Academy of American Poets
Teach This Poem: “The Everglades” by Campbell McGrath
Florida's Everglades come alive for young environmental scientists as they watch a video taken in the park and read a poem about the watery paradise. After a careful study of the two resources, class members consider the function of the...
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Activity 2: Disappearing Drainage - the Incredible Shrinking Everglades Watershed
Students examine drastic changes in Florida Everglades watershed, compare and contrast two watershed maps, discuss effects of addition of agriculture, loss of wetlands, and introduction of Water Conservation Areas, and predict condition...
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The Everglades in Danger!
Learners are explained that the Florida Everglades are in danger. They explore the characteristics of the Florida Everglades. Students investigate about ways they can help protect the Florida Everglades. They are shown where Florida is...
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Drawing Conclusions and Comparing/Contrasting - The Everglades
Learners complete activities to compare, contrast, and draw conclusions for a lesson plan about the Florida Everglades. In this drawing conclusions lesson plan, students watch videos about a scientists study of pig frogs that live in the...
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Human Impact on the Everglades Environment
Third graders research changes the Army Corps made in Everglades, focus on the human impact on the environment, design graphic organizers, summary statements, develop a Florida map of the Everglades region and give a presentation about...
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Everglades
In this wetlands worksheet, students will research and answer 11 questions about the Florida Everglades. Students will create a report.
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Everglades Forever
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Everglades Forever. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions,...
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Everglades Fun
In this science and geography worksheet, students investigate the vocabulary pertaining to the ecosystem of the Everglades in South Florida. Students unscramble 9 words and find 12 words in a word search puzzle.
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Conservation Critters Anonymous
Students research information about the Florida Everglades and discuss why conservation efforts are important in its preservation.
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A Hungry Cat Searches
Students listen to story Panther: Shadow of the Swamp, and examine how loss of habitat impacts panthers in the Everglades; students alphabetize names of plants and animals found in the Everglades by initial and second letter.
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Create A Park Map
Students design ultimate park experience for Florida families as they demonstrate their knowledge of map legend skills.
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The Everglades
Learners research the Everglades. In this Everglades lesson, students select an animal or plant to research and work collaboratively in small groups to prepare a presentation.
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A Geographic Study of Florida's Diverse Community
Eighth graders identify major population centers and their demographic features using an outline map of Florida and the Internet to.
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Lesson 6: Natural Resources
Students create a travel poster about a favorite place in Florida. In this Florida lesson plan, students research their favorite place and use desktop publishing to create a poster. They also make a brochure using Microsoft Publisher.
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Endangered Species- Florida Panther
Students investigate the concept of the conservation of the Florida Panther and examine the effects of the Everglades water restoration project. They conduct a web based activity that includes the following: Listing what they know,...
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Students explore Marjory Stoneman Douglas and her contribution to the ecosystems and National Parks.
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The Seminoles
Students explore the Southeast Woodland region and culture of the Seminole Indians using video, art projects, books, maps and discussion.
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To Walk the Sky Path
Fifth graders use maps of Florida. They locate places from a list on their map. Students use the places mentioned in the book, "To Walk the Sky Path," and locate them on the map. Students should have labeled a minimum of 10 places, and...
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Freshwater Fish and Fish-keeping
In this online quiz worksheet, students answer a set of questions about freshwater fish. Answers may be submitted for review by clicking a link at the bottom of the page.
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Capitalization
In this capitalization worksheet, students read sentences and underline words that should be capitalized. They identify the first word in a sentence, proper nouns, and titles. There are 20 sentences on this one-page worksheet. An...
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Hyper for Expository Writing!
Fifth graders use the internet to research a plant or animal they read about in "The Talking Earth". Using notes, they develop a graphic organizer and use the main topics to create a HyperStudio stack. Using all of this information,...
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Nasa Classroom of the Future: Florida Everglades
This site is full of information and activities to help learn about the Florida Everglades, a unique wetland environment, and its future.
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Read Works: Pythons Invade the Florida Everglades
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the problems pythons, a nonnative species, are causing in the Florida Everglades. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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