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Alabama Wildlife Federation

Life in a Pond

For Teachers K - 5th
What living things call an aquatic habitat home? Young learners consider the question after they discuss the characteristics of a typical pond habitat. They identify an animal and then determine if a pond would have all the components to...
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Curated OER

Small Pond Creatures

For Teachers K - 6th
Students complete a unit about the different creatures that can live in a small pond habitat. They create a glossary, create a class Small Pond mural, develop a Frog Fact File, read a variety of books, and conduct research for a report...
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Curated OER

Pond-life Safari

For Teachers K
Students determine the living and non-living parts of pond life. In this pond life lesson, students examine the plants, animals, and insects that live in ponds. They look through a variety of print media, cut out pictures, and arrange...
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Curated OER

Animal Habitat Dioramas

For Teachers K - 5th
What a better way to have learners show what they know than with a diorama? Kids research an animal, its habitat, ecosystem, and environment in order to create a three-dimensional diorama. Have older children write a short paper on their...
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Curated OER

Habitat Sunprints

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars recognize various habitats and where they are found.  In this habitat sunprints lesson, students observe the contents of habitats and record what the sunprint might represent.  Young scholars use blueprint paper and small...
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Curated OER

Pond and Pond Organisms

For Teachers K - 7th
Students explore pond ecosystems.  In this pond organism activity, students will use pond water and a plastic bad in order to locate and identify freshwater organisms.  The activity is designed for younger grades, but includes an...
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Curated OER

My Happy Habitat

For Teachers K - 1st
Students observe and discuss the Idaho state quarter to begin an activity in which they define and draw different types of habitats. They discuss the habitats that the migrating Peregrine falcon, which appears on the Idaho quarter,...
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Curated OER

Pond Animals During The Seasons

For Teachers K
Students interact with a CD Rom to examine pond life. In this pond life activity, students access a CD Rom entitled "Sammy's Science House CD Rom" in order to see pond life during the different season of the year. They study the...
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Curated OER

Who lives with Mallard?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore how all living things have needs that are obtained from their surroundings. They identify the surroundings where an animal or plant lives is its habitat. Students identify that a habitat is a community of living and...
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Curated OER

Froggy Fun

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students exploring about frogs and their environment. They describe what camouflage is and why it is useful to frogs especially in the environment that frogs live in. They also draw a picture of a frog in its habitat.
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Curated OER

The Living Environment

For Teachers K
Students investigate animals and their environments. In this animal similarities and differences lesson plan, students explore animal adaptations and features and their habitats. Students get into groups to discuss the habitat and how...
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Curated OER

Ribbit! Ribbit!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners research a frog's life cycle and habitat using books, the Internet and lecture. Students make origami frogs, write letters to Toad from Arnold Lobel's "Frog and Toad" and participate in a simulated camouflage activity.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Sprinkles 5

For Students K - 2nd
In this environment learning exercise, students read the information and complete the survey about their own local habitats and some of the others in Florida.
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Curated OER

Martian Earth Tours

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study a variety of global wetland habitats, their similarities and differences. They examine the variety of life that such wetlands support and determine that many animals and plants are adapted to life in wetlands, that...
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Curated OER

Adding More

For Students Pre-K - K
In this addition worksheet, students solve six problems in which objects in a set are counted and additional objects are added to these, according to directions. Students write how many in all.
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Curated OER

Aquatic Life

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students explore aquatic life. In this science instructional activity, students visit an aquatic ecosystem and collect animals found there. Students create a food chain for the aquatic ecosystem.
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Curated OER

Animal Tracks

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students study animals. In this science lesson plan, students make plaster casts of animals that live in the area. Students identify the tracks.
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Curated OER

Where Do All the Animals Live?

For Teachers K
Students study animal habitats and make a poster showing two animals, two birds, and two reptiles in their habitats.
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Curated OER

"Habitats"

For Teachers K - 5th
Students complete a unit of lessons on animals and animal conservation. They observe a square meter of ground outside the school, set up a model environment, analyze an owl pellet, grow bread mold, and explore various websites.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Pond Insect Investigation

For Teachers K - 1st
Insects are found in every habitat. Young scholars will learn about the life cycle of insects by exploring Minnesota ponds and the insects that live in them.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: What Is in the Pond?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is a scientific investigation where students establish what macro-invertebrates live in a local water habitat (stream, pond, aquarium), and predict how healthy the water is. They then test the water quality, record the data, and...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Fish Habitats

For Teachers K - 1st
During this instructional activity, young scholars spend time looking at pictures of fish and their habitat, talking about what all animals need to live, making a poster of a fish habitat, and finally visiting a lake.
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Handout
PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Swamps

For Students Pre-K - 1st
What characteristics make a swamp a swamp? This site features information on the Great Dismal Swamp, Conifer Swamps, Okefenokee Swamps, Shrub Swamps, Hardwood Swamps, and Cypress Swamps. This site also offers some great photographs of...
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PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Wetlands

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Did you know that wetlands are frequently used as resting stops for migrating birds? This is just one of the many interesting facts found within this educational resource. This site features information on the characteristics, types,...

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