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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Grassland Animals

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders will be able to cut and paste from Internet into a word document with 100 percent accuracy. They use their research to write a 1-2 paragraph paper about their animal with 90 percent accuracy.
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PPT
Curated OER

Animals and their Habitats

For Teachers K - 2nd
This animal habitat PowerPoint provides beautiful photographs of a rainforest, desert, and grassland habitat, as well as animals native to a rainforest and the desert. The first slide lists rainforest, desert, tundra, and grassland as...
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Nova: Night Creatures of the Kalahari

For Students 9th - 10th
Click on animals that can see in the dark and learn more about them.
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Handout
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara

Kids Do Ecology: Temperate Grasslands

For Students 9th - 10th
At the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, you can learn where temperate grasslands are located! Other information includes grassland weather, plants, animals, people, and more.
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Handout
Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Grassland Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Evergreen Project of the Missouri Botanical Garden provides great information. Click on the animal link on the left. There is an introduction to animals in the grasslands, and then you can read more about each...
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Handout
Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Grassland Animals

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the Missouri Botanical Garden provides animal descriptions of several grassland animals. Content includes pictures, fact sheets, and more.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian National Zoo: Zoogoer Magazine: Grasslands on a Grand Scale

For Students 9th - 10th
Jeffrey P. Cohn's article in Zoogoer Magazine, "Grasslands on a Grand Scale," examines a variety of animals and topics associated with the grasslands. Among the animals discussed are the bison, the great horned owls, the cattle, and more.
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Handout
World Wildlife Fund for Nature

World Wildlife Fund: Our Earth: Ecoregions: Habitats: Grasslands

For Students 3rd - 5th
An introduction to the grasslands. Includes link to information about the types of animals that live in this habitat.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Grassland Animal Adaptations

For Students 4th - 8th
Learn about the different animals that live in tropical and temperate grasslands and how they have adapted to their environment. Also discusses some plant adaptations.
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Website
Other

Nsw Country Areas Program: Grassland

For Students 3rd - 5th
What is a grassland? Learn all about grasslands at this fun and informative site! Content explores the difference between a tropical and a temperate grassland, as well as focusing on the types of animals that live in a grassland.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Beginner's Avl (Alabama Virtual Library)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will research the red fox using an online encyclopedia from the Alabama Virtual Library web site and answer questions provided by the teacher. This is a good lesson for students' first experience in using the AVL.
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Handout
PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Grasslands

For Students 9th - 10th
NatureWorks offers some great information about grasslands. Learn what grasslands are, the difference between tropical and temperate grasslands, the different types of prairie grasses, and grassland animals.