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Lesson Plan
Illinois Department of Natural Resources

Section Two: Why is Biodiversity Important?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Explore soil, genetic traits, natural resources, and pollution in a series of lessons that focus on biodiversity. Kids complete experiments to learn more about the importance of varied genes and organisms in an ecosystem.
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Lesson Plan
Illinois Department of Natural Resources

Section Three: What's the Status of Biodiversity?

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Biodiversity is essential for every habitat, but many species are at risk due to pollution and other factors. Explore several different species native to Illinois in a gallery walk with posters that learners have created after research...
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Activity
BBC

Walking with Dinosaurs

For Teachers K - 8th Standards
Breath new life into your class's study of dinosaurs with this extensive collection of materials. Offering everything from a printable T-rex mask, word searches, and connect-the-dots activities to informational handouts, hands-on...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Cry Of The Wolf

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students inverstigate the history of wolves and how they have changed throughout the ages. The movement to eradicate the wolves is studied and students are asked to explain their opinion of it. This is given after spending the time to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Discovering Dinosaurs

For Teachers K - 5th
Students discuss theories about dinosaurs. In this dinosaurs and fossils lesson, students explore different scientific theories regarding dinosaurs and fossils. Students  then come up with their own theories about why dinosaurs went...
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PPT
Curated OER

Sunken Lesson: Animal Adaptation

For Teachers 4th - 5th
This animal adaptation PowerPoint provides definitions and photographs of vocabulary related to how the animals that live in particular biomes protect themselves. It also explains the cause/effect relationship between the inability of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Are Endangered Species?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concepts of endangered and extinct animals. In this animal protection instructional activity, students discuss and define the words endangered, extinct, and habitat. Students share why they think it is important to...
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Curated OER

It's all Interconnected

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students participate in a number of activities to investigate the food web, species extinction, predators and prey, and biological diversity.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Endangered Species

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate endangered species to discover reasons for the extinction. Resources are examined to determine preventive measures for the endangerment. The unit contains four lessons.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Forest Food Web Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students gain knowledge of food webs and ecological interconnections in the forest, and place different life forms in their proper place in a food chain. Students appreciate the balance of nature and how humans are affected by extinct...
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Worksheet
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

What is Groundwater? Our Underground Water Supply

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Learn about the consequences of groundwater with a lesson about the different ways California handles water conservation and pollution. After reading a passage about the water table, learners apply what they have read to six...
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Organizer
Curated OER

Which Animals?

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this animal comparison worksheet, students will fill in a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting the Sabre-toothed tiger and the Bengal tiger.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Urbanization and Native Hawaiian Plants

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research plants native to the Hawaiian Islands. Using the plants, they identify its purpose in the watershed and ways to help protect them from extinction. They survey a area of land and discover ways in which to bring...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Visit the Virtual Zoo!

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science instructional activity, students visit a virtual zoo through a given website. Students answer 3 questions about extinct species, 4 questions about pandas and monkeys, and 2 questions about amphibians.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Species on the Edge

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students examine sea turtles. In this endangered species lesson, students analyze sea turtle habitats. Students hypothesize why sea turtles could go extinct.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tocobaga Indians of Tampa Bay

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students identify characteristics of the Tocobaga Indian tribe, compare and contrast this tribe to other Florida tribes, and explain why the Tocobaga tribe became extinct.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Indicator Species

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore the ecological foundation of India's and ways to save the forests, water and the India tiger. After a lecture on identifying a healthy forest and the importance of the animals, students participate in activities to...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Dinosaur Math

For Students 4th - 5th
In this math worksheet students add four digit numbers with and without regrouping. Worksheet pictures a variety of dinosaurs and other extinct animals.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Tiger Coloring Page

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this endangered tiger coloring activity, learners examine a black line drawing of a tiger. Students color the picture and draw its natural habitat around it.
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PPT
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Chalkboard Challenge

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Here's a terrific Jeopardy-style game that's designed for 3rd and 4th grade students of science. The topics include living things, animals, plants, matter, and "hodge-podge." The questions are all age appropriate, and there is an...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fossil Kit I - Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Here is a 14-page lesson plan that deftly outlines a wonderful educational experience for your youngsters. In it, students learn about a variety of animals that have left behind clues of their existence in fossil form. Many excellent...
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Lesson Plan
Desert Discoveries

Invent - A - Saurus

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders get to invent their own dinosaur! This is done by using a very clever worksheet embedded in the plan. The worksheet leads them through naming their dinosaur by having explanations of the Latin terminology that is used with...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Real Ice Ages Longer Than Movie Ice Ages

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
If your class's knowledge of the Ice Age is limited to animated movies, use this lesson plan to strengthen their knowledge. After sharing what they know about the Ice Age, young readers explore a news article seeking to dispel...
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PPT
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Mountains

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An informative and well-designed presentation on mountains awaits your geographers. Excellent photographs from mountain ranges around the world are includedin this terrific PowerPoint. The last slide effectively sums up what pupils have...

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