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Newton's Apple: Spotted Owls and Old Growth Forests Lesson PlanNewton's Apple: Spotted Owls and Old Growth Forests Lesson Plan
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PBS
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9th - 10th
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Science
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1040L
Lesson Plan

Newton's Apple: Spotted Owls and Old Growth Forests

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This site from Newton's Apple, which is a production of KTCA Twin Cities Public Television, provides insights, vocabulary, resources and a main activity on the subject of why owls are threatened.

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Concepts

biodiversity, owls

Additional Tags

coniferous forest biome, coniferous forest fauna, monoculture, monocultures, old growth forests, second-growth forests, snags, ecosystem, habitat, coniferous (taiga) forest biome

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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