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Animals

For Teachers 1st
First graders study the basic needs of animals and compare them to human needs. They make bird feeders using milk carton and pine cones. They review the basic needs of food, water, air, and shelter and discuss what happens when animals...
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Eastern Woodland Indians

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research the Eastern Woodland Indians in this lesson. They list the tribes and write a description of the physical environment. They list examples of the types of food, clothing, transportation, home/shelter,...
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Valley Forge

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners describe how location, weather, and physical environment affect the way people live, including the effects on their food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and recreation. They also describe the lives of American heroes who...
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Rag Coat Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 6th
Students discover ways to help those in need within their community. In this early childhood lesson plan, students gather clothing donations for use in a fundraiser for their community shelter. Students also create posters to advertise...
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Singing as a Way of Giving

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students perform songs from previous philanthropy lessons. In this music lesson, students create a video of songs and give it to a local shelter. Students are encouraged to be creative and sing songs such as "What Can I Do for You" and...
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Canine Companions

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify the responsibilities of being a dog owner. In this animal welfare lesson plan, students list ten important items that a dog needs to live and visit a pet store to calculate the total cost of the items. Students visit a...
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Save the Earth: It's Everyone's Home!

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Young scholars organize a donation drive based on the concept of reusing items for an animal shelter. In this reusing items lesson plan, students distinguish between reusable and non reusable items, have a donation drive, and use the...
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Photograph and Pamphlet About Nuclear Fallout

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the term, 'nuclear fallout.' They analyze the "Facts about Fallout" pamphlet and list any questions that either were not answered by the pamphlet or arose as a result of materials provided.
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Designing a Shade Structure

For Teachers K
Bring the learning outdoors with an enjoyable activity about Earth's heating, sunlight, and shade. Scholars use problem-solving skills as they design, build, and test a sunshade structure. Participants view a video summarizing the...
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What Should a House Do?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students describe two different houses in use at the time the first European settlements were founded. Students list ways in which our lives differ from the lives of the Native Americans and Europeans during that period of history.
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Habitat

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are able to define habitat. They are able to identify the four things that living things need to survive. Students are able to describe how living things are adapted to their habitats.
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Where in the Book?

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language arts worksheet, students identify which page to locate various chapter of a book for specific things about caring for a pet turtle. Then they determine how many chapters there are in the book and give it a title.
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Help! There Are Too Many Dogs and Cats and Not Enough Homes!

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students discuss the importance of spaying and neutering pets. In this animal care lesson plan, students create a make believe animal shelter. They discuss what happens to animals in the shelter and if no one wants to take them home. 
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Ecosystems, Habitats and Survival

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students analyze the habitats of animals and people, how they are developed and maintained, and what factors affect shelter selection. They create a classified ad that describes a specific animal's habitat.
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Climate

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars explore climate and weather conditions. Using the Internet, and other activities, students examine climate maps and the factors that affect climate. They examine how climate affects clothes, shelter, food,...
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Who Has Hair?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars explore similarities and differences. In this Teaching Tolerance lesson, students read literature and participate in activities that features mammals and their hair. Young scholars learn that they share things in common...
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Fabulous Felines: How to Choose the Purrfect Cat

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Pupils investigate the concept of pet care and cats. In this cat lesson, students discuss responsibilities for pet care and take a cat quiz. Pupils discuss where to get their cats and how to care for them. Students may visit an animal...
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A Read-In

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore philosophy by participating in a philanthropic activity. In this book read-in instructional activity, students collect a group of used books and illustrate an image to go along with the story. Students donate these books...
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What Are Some Roles of Living Things?

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this living things worksheet, students will write in 1 main role living things play in their habitat and then write in 4 supporting details in this graphic organizer.
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Stormy Weather

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders demonstrate their knowledge for how animals survive in natural environments when a storm occurs. In this science/writing instructional activity, 5th graders engage in a listening activity with the teacher. Additionally,...
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Wolf Habitat

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars identify their own basic needs for food, water, shelter and space in a suitable arrangement. They generalize that wolves and people have similar basic needs.
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Heart to Heart Interviews

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students interview veterans at a local homeless shelter. They publish their interviews in a class newspaper. They also present their information in different forums.
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Helping the Homeless

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers survey their peers on the issue of homelessness. They visit a shelter and research it on the internet. They identify myths and discover the importance of job skills and education.
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Cumulative Game on Native Americans

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete a written activity as well as play a review game about the Eastern Woodland Indian tribe and the Plains Indian tribe - natural resources, food, shelter, clothing, transportation, etc.

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