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Worksheet
Curated OER

Exploring Adaptations: Magic Tree House Polar Bears and the Arctic

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this animal adaptations activity, students respond to the facts presented in the Magic Tree House book Polar Bears and the Arctic. Students cut out cards with animal adaptations. Students cut out Arctic animal picture cards and...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

I Will Survive

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Life in the Arctic

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a model of an arctic animal. In this animal adaptation lesson, students research an arctic animal, create a 3-D model of their animal, and explain the physical characteristics animals in the arctic need to survive.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Grzimek's Animal Life: Polar Bears

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the physical adaptations of polar bears. In this animal adaptations lesson plan, students access interactive resource pages on the Internet, discovering the habitats of polar bears and their physical attributes. Students...
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Organizer
Curated OER

How Do Animals Use Their Parts?

For Students K - 2nd
In this animal adaptations worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by filling in the body part that completes the animal adaptation statement. This worksheet has 6 examples to fill in.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Student Designed Investigations Part 3 – Collecting Data and Drawing Conclusions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore how living things adapt to their environment. In this science lesson, students conduct scientific investigations to examine animal adaptations.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Meet the Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
The class will examine a series of live or stuffed animals in order to learn how different animals survive in distinctive habitats. As they examine each animal, they will be asked a series of critical thinking questions geared at getting...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Week 7: Animal Adaptations - Bird Beaks

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students use tools to represent bird beaks and pick up different types of food with them in order to discover which beak would help the bird survive depending on their food type.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Animal Adaptations

For Students 2nd - 3rd
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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Organizer
Curated OER

Animal Adaptations

For Students 1st - 3rd
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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PPT
Curated OER

Interdependence and Adaptation

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Find out how camels and polar bears are each perfectly suited to their environments because of their physical adaptations. Several key features of each animal are discussed along with how those features work in their specific...
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PPT
Curated OER

Hibernation

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Explain the process behind animal hibernation. This text-rich presentation provides clear information related to weather, animal behaviors, and their coping mechanisms.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

All Ears for Adaptation

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Young scholars discuss different characteristics that enable animals to adapt to their environments. They work in pairs with one partner standing about one foot behind the other partner and cup their hands around their ears with palms...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Animals Are Different

For Students K - 1st
Each animal is different! Showcase animal characteristics through a series of questions based on simple images of well-known animals. This worksheet has learners examining 8 animals: rabbit, penguin, parrot, dolphin, bear, ostrich, duck,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Blubber Gloves

For Teachers 5th
The ways that animals adapt to their environments is quite remarkable. In this life science lesson plan, fifth graders take a look at some of the ways that aquatic animals that live in Arctic or Antarctic waters survive. They perform an...
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Lesson Plan
Pennsylvania Department of Education

Plant and Animal Adaptations

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify behavioral and structural adaptations to plant and animal life. In this unit overview, 4th graders discuss the importance of variation and adaptation in a species survival. This is a unit overview and does not...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animal Adaptations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students expand their knowledge of animal features and behaviors that can help or hinder their survival in a particular habitat. They participate in classroom discussions and visit a website to research animals
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Wildlife Federation

Adapt-A-Bird

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Not every animal has the best features for its environment. Learners study the characteristics of birds and the implications of these characteristics as related to their environments. They use what they learn to create their own new...
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

What's This? Life at the Limits

For Students 6th - 12th
There are some amazing ways species evolve to survive. From large ears to sneezing salt, learners read about these interesting adaptations in an interactive lesson. Great to supplement an in-class lesson, it also works well as a remote...
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Activity
Umaine Museum of Art

Bony Fish Anatomy Worksheet

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Take time to appreciate the beauty in the anatomy of animals with this cross-curricular art and science activity. After viewing examples of fish-themed artwork, children complete the included worksheet by labeling the different parts of...
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Lesson Plan
Consortium for Ocean Science Exploration and Engagement (COSEE)

Fish Morphology

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
Life comes in all different shapes and sizes, and fish are no exception. Here, young scientists create fish prints as they learn how specific characteristics allow different species to survive in their particular habitats.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Wildlife Federation

Fill the Bill

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A hummingbird isn't the only bird with a unique beak. After a discussion about the specific characteristics of bird beaks, pupils complete a station rotation and use different tools to simulate the function of different beaks. They...
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Interactive
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NOAA

Tides

For Students 6th - 12th
Sometimes low, sometimes high, but always in motion! Explore Earth's tidal system in the 10th interactive in a series of 13. Engaging life and earth science students alike, the versatile resource demonstrates cause and effect between...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animal Adaptation

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read in their textbooks about how water affects habitats and discuss vocabulary and pictures from the lesson. Then in groups of two, they observe the teacher's example of a headline. They are then assigned to their own...

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