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Camouflage
Here is a lesson which incorporates ingenious hands-on activities that simulate how many animals use camouflage as a survival technique. This lesson clearly outlines how to implement the activities and discussion sessions found in it....
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Feeding Frenzy
Young biologists take a look at the myriad of ways that animals increase their chances of surviving in the wild. The adaptations help animals hide, hunt, and attract a mate. This lesson specifically explores how insect mouth parts are...
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Disguise for the Eyes
Young scientists discover how many, many animals use color as a way of helping them to survive in the wild. They understand how animals use color in their everyday lives. Pupils engage in hands-on activities, watch videos, access...
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Happy Habitats
Students explore different habitats. In this habitat lesson, students investigate four different habitats through participating in a WebQuest. Students create an animal web using Kidspiration or a video documentary upon completing the...
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How do animals survive winter?
Students make a chart about hibernation. In this hibernation lesson plan, students discuss hibernation and read about it. Then they fill in a chart about how different animals know when and how to hibernate.
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Academic Raceway 500
This PowerPoint provides a raceway game in which students compete by answering animal questions correctly to advance their racecar. The main animal themes covered are adaptation, survival, endangered and extinct animals, and ways to...
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Dull Duck, Dashing Duck
Students learn about animal camouflage. In this animal adaptations activity, students discuss the patterns and adaptations animals use to help them survive, discuss the uses of camouflage, visit a local wetland if possible, and...
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Saving Big Cats from Extinction
Students explore extinction. In this biology and environmental science lesson, students define extinction, identify what living things need to survive, and create a persuasive poster about "saving the big cats" using a desktop...
Alabama Learning Exchange
I Will Survive
Young scholars explore animal adaptations. In this animal science lesson, students watch the video "Kratt's Kreatures" and work in groups to complete a worksheet about animal adaptations.
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Animal Adaptations
In this animal adaptations worksheet, students will write down three different parts of an animal that help that animal to live. This worksheet is a graphic organizer with 3 short answer questions.
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Animal Adaptations
In this animal adaptations worksheet, students will complete a graphic organizer by brainstorming 3 animals and an adaptation that animal has that helps it to survive.
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Shelter
Students study shelter and how plants, animals, and people must have shelter to survive. In this shelter lesson, students read paragraphs about various shelters and their necessity with plants, animals, and people.
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How Do Adaptations Help Living Things?
In this adaptations worksheet, students will brainstorm a problem that a living thing might face in its environment. Then students will write down what solution or adaptation that living thing has that allows it to survive that...
McGraw Hill
The Mc Graw Hill Companies, Inc.: Adaptation
Evolution, natural selection, sexual selection, coevolution, convergent evolution, mimicry, and coloration, are the topics examined in this thorough site. Assess your comprehension of the material presented by delving into the learning...
Other
North Carolina Zoological Society: Field Trip Earth
Resources for students and teachers about animal conservation research programs around the world. Articles, interviews, and field reports are available.
Nick Sippl-Swezey
The Salmon Game
The Salmon Game has students explore different scenarios of salmon spawning and survival using beans. All materials are provided. These include a lesson plan, background information on salmon, a slideshow, student handouts, etc., as well...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Animal Game Impact of Human Activity or Natural Disasters
A description of a lesson where students first listen to a story where they begin to think about and discuss the impact humans and natural disasters have on the environment. They then play a board game. This requires preparation...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Let's Build a Snowman
These two lessons that teach learners about how animals survive in the winter by reading fiction and nonfiction. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
PBS
Nova: Dogs Around the World
Play an interactive game where you can match modern dog breeds with the country in which they originated.
BioMan Biology
Bio Man Biology: Snurfle Islands
Create a Snurfle and see whether it can survive in different environments. As you play the game, you will learn about natural selection and animal adaptations. At the end of the game, try the multiple-choice quiz to check your...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Plum's Creature Connector
This PBS Kids activity is an extension of a Plum Landing episode featuring food webs. Students will learn basic information about how animals are interdependent. Students will help different animals survive in their different habitats
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Now You See Me, Now You Don't!
An animal's physical characteristics, such as its body color, may give it a better chance of survival. For example, the body colors of many animals blend with their background. In this investigation, students will see that body color may...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Importance of Fur for Animals
This is a lesson to teach students how to read a thermometer and gain an understanding of why fur is important for some animals' survival.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Have You Seen My Mother?
This lesson will introduce the sense of smell. It will show how an animal, such as a bat, finds its baby by using the sense of smell. Students will have the opportunity to view information on the Internet to learn more about bats. They...