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Read Works

Read Works: Animals Get Ready

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how different types of animals prepare for winter. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works

Read Works: Winter Is Coming

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the different ways animals deal with dropping temperatures in the winter. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: How Animals Prepare for Winter

For Teachers 2nd
Learn about animals that migrate or hibernate.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Get Ready for Winter

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about animals that hibernate throughout the winter. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Animals Get Ready

For Students 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text exploring different ways animals prepare for winter. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Website
PBS

Nh Pbs: Wildlife Journal Jr: Tracking Winter Wildlife

For Students 3rd - 8th
Venture through the winter woods with ecologist Sue Morris and learn how to find clues to identify signs of wildlife. See tracks and markings from moose, bear, and coyote.
Handout
San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Polar Bears

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen to a roar (with RealPlayer) and learn about the lives of polar bears. [0:52]
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Hibernation "A Time to Sleep"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site is filled with creative and educational activities for your unit on hibernation. These activities include hibernation clocks, KWL chart, hibernation mural and more.
Unit Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Songs and Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site features an extensive list of poems and songs for every event during the school year. Explore the seasons, colors, holidays, and more.
Graphic
Curated OER

Spruce Forest in Winter

For Students 3rd - 8th
Here you can find a great fact sheet on the taiga biome! Learn what the taiga is, where it's located, and the types of plants and animals that live there!
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 1: The Year at Maple Hill Farm

For Teachers 1st
First graders learn about change over the course of a year, investigating and exploring the four seasons and what the changing seasons mean for humans and animals. They learn about animal behavior and patterns during the seasons,...
Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Bedouin

For Students 9th - 10th
Bedouin societies are found in the arid steppe regions of Arabia and North Africa and along the margins of rain-fed cultivation. Bedouin groups move their animals to areas where pasture is regularly found. Often these societies plant...
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Other

Jean Craighead George's Website

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This website is about author Jean Craighead George. Offers information on her background, her books, she gives hints about becoming a writer. She also has a question and answer section where she answers questions that people most often...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Hero Elementary: Super Seasons Snapshots

For Students K - 1st
Children can look around to practice making observations and to notice details they might otherwise not notice. There are scenes for each season - spring, summer, fall, and winter. Explore a park to learn how animals and plants change...
Graphic
Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies, 1898

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1898 of Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. The map includes an inset map of Cuba and the Isthmus of Nicaragua. "The surface of the Rocky Mountain highland in Mexico is quite similar to that of the great plateau...

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