Curated OER
Poetry Book-- Small Creatures
In this reading instructional activity, learners create a book of poems about small creatures of the garden by stapling 20 pages. Students read each short poem and color the pictures.
Curated OER
Habitat Preservation Project
High schoolers demonstrate what happens when nature takes back land after humans have managed it. They find an area in the schoolyard, and mark it off with a boundary. Students build a simple fence with string and stakes. They put up...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: A Mouse Like a House? A Pocket Elephant?
Teachers can download this teaching package that discusses the limits on animal size, both big and small, and what effect size has on animals. Young scholars will enjoy the hands-on activities described in the lessons. Teachers will...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Bird and Animal Series: Small Animals by Mc Loughlin Bros
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Bird and Animal Series: Small Animals by McLoughlin Bros. (1886), a nonfiction book of illustrated stories about small animals.