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Wolf Habitat
Students identify their own basic needs for food, water, shelter and space in a suitable arrangement. They generalize that wolves and people have similar basic needs.
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Mission Planning: Geography
Students investigate the use of latitude and longitude to locate specific locations on Earth and evaluate that location as a potential landing site for researchers, terrestrial or alien space missions.
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Land Use Issues
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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Animals
Second graders discuss the term "endangered". They identify the reasons some animals are in danger of being wiped out. They discover ways humans can help the species survive.
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Breaking News English: One Way Ticket to Mars Mission
In this English worksheet, students read "One Way Ticket to Mars Mission," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 10 true or false questions about the selection.
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Population Dynamics
Young scholars watch a video on population dynamics. They conduct an experiment where they fill up a designated space with students. They recreate multiplying rabbits using beans.
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WALK, DON'T RUN
1. Bring two quarts of moist soil, a cake pan, a sprinkling can of water and a quart of grass clippings to class.
2. Share background material, and introduce the word "erosion."
3. Prepare a small model hill by mounding the soil in the...
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Plant and Animal Adaptations
Fourth graders identify behavioral and structural adaptations to plant and animal life. In this unit overview, 4th graders discuss the importance of variation and adaptation in a species survival. This is a unit overview and does not...
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Adaptation Scavenger Hunt
Fourth graders recognize the specific adaptations of living things and relate them to survival within the animals environment. They study common plants and animals found in Utah environments and how they have adapted to the environment...
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"Home Sweet Home?"
Students research an endangered animal's habitat, investigate the survival problems. They research the animal's zoo life. They research some programs of reintroduction and chart the pros and cons of each.
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Greenhouse Effect and Temperature
Students look at a visualization of absorbed solar energy and discuss its role in maintaining surface temperature. They examine greenhouse effect and its role in maintaining a climate in which humans can survive.
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Monitor Marine Migrants
Students, in groups, track the seasonal journey of a species, such as a shorebird, sea turtle, or marine mammal, using various sources of migration data
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African Elephant Overpopulation Problem
Students investigate the problem of elephant overpopulation. They identify the components of the watering hole as found in Addo Elephant National Park. They also pretend to be part of the environment and act out the part in a class drama...
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Radish Seed Garden
Fifth graders explore the effects of overpopulation in an ecosystem while applying the scientific method. They discuss overpopulation and its meaning. Students as an organism competes for space in an overpopulated area. They plant...
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Scramble
In this literacy worksheet, 5th graders unscramble the words and write them in the spaces provided. The answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Scramble
In this literacy worksheet, learners unscramble the letters to form new words and write them in the space provided for the 19 words.
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Scramble
In this literacy worksheet, students unscramble the words and rewrite the answers in the spaces provided for the six questions. The solution is found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Scramble
In this literacy worksheet, students unscramble the letters to correctly spell the words and then write the new word in the spaces provided for the six words.
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Mythology Scramble
In this mythology scramble, students unscramble 41 vocabulary words dealing with mythology. They write the words in the space provided. A link to the answer sheet is provided.
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Scramble
In this literacy worksheet, students find the correct spelling for each word and rewrite the new word in the spaces provided. The answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Munching Mark Scramble
In this literacy worksheet, students unscramble the letters and write the new words in the spaces provided. The answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Weather Records
Young scholars write newspaper articles using a "weather record" worksheet and information they find in newspapers.
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How the Environment Effects our Feelings
First graders compare images and discuss their feelings created by an artist's work. They explore the correlation between experiencing feelings in art and literature and feelings caused by changes in weather.
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Scramble
In this literacy activity, students unscramble the words and put them in the correct order. The answers are then written in the spaces provided.