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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Plum's Creature Connector

For Students K - 1st
This PBS Kids activity is an extension of a Plum Landing episode featuring food webs. Students will learn basic information about how animals are interdependent. Students will help different animals survive in their different habitats
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NOAA

Noaa: Ngdc Noaa: Family Disaster Plan Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take this five-question, online quiz to find out how much you know about emergency preparedness for a natural disaster.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Busy Bees

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research bees and how their specialized body parts help them in survival and contribute to the success of plant survival and reproduction.
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Lesson Plan
The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: 4 Ls1 1: Internal and External Structures

For Teachers 4th
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard 4-LS1-1: internal and external structures.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "World Without Fish" by Mark Kurlansky

For Students 9th - 10th
Selected (8) reading passages (grades 6-10) to pair with "World Without Fish" by Mark Kurlansky. Mark Kurlansky discusses how humans treat the oceans and the fish that live in them, and what the world will likely look like if fish...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'dell

For Students 5th - 9th
Karana's tribe has lived on the Island of the Blue Dolphins for centuries, but a tragedy forces them to leave. When Karana gets left behind, she must learn to live alone. Selected (10) reading passages (grades 5-9) to pair with the novel...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

For Students 4th - 9th
In the novel "Frightful," a peregrine falcon, has spent most of her life depending on a human and must now learn how to survive in the wild on her own. Selected (8) reading passages (grades 4-9) to pair with "Frightful's Mountain" by...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Eight Days: A Story of Haiti" by Edwidge Danticat

For Students 5th - 8th
In this tale, for young readers, award-winning Edwidge Danticat tells the story of Junior, a seven-year-old boy trapped beneath his house after the Port-au-Prince earthquake and his rescue. While trapped during the earthquake, Junior...
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Handout
US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Climate Change: Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how plants and animals adapt to changes in ecosystems.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Squids Outsmart Their Predators

For Students 9th - 10th
Carly Anne York explains how the stealthy cephalopods have mastered deep sea survival.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Creature Comforts

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
What do living things need to survive? In this unit, students explore different habitats and the adaptations made by living things to survive. Students will create a website matching an animal's adaptations to its environment. Then, they...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Living in the Wild

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this lesson, learners will compare and contrast how the Prehistoric Americans lived off the land at Russell Cave and how Sam Gribley from "My Side of the Mountain" lived off the land. This lesson plan is made possible through the ALEX...
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Lesson Plan
Utah STEM Foundation

Utah Stem Action Center: Sorting Living Things

For Students K - 1st
Living things live in places that have what they need to survive. Since fish don't breathe air, they need to live in an ocean. That one is pretty obvious, but what about different kinds of trees? Can all animals that breathe air live...
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Evolution: Variations and Adaptations

For Students 9th - 10th
Students discover that variation in plants allows some varieties to survive in near-drought conditions. Next, students learn that different types of rabbits prefer to eat different varieties of plants. Students make the connection...
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 7.14 Plant Adaptations

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about some adaptations plants have in order to survive.
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Interactive
Other

Biology Simulations: Natural Selection

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation explores the survival of prey species individuals based on their coloring and the environment.
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Lesson Plan
Google

Louisiana Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Grade 6: Hatchet: Unit Files

For Teachers 6th
A Google Drive folder with instructional presentations, discussion questions, student activities, and assessments for the book, Hatchet.
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Website
Other

Waynes' Word: Adaptations

For Students 6th - 8th
Learn how organisms mimic others to survive.
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Website
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: The "Brian" Books: Teachers' Guide

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A message to teachers from author Gary Paulsen, teaching ideas for thematic activities, and interdisciplinary possibilities are all part of this teachers' guide for the whole series of "Brian" books.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Grizzly

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This PBS Kids activity is an extension of a Plum Landing episode featuring the grizzly bear. Students will learn basic information about the grizzly bear; students will also use online drawing tools to design a scene with a grizzly bear...