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Bat Ecology
Young scholars, through hands on games and activities, discover how bats live and how bats benefit ecosystems. They play a game designed to show them how echolocation works and another to show how mother bats locate their young through...
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Pets: Oh Behave
Students develop an understanding of how innate and learned behaviors and the environment determine behavior. They see how a variety of factors affects our pet's behavior-including species-specific traits, the environment, training, and...
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Butterfly Lifecycles
What a great way to present this topic! While a little difficult to follow, this lesson plan provides great ideas for a second grade lesson plan involving butterfly lifecycles. Learners make drawings of butterflies, discuss life cycles,...
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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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Weatherman Phil
Third graders examine the life of a groundhog and their role in predicting weather. They write a postcard or a letter to Punxsutawney Phil on the Internet.
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Brown Bears
Students read books and facts to learn about the brown bear. In this brown bear lesson plan, students also color coloring pages, and make a paper bag craft.
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Pets: Oh Behave
Students develop an understanding of how innate and learned behaviors and the environment determine behavior.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Breaking News English: Londoners Offered BLT for SAD
In this English worksheet, students read "Londoners Offered BLT for SAD," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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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.
Read Works
Read Works: Classify and Categorize 4th Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson plan unit on classifying and categorizing through which students learn how to organize research into an outline, use text features to locate information, and write a research report....
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Read Works: Get Ready for Winter
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about animals that hibernate throughout the winter. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
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Read Works: Good Night
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about animals that hibernate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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.