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Timber Rattlesnake
A wonderful way for student to learn about snakes common to Florida. Pictures, diagrams and definitions accompany scientific details and comparisons to other snakes
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Torn Paper Portraits: A Value Study
High schoolers "paint" with torn paper!. They focus on the placement of features, facial planes, shadows and highlights using a black and white image. The results from this lesson are visually stunning, and the materials you need to get...
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Go Fish For Blends and Digraphs
Youngsters practice using blends and digraphs. In this early reading lesson, students play a game of "Go Fish" using words that contain a blend or digraph. This allows them to practice recognizing the word and using it in a sentence.
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Is It Slimy? Does It Have Fur? Is It Really a Bird?
Sixth graders identify the different types of vertebrate animals based upon their major characteristics, as they create collages in groups. Collages show pictures of vertebrate animals labeled with the appropriate structural...
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Symbols of North Carolina
In this interactive North Carolina worksheet, 4th graders explore symbols of North Carolina. Students complete sixteen multiple choice questions about North Carolina.
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Coil-Built Pueblo Bowls
Use Native American tradition to create the context for making different cultural representations of pottery. Practice using geometrical shapes painted on the pottery, research different patterns found on Native American pottery, and...
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Animal Colors and Shapes
Learners investigate the natural characteristics of animals by completing a coloring activity. In this animal properties lesson, students investigate the reasons different animals have specific colors, and how it is essential for their...
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The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
For this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions based on The Secret Sharer. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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A Day at the Pet Store: Solving Word Problems
In this word problem learning exercise, students solve a set of 4 problems, crossing out extra information and writing what they need to know if necessary. Answers on page 2.
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Food Web
Students are able to define food web, and identify the interdependence of organisms within a system. They are able to describe how natural events and human activities can impact a food web.
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A Model of a Strato Volcano
Students build a volcano model on tag board. They add lava and ash layers simulating the process that builds a real strato volcano cone.
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Phonics Long Vowel 1
In this vowel sound worksheet, students review the words in the word bank and circle the words that have the long a sound. Students then draw a picture to show words that have the long a sound.
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Study Of Birds
Young scholars investigate the Spanish language looking for words related to birds and their habitat. They write phrases and sentences using the words. Gradually they attempt to use the correct sentence structure in conjunction with...
Oakland Zoo
Oakland Zoo: Grey Banded King Snake
This resource offers information about the Grey Banded King Snake, including scientific information, physical characteristics, habitat, diet, behavior, breeding habits, conservation, and more.
Nature Canada
Nature Canada: Species Spotlight: Gray Ratsnake
A fact sheet giving information about the endangered gray ratsnake, which is also called the eastern or black ratsnake. This snake is the largest one found in Canada, growing up to 190 cm long.
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Gray Ratsnake
Previously known as black ratsnakes, the gray ratsnake is one of the largest snakes found in Canada. Described are its characteristics, young and food.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Species With Status: Special Concern
Species of special concern are species for whom some issue is suspected, either in abundance or distribution, but not yet proven. Its main purpose is to bring attention to species of concern before they become threatened or endangered....
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Townsend's Vole
Townsend's Vole is one of the largest voles in North America, and it is also very abundant where it occurs, making the species highly significant to a multitude of predators, including herons, owls, and other birds of prey; and raccoons,...