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Lesson Plan
Illinois Department of Natural Resources

Section Two: Why is Biodiversity Important?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Explore soil, genetic traits, natural resources, and pollution in a series of lessons that focus on biodiversity. Kids complete experiments to learn more about the importance of varied genes and organisms in an ecosystem.
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Curated OER

Classification and Adaptations- Streams, Rivers, and Lakes - Where the Land Meets the Sea And Caribbean Reef

For Teachers 5th - 7th
In this science worksheet set, students answer 14 short answer questions about the classification and adaptation of life in streams, rivers, and lakes. They also answer 15 questions about life "Where the Land Meets the Sea" and in a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Friends

For Teachers 1st
First graders use the software Inspiration to create a web describing characteristics of a good friend. With the use of a digital camera and PowerPoint, 1st graders create "Friends Found" posters after reading the book, "Don't Need...
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Curated OER

Mapping Where Animals Live

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
What type of reptiles live in New York State? This instructional activity gets the class thinking about what factors determine where particular animals live. They analyze the Hudson Valley environment, identify specific reptile and...
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Curated OER

Learning Activities: What Color Am I?

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students identify various species of anurans by their skin coloration. They describe how coloration contributes to survival.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read The Garden by Arnold Lobel, plant seeds to discover what makes them grow, and record their observations in their journals.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Story Elements: Henry and Mudge Story

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this story elements from a Henry and Mudge story worksheet, students read the story, cut out story elements, and glue them into the correct categories on the second worksheet. Students cut and paste seventeen story elements.
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Mixed Bags: Fiction and Nonfiction

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Using a bag with one fiction and non-fiction book of similar topics, partners work together to find the differences and similarities of each story. They record their obervances in a T-chart.
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Curated OER

Problem Solving

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice problem solving strategies. In this problem solving instructional activity, 2nd graders use strategies such as guess and check, acting out, drawing pictures and looking for patterns to solve problems. Students...
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Curated OER

Bodacious Buttons

For Teachers 1st
First graders participate in games, graphing, and probability exercises to sort and graph buttons. They sort buttons with Venn diagrams and Bull's Eye graphs.
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Curated OER

Simple Keys and Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify descriptive questions as a method for distinguishing objects and for identifying labels for objects and categorizing objects. They participate in a student grouping activity, then using pictures of different types...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Make Words

For Teachers 5th - 7th
In this making words worksheet, students make as many English words as they can from the letters found in the word salamander only.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Ellie's Diary 1 The Future Tense

For Students 4th - 6th
In this reading worksheet, students read a diary entry for information and answer comprehension questions. In this short answer worksheet, students answer eleven questions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Ladders

For Students 9th - 11th
In this algebra worksheet, students rewrite word problems using algebraic terminology. They complete word puzzles by creating different words where only one letter can be changed at a times to a new word. There is an answer key.
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Desert Discoveries

Nocturnal Navigators

For Teachers 3rd
Young biologists take a look at some of the unique ways that nocturnal animals survive in the dark. After reading a terrific student handout which is embedded in the plan, learners work together to answer questions about what they have...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Sentence Completion 5: High-intermediate Level

For Students 7th - 9th
How do you figure out what word best completes a sentence? The answers and explanations key that accompanies an eight sentence exercise outlines the strategies used to determine the correct response for assessments of this type....
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Workbook
Essential Skills Software

Worksheet Set: Super Phonics Level 2

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Supercharge beginning readers phonics skills with this extensive collection of worksheets. With exercises on long and short vowels, consonant blends, rhyming words, word endings, and much more, this resource is a primary grade teacher's...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mimicry: Other Insects That Resemble Bees

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students design a conceptual experiment to test whether mimics actually benefit from the fact they resemble other organisms or objects. They define the term mimicry. They focus on insects that resemble bees and wasps.
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Curated OER

A Moth Is Not a Butterfly!

For Teachers K - 5th
Students identify the differences and similarities between a butterfly and a moth. They complete a Venn diagram, participate in class discussion and conduct related Internet research on the topic.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Animal Myth Busters

For Students 3rd - 4th
In these reading comprehension worksheets, students read about animal myths and animal facts. Students answer 5 reading comprehension questions about the text.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Amphibians Crossword Puzzle

For Students 9th - 12th
In this biology learning exercise, high schoolers complete a crossword puzzle with 24 questions about different types of amphibians and functions of their body parts.
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Curated OER

The Attribute Train

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students participate in a hands-on activity working with attribute blocks. After reading a story about attributes as a class, they each are given two attribute blocks. The first student lays one attribute block on the floor with the next...
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Curated OER

Metamorphosis Matching

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students view pictures of animals as they complete the metamorphosis from a larva to an adult. In this metamorphosis lesson plan, students view pictures and in the end are able to match pictures of a larva stage to an adult stage in...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Mapping Where Animals Live

For Students 5th - 7th
In this animal mapping worksheet, students read a short passage about amphibians and reptiles in New York State, then use a set of maps to answer related questions.