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Where is Shirley the Elephant?
Young animal lovers engage in a lesson that's all about elephants. They access an elephant sanctuary website and read a story about Shirley the elephant. They perform a series of activities based upon that story, and also study about the...
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Elephant Ears-African Or Asian
Students investigate the concept of African and Asian elephants. They conduct research while comparing and contrasting the two different types of elephants. The lesson plan has some background information for the teacher to use. Students...
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Elephants
Students explore elephants. In this elephant art lesson plan, students compare Asian and African elephants, and draw an elephant by following step by step instructions from the teacher.
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Endangered Mammals: African and Asian Elephants
Young scholars explore the concept of endangered mammals. In this elephants lesson, students research Internet resources regarding African and Asian elephants.
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Elephants
In this elephants interactive worksheet, students read short passages of information about elephants before answering 10 multiple choice questions. They check their answers and start again if needed.
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George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma: "Shooting an Elephant"
Students read George Orwell's essay "Shooting an Elephant" as an analysis for the historical context. In this historical analysis lesson plan, students analyze the main points in the essay to identify its cultural and historical context....
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Elephant Quiz
Students test what they know about elephants. This learning exercise contains 9 multiple choice general knowledge questions about elephants. Answers are provided.
Virginia Department of Education
Researching Information on the Internet
Practice Internet research skills. Each class member will need Internet access in order to follow along as you model how to search using key words and to do their own research on African and Asian elephants. Their notes will go into a...
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The Asian And African Elephants
In this science worksheet, pupils use Internet research to compare the Asian and the African elephants. Students fill out a chart with 13 facts comparing and contrasting the two elephant species.
News Literacy Project
News Goggles: Tracking Developing Stories
A 28-slide presentation introduces viewers to the process reports go through to track and verify developing news stories. Using the reports of the attacks at Atlanta, Georgia, massage parlors as an example, viewers are taught what to...
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Asian Art
Second graders investigate the art of a number of Asian countries. They look at slides and sculptures, and make a Chinese hand scrolls.
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Taronga Zoo
In this online Taronga Zoo worksheet, learners click on the underlined blue word or words to find the answers to twelve questions associated with the Taronga Zoo in Asia.
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Column Addition
Third and fourth graders read the addition word problems and use the sets of numbers within the problem along with column addition to solve the problems.
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Reading: Birds and Animals in the Mirror
In this pronouns practice reading comprehension worksheet, students read a 6-paragraph passage and then respond to 10 true or false questions.
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How Size Shapes Animals
Students investigate how size affects large and small animals differently. In this animal lesson plan, students determine how size affects different animals by constructing their own animal out of marshmallows. Once students create...
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Tell Me All About It!!
Students discuss the importance of comprehension and the use of summarization. Through guided practice, they follow five steps in finding and highlighting important information, while deleting information that is not needed. Using the...
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"Home Sweet Home?"
Students research an endangered animal's habitat, investigate the survival problems. They research the animal's zoo life. They research some programs of reintroduction and chart the pros and cons of each.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Asian Elephants
Read about the endangered Asian Elephant. Find out what it likes to eat, where it lives, and its behaviors. Click on the links to the left for more information.
Other
International Elephant Foundation: Asian Elephant
Basic facts about the Asian elephant. Includes physical description, range and habitat, diet, behavior, reproduction, lifespan, enemies, and conservation.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Asian Elephant (Elephas Maximus)
Explore images and facts about the Asian Elephant, including details on their appearance, habitat, diet, breeding, and status as an endangered species.
Woodland Park Zoo
Woodland Park Zoo: Asian Elephant
Resource feature the Asian Elephant. Provides key facts about its classification and range, life cycle, reproduction and more.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Elephant
This resource provides detailed information about the elephant, as well as several pictures and audio clips. [1:00]
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Saving Animals From Extinction: A Home for Elephants
Learn some facts about the Asian elephant in this book. Includes audio narration in English and Spanish with text in English.
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The Elephant Sanctuary
Learn about the facility, view live and archived videos of the resident elephants and learn their histories and that of elephants in general. Visit the photo gallery and read the newsletter and other news from "around the globe". In...