Curated OER
Map-A-Buddy
Students investigate the concept of tracking and spatial movements of animals in relation to the environment in which they live. They participate in an interactive activity by tracking one another over a pre-defined region, record the...
Curated OER
Track Traces
Students explore animal characteristics by participating in an animal anatomy activity. For this animal tracks lesson, students identify the differences between specific animals and the shape of their footprints. Students utilize a...
Curated OER
Animal Tracks Program
Entice your learners with this lesson on animal footprints. After reading the story Footprints in the Snow by Cynthia Benjamin, they use photos to identify animals and their footprints. Then they participate in an activity to classify...
Curated OER
Identifying Animal Tracks
In this identifying animal track worksheet, students look at the pictures of the animals and connect the animals with its tracks.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Animals: Who Walked Here?
Try to guess which animal left tracks on the ground. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish and Turkish, with text in English.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Geostories: Tracking Animal Migrations
This interactive Geostory illustrates how animal tracking data helps us understand how individuals and populations move within local areas and migrate across oceans and continents.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Trackers
In this video segment from WILD TV, meet a group of trackers and learn how they track animals.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Jason: Tracking the Path of Animals
Rainforest at the Crossroads: Simulate the motion of an animal using a rectangular object placed at different positions on the floor. Then measure and graph the animal's coordinates, and examine its path.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Follow That Footprint
Have you ever investigated all of those foot prints in the snow? Learn how to track the various creatures in your back yard with this guide.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Signs and Tracks of Animals
A detailed lesson plan outlining how students are introduced to the topic of animal tracking, and how their knowledge and vocabulary are carefully expanded. Students are shown 'evidence' of an animal having been present, and must...
PBS
Nova: Track the Fossa
This short simulation shows you how to track a Fossa. Activities include tuning the radio (receiver) and positioning the antenna to get the strongest signal.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Save Animal Tracks as Plaster Casts
Engage students in the outdoors by searching for fresh animal tracks and making molds of them. Then investigate which animal might have been there.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Fossa (Cryptoprocta Ferox)
This entry identifies the defining characteristics of the Cryptoprocta ferox, otherwise known as the fossa.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Map a Buddy
This activity serves to introduce the concept of tracking and spatial movements of animals in relation to the environment in which they live. The following activity will aid student understanding of animal tracking and how technology...
PBS
Nh Pbs: Wildlife Journal Jr: Tracking Winter Wildlife
Venture through the winter woods with ecologist Sue Morris and learn how to find clues to identify signs of wildlife. See tracks and markings from moose, bear, and coyote.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Wildlife Journal Jr: Tracking Blanding's Turtle
Tour the wetlands of New Hampshire as biologists try to find the elusive, yellow-necked Blanding's turtle, one of the state's rarest, oldest and best-traveled reptiles. Learn how the turtles survive in a changing valuable wetland habitat.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Nature Cat: Track That Animal!: Grade 3
Nature Cat, Daisy, Squeeks, and Hal had to track Sir Gallahad in Heartthrob Hamster. Animals leave clues behind that allow people to find out about where they've been. Learn about these clues tell you what kind of creatures have come by...
PBS
Nh Pbs: Wildlife Journal Jr: Moose Roundup
Learn how helicopters and net-guns are used by moose wranglers to capture and radio-collar moose in an effort to collect data for a study. Discuss why scientists are using these methods and the importance of tracking wildlife.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Making Tracks
This lesson will allow students to explain or interpret possible scenarios from a single set of observations. Emphasis should be on supporting interpretations with concrete observations.
Other
Old Farmer's Almanac: Pictures of Common Animal Footprints
Use this website to learn how to identify animal tracks and view pictures of the tracks left by sixteen different animals.
PBS
Peep and the Big Wide World: Animals and Plants
This learning game has students follow different animal tracks and collect berries along the way.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Teacher Resources: Tracks!
This is an outdoor activity where students look for animal tracks and try to identify the animal. They can also make plaster casts of tracks and collect other evidence of an animal's presence.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: The New Zoos: Tuna in the Tank
Investigate how scientists track the world's most valuable and endangered fish. Define the range of an individual based on observations made over the course of a day.