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Animal Behavior
In this animal behavior worksheet, students will review various types of animal behavior including those that are instinctual and those that are learned. This worksheet has 10 true or false and 8 matching questions.
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guided reading lesson using BATS
Students answer questions, then after reading several bat books, students revisit the questions.
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WHERE DO BEARS LIVE?
Students practice making predictions about what happen in the story by looking at the pictures and answering questions aloud. Given a blank sheet of paper and writing utensils, students draw a picture of a bear in a den and describe that...
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Holy Habitats or Meet Metamorphosis
Students examine the metamorphosis of frogs and how it adapts to its environment. They research how world pollutants are effecting the amphibian population.
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Meadow Mammals Crossword Puzzle
In this meadow mammals activity, students complete a crossword puzzle about meadow mammals. Students complete 25 blanks in the crossword puzzle.
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Total English Advanced: Getting the Right Quantity and a Good Ad!
In this writing advertisements activity, students examine 8 sentences and fill in the blanks with the appropriate words from the word bank. Students also write a short advertisement.
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Water 1: Water and Ice
Students investigate water in its solid and liquid form. In this states of matter lesson, students experiment to see what happens as water goes from a solid, ice, to a liquid, water, and back again. They write about and illustrate the...
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The Sharp Adaptations of Porcupines
In this porcupine worksheet, students learn about how porcupines adapt to their lives in the woods and how they use their quills. After reading a short text and analyzing the labeled pictures, students answer 3 short answer questions.
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"Esio Trot" by Roald Dahl
Students read Roald Dahl's Esio Trot and complete vocabulary and reading activities. In this reading and vocabulary lesson plan, students review vocabulary for the activity and listen to the story. Students discuss the story elements and...
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Evaluative Reading Comprehension
For this reading worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions about reading lists, classifying, grouping sentences, and more. Students complete 20 problems.
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Jane Goodall
Students identify Jane Goodall as a scientist who studies the behavior of chimpanzees. They listen to a biography of Jane Goodall and review the location of Africa. Then students participate in an animal observation activity.
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Snow Lovers or Haters
Students explain the three classifications that define how wildlife species react to winter; and name at least four examples each of chionophobes, chioneuphores, and chionophiles.
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Animal Instincts
Students compare animal adaptations to human behavior. In this science lesson, students discuss animal instincts vs. learned behavior. Options for student writing, drawing and research are incorporated into this lesson plan
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Ribbit! Ribbit!
Learners research a frog's life cycle and habitat using books, the Internet and lecture. Students make origami frogs, write letters to Toad from Arnold Lobel's "Frog and Toad" and participate in a simulated camouflage activity.
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Make a Cast of a Tyrannosaurus rex Fossil
Second graders examine the formation of fossils and list the different types. They make cast model of a dinosaur fossil. They write about conditions that are necessary for fossils to form and create a model of a buried fossil.
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Spy on a Spider
Students view slides or live specimens to name and describe the distinguishing features of groups of arthropods, especially spiders and insects. They complete worksheets, observe webs and then search for and record where spiders can be...
Utah Education Network
Uen: How Animals Prepare for Winter
Learn about animals that migrate or hibernate.
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Hibernation "A Time to Sleep"
This site is filled with creative and educational activities for your unit on hibernation. These activities include hibernation clocks, KWL chart, hibernation mural and more.
Read Works
Read Works: Animals Get Ready
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how different types of animals prepare for winter. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
Read Works
Read Works: Animals Get Ready
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text exploring different ways animals prepare for winter. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Under in the Mud Read Aloud | Story Edventures
Under in the Mud by Laureanna Raymond-Duvernell takes you into the wintering world of ten Wisconsin animals as you listen to her read the book and talk about the animals in it. Learn about how animals hibernate, migrate, and adapt to...
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Raccoon Dog (Nyctereutes Procyonoides)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the raccoon dog. Discusses how they are similar to raccoons, where they are found, the unusual fact that they hibernate, the threat they face from deforestation, diet, predators, and lifespan.
Science Made Simple
Science Made Simple: How Do Animals Spend the Winter?
Use this site to learn how animals use hibernation, adaptation, and migration to overcome the difficulties of winter.