Natural Communication

Students are introduced to raptors and their role in the environment. They identify three characteristics of raptors and list several types of raptors found in nature. They discuss their positive and negative experiences with raptors and...

Students use tools to represent bird beaks and pick up different types of food with them in order to discover which beak would help the bird survive depending on their food type.

Students become familiar with common categories of animals and discover adaptation patterns and structures in animals that help them survive in different environments. Students identify major structures of common animals.

This thorough site contains a wide variety of information about the Arctic fox. Topics include where it lives, home adaptations, appearance, the young, food, enemies protection, and interesting facts.

What do you need to survive? Food, water, shelter? Animals need the same things and they live in places that can provide them. This informative site looks at the characteristics, range, habitat, food, reproduction and behavior of the red...

Third graders create an ecosystem for red wiggler worms to observe as they work on a complete unit.

In this interactive biology worksheet, students explore facts about animals. Students answer twelve multiple choice questions about animals and their characteristics.

Students describe unique adaptations of organisms that live in the coral reef habitat, read various books pertaining to coral reefs and ocean life, and construct a wheel demonstrating the relationships between certain coral reef...

Students study reasons for and examples of bird migration as a behavioral adaptation. They investigate the Bernoulli's Principles.

Students examine how animals protect themselves from predators and camouflage themselves. They participate in a simulation in which they locate red and green yarn "caterpillars," organize their data, and generate a bar graph using...