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ProjectWILD Aquatic: Migration Headache

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Students explore the important factors that affect habitat quality and the associated survival of migratory water bird populations. They discuss an organisms dependency upon a variety of habitats and habitat quality. Students play a game...
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Keep It Complex!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers describe the significance of complexity in benthic habitats to organisms that live in these habitats.Students describe at least three attributes of benthic habitats that can increase the physical complexity of thes
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Habitat Movies

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars create movies of various habitats and animals using their knowledge of the subject and the computer program iMovie. Emphasis is placed on cooperative learning and research.
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Paper Sculpture Habitats

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students develop skills in sculpture. They acknowledge that sculpture can be made in a variety of ways. Students encounter different ways paper can be manipulated. They gain experience in collaboration.
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Teeter Totter

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students explore the two types of spotted sandpipers. They create a puppet show using the spotted sandpiper from Puerto Rico and the spotted sandpiper from Alaska. Students research the habitats of the two sandpipers.
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DID YOU HELP CREATE THIS

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine whether their actions are positively or negatively affecting organisms and their habitats. They choose an animal to study then create a multimedia presentation including charts and graphs of data logger information and...
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Animal Book

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore habitats and the needs of living things. They research a selected animal. Students use KidPix and create a variety of animal riddles. They combine their riddles with those of classmates to create their animal books.
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Habitat Unit - Day 2

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Young scholars explore abiotic factors that affect habitats. After a class lecture, students work in groups to answer questions about plant tissue, production and growth. They share answers, complete a crossword puzzle, and create a...
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Habitat Breakdown

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine how insects and organisms are impacted by factors that are essential to an organism's survival in particular habitats. They participate in a habitat game in which they imagine themselves as insects.
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Habitat Habits

For Teachers K - 4th
Students define and describe their habitats.
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Deep Blue Sea

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore animals, plants, and their habitats.
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Habitat Lap Sit

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders physically form a circle that shows the interconnectedness of the components of a habitat. They form circles and role play the parts of habitats.
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The Elephant Ate a Banana in the Tundra

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students perform a scene with their small group. They identify an animal, act out what the animal does, where the animal would be found, and what the animal eats. They locate the animal habitats on a map.
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Preparing for the New Haven Public School Science Fair Through Environmental Science

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover what type of effect that pesticides have on earthworms. They use three different types of pesticide and examine the external and internal effects that each have on earthworms. They maintain earthworms in habitats...
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Endangered Spaces = Endangered Species!

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders discuss the crowding, loss of personal space, loss of home, loss of food, etc. that might occur at a developmental site. They witness, through an in-class demonstration, what happens when land is taken for development. They...
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What Lives in Oceans and Wetlands?

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this habitats worksheet, students compare and contrast what lives in an ocean habitat and a wetland habitat. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
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Who Lives Here?

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this animal habitat worksheet, students look at 6 pictures of different animal habitats and write the animal that belongs to each one. Pictures include a nest, a fish tank, a crate, and more.
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Who Lives with Mallard?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students color a picture of the habitat featuring mallard and other creatures, some of whom might be camouflaged or half-hidden. They discuss other forms of animal adaptation.
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Here Today. . .Gone Tomorrow

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students observe that there are threatened and endangered bird species in Illinois, why they have been given this status and how it relates to endangered species on a worldwide basis. they participate in the Project WILD "Oh, Deer" or...
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The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
With The Great Kapok Tree, by Lynne Cherry as the hook learners discuss the rainforest, the animals that live there, and conservation efforts. Then, students write a letter to the man in the story asking him not to cut down the Kapok...
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Animal Habitat Dioramas

For Teachers K - 5th
What a better way to have learners show what they know than with a diorama? Kids research an animal, its habitat, ecosystem, and environment in order to create a three-dimensional diorama. Have older children write a short paper on their...
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What's the Difference?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students analyze the similarities in different species. This instructional activity is part of a multi-segmented unit on the diversity of life. In this segment, students classify shoes to mimic the scientific categories of the...
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Internet Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students use a computer and the internet to click on highlighted words to find certain answers. They then write the answer to the questions on paper. Finally, students choose one animal to write about. They research the animal on the...
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To Dam or Not to Dam

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young ecologists explore the Aswan Dam in Egypt via the internet. Each collaborative group is assigned a specific article about the ecological impact of the dam. Then they prepare a presentation to share with the rest of the class. Some...

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