils use query data for species withina county, elevation, range, rivers and streams, land cover, and etc....
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Native Species Restoration: Is Saving One Species Hurting Another?

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students investigate the effect of human activities upon the environment. The studying experience encourages students to think about the issues involved in native species restoration.
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How Do Species Become Extinct?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine reasons that animals become extinct. They participate in a simulation to discover that animals loss of home is the main factor that puts species near extinction in North America. Students examine over-hunting and...
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Whale Watchers

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students research physical characteristics and ocean habitats of common species of whale. They create artwork illustrating characteristics of a particular species of whale using a crayon resist technique. Students identify different...
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Devastating Deforestation Triarama

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students become familiar with the process of deforestation and its impact upon rainforests and people who depend on them. They research endangered and already-extinct species of rainforest animals and plants. Students fabricate a 3D...
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Eat an Alien Invader

For Teachers 1st - 5th
If you are looking for a lesson about invasive species to ocean habitats, you have arrived! Introduce the concept to learners and have them read an article about marine invasive species. Vocabulary, relevant web links, and a cute...
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Penguin Parade

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Young scholars research the different species of penguins, discovering where the various types live, breed, and how they survive. They compare and contrast characteristics of various types of penguins such as size, weight, coloring, and...
PPT
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How Plants are Named

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Genus and species are the 2 categories from which the plant classifications are derived and combined to create a scientific name.  The rules for capitalization and underlining are given in these clean and logical slides.  
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NOAA

Endangered Species Origami

For Students 3rd - 5th
Make sea turtle or whale origami in a hands-on activity that provides instructions for folding and facts for learning about each.
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Rain Garden Species Selection

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
The activity really comes to life within its intended unit on starting a rain garden. Working in groups, participants research native plants and coordinate them with the conditions in the designated garden area. Give the class access to...
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Sorting Finch Species

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Don't just tell your class about Darwin's finches ... show them! Sort some of science's most famous birds using an interactive lesson. Learners try their hand at classifying finches using song, sonogram, and beak appearance, as well as...
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Endangered Animals in Texas

For Teachers K - 5th
Students research endangered animal in the library and on the Internet for information on its description, habitat, forces causing its decline, and programs to help it; students create slide show about the animal that contains a clay...
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It's a Jungle Out There: How Species Survive in the Jungle

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the different adaptation and skills of jungle species. In this ecology lesson, students play an interactive online game where they match species with their adaptation. They research about a specific adaptation and...
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Species at Risk: Recovery Teams to the Rescue!

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders discuss how certain species and plants are deemed endangered. They work together in conservation recovery teams to research an endangered species. Then they explore efforts to make sure that the existence of these species...
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Let's go to the Video Tape!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Using actual data from a deep-sea video survey, high school marine biologists consider the biodiversity, compare species richness between two communities, and learn to calculate the diversity index. The lesson plan is all-inclusive,...
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Snake in the Grass: Capture/Recapture Activity

For Teachers 6th
Learners estimate the total number of species in Ecuador using the capture/recapture method. They collect data about each species and act as members of a science expedition to determine the total number of species by using mathematical...

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