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Water Quality and Dissolved Oxygen

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the relationship between dissolved oxygen and organic materials and aquatic organisms. This is a 3-lesson plan series in which students explore dissolved oxygen and then design an experiment testing the effects of...
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Animals: Insects

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners use the Internet to examine insects and their relatives. They participate in online games and discover insect recipes.
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Animals: Ladybugs

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students use the Internet to study the ladybug. They examine their life cycle, anatomy and their habitat. They participate in interactive games and view photographs.
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Trees at Work... Just Look!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the significance of trees. They collect magazine pictures of animals that live in trees, list products that are made from trees, collect twigs and create an item using the sticks, and bring in and discuss food from...
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Create a Soil Aggregate

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students simulate the conditions which occur in a soil aggregate. They explain how IPM affects the environment. They identify the cast of characteristics to develop their aggregate.
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Hollow Hilton

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pupils identify animals that depend on their environment for survival. They describe the relationship between living things. They draw or write an explanation of their findings.
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The Grouchy Ladybug By Eric Carle

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete a unit about ladybugs based on Eric Carle's, The Grouchy Ladybug. They complete comprehension questions, categorization activities, Venn diagrams, and choral readings of Susan M. Paprocki', Little Red Bug. As they...
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Development in Drosophila melanogaster

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the least familiar aspect of development in Drosophila melanogaster; the development of the pupa. Students isolate and culture "First-day" pupae. They are dissected daily to study the progressive developmental changes.
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Lucy the Changing Ladybug

For Teachers K
Students listen as the teacher reads "Lucy the Changing Ladybug." Students use construction paper to create a large leaf which they divode and number four sections. Each section will be illustrated to represent one stage of a ladybug's...
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Learning About Classification

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the three main organismal divisions. Students classify organisms by invertebrates, vertebrates, and plants. They observe the differences and similarities between these groups.
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Life Cycles

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate the stages of animal life cycles. They examine an egg and compare it to an inanimate object, read a booklet about the life cycle and define key vocabulary terms, and observe a mealworm. Students then design a...
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Diversity And Adaptations Of Organisms

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders demonstrate the processes of science by posing questions and investigating phenomena through language, methods and instruments of science. They study the body features or systems of several animals.
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Arthropod Mouth Parts and Food

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify the different types of mouths arthropods have for eating various types of food. Given photographs of the different types of arthropods, students identify which mouth they have and what type of food they can eat with...
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Complete Metamorphosis

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students use a map and colored pins to plot the migration path of Monarch butterflies. They use data found at the Journey North website. Commas are also used in the activity to show how they are put in a series of words using butterfly...
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Tree Friends

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners are introduced to tree structure and use. They identify their special tree using all senses except sight. Students identify six different internal parts within a cross section of tree trunk (bark, phloem, xylem, cambium,...
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Desert Animal Cards

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this desert animals vocabulary worksheet, students see and study 28 cards containing a name of a desert animal. There are no directions.
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Word Search: Ladybugs

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this insect word search learning exercise, students find 13 words pertaining to ladybugs. There is a word bank provided for this puzzle which is shaped like a bug.
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Rain Forest Alliterations

For Students 3rd - 5th
The rain forest alliterations activity has students read about alliterations, then complete 4 alliterations about the rain forest and draw an illustration of one of them. The close with an acrositc poem with the words "rain forest."
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The Six Kingdoms

For Students 9th - 12th
In this kingdoms learning exercise, students compare the six different kingdoms. Students complete 2 short answer questions based on this information.
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Woodland Math Facts

For Students 5th - 7th
In this Woodland math facts worksheet, learners study and examine woodland weights of trees and shrubs, explore invertebrates and draw a bar chart to chart their findings.
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Oddball Out- Finding the Item that Does Not Belong- Invertebrates

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this visual comparison worksheet, student look at 4 rows of invertebrates. They determine which one does not belong in the row. They check their work with the answers that are given at the bottom of the page.
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Desert Similes

For Students 4th - 5th
In this desert similes fill-in-the blank worksheet, students read the definition of a simile at the top of the page. They write 10 similes using desert words that are shown in a box at the top of the page. They draw a picture of one of...
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Trials of Life: Living Together

For Students 7th - 9th
For this trials for life worksheet, students fill in the charts as they watch a video. Students identify the types of symbiosis as mutualism, commensalism, parasitism, or predator-prey relationship.
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What Is Your Favorite Insect?

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this insect survey learning exercise, students utilize tally marks as they survey their classmates, teachers, parents and friends on what their favorite insect is.

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