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4-H Goat Activity Page

For Students 4th - 7th
In this 4-H animal science worksheet, students will work with their parents and leaders to plan and implement a goat-raising project. Students can get information about goats and keep track of their progress on this worksheet.
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Global Greenup

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students utilize satellite images to track the life cycle of vegetational growth over a large area. Animal migratory patterns are compared to this cycle.
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Weather Patterns and Seasonal Changes

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Get your class outside to observe their surroundings with a lesson plan highlighting weather patterns and seasonal changes. First, learners take a weather walk to survey how the weather affects animals, people, plants, and trees during...
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Managing Wildlife

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discuss the current conditions of wildlife in New England. Students explore how animals are tracked and how their population is managed.
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Mallard's Wetland Olympics

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students observe plants and animals of a wetland and then compare their ability to move with different animals by undertaking the exercises on a downloadable page.
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The Mouse and The Motorcycle: Novel Study

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A mouse on a motorcycle—what could possibly go wrong? Using the novel study that accompanies Beverly Cleary's The Mouse and the Motorcycle, pupils complete a brief vocabulary activity and then answer questions about the text. Next,...
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Food Chain

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the concept of food chains. In this food chain instructional activity, 4th graders discuss what different animals eat and how they are all connected. Students explore a garden and the environment around them to...
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I Like to Move It

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
What do lemurs do best? They move! Lemurs like to jump, run, hop, and climb and it's your class's job to document seven fun lemur behaviors. The class starts by discussing why lemurs are considered primates, and then they isolate seven...
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Fry Lists

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Keep track of your learners' mastered sight words with 11 sets of words. Four columns list the words, as well as three columns for you to mark the date of mastery. 
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Deer Tracks

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use satellite images to track to movement patterns of deer and examine deer behavior. They write stories about a day in the life of a field scientist.
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Adopt An Animal

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students view slides of pictures of rare animals and make predictions about them based on the characteristics they see. In this animals lesson plan, students then research one of the animals and present their findings to the class.
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Rain Forests

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils investigate the animals and plants of the rainforests. They define rainforest, watch and discuss a National Geographic video, and write a short story.
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Information Safari

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students go to the library and research animals using features in the text to help them organize information. In this locating information lesson plan, students complete this task in teams.
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The Circus Train

For Teachers K
Pupils study the safety message "Stay Back from tracks and trains!" students count animals and train cars, and repeat The Circus Train poem
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Critical Thinking: What if There Were No Clocks?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars examine the importance of tracking time. In this critical thinking lesson, students discuss how people and animals track time and consider the consequences if people did not have clocks or calendars.
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Snug in the Snow

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore how snow helps animals survive in the wild. In this animal science lesson, students review key vocabulary words and discuss types of animal adaptations. Students construct shoebox to simulate the snowy environment where...
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Sounds of the Wetlands

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students identify the sounds of different bird calls. In this biology lesson, students create a sound map. They explain how this method is important in tracking wildlife.
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Taller, Shorter, or Longer?

For Students Pre-K - K
In this Language Arts worksheet, students read a poem called "Taller, Shorter, or Longer?" The poem includes movements and comparisons of different animals.
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Let's Pretend

For Students Pre-K - K
In this Language Arts worksheet, students read a poem called "Let's Pretend." The poem includes descriptions of different animals, such as a bird and a horse.
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Tracking Endangered Animals by Satellite

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars differentiate between endangered and threatened species. They examine how species are tracked by satellite.
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Animal Track Mural

For Teachers K
Students create a mural depicting who they are. They observe and describe animals in their local environment and relate themselves to an animal. They also discuss how animals show proof of them being in a certain area.
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Creating Dinosaurs from Tracks

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars learn how scientists compare dinosaur tracks to those of modern animals, how scientists create a full model of a dinosaur from its tracks and how the age of dinosaur tracks is determined.
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Investigation 4 - Dinosaurs Tracks

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders make inferences and interpretations from sets of dinosaur tracks. They describe Utah fossils and how they were formed. Partners trade their sketches of tracks and try to guess which dinosaur it belonged to.
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Making Tracks

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the fossil footprints of two and four legged dinosaurs. Using this information, they try to determine how the dinosaurs lived their lives. They use their own walking pattern to compare it to the dinosaurs and...

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