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Mission: Project Rescue

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore animals and their habitats. Using the Internet, they gather information and determine which animal goes into which habitat. Students design travel containers to provide proper food, water and comforts for the animal.
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Prairie Project

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students complete a long-term research project on prairie grasses and forbs. They develop research questions, collect and analyze data from reconstructed prairie plots, and publish their research data on a Prairie website.
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Ecosystems, Habitats and Survival

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students analyze the habitats of animals and people, how they are developed and maintained, and what factors affect shelter selection. They create a classified ad that describes a specific animal's habitat.
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Smallville Prairie Development Project

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students, through group activities, explain the important scientific, social/historical and aesthetic values of a prairie habitat. They analyze the impact of humans on prairieland and solve a problem regarding potential development of a...
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Fields, Meadows, and Fencerows Habitat

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this fields, meadows, and fencerows learning exercise, students click on the links to explore the investigative question "How is a field, a meadow, and a fencecrow habitat an essential part of a community?". Students look at 5...
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Using Comics to teach Habitat and the Balance of Nature

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students visit a specific online comics website to view a comic. They discuss the elements of the food chain that were seen in the story. They choose an inhabitant of the pond habitat that they have been reading about and do a research...
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Bluebirds Project

For Students 4th - 8th
In this bluebirds project worksheet, students are given directions on completing a project about bluebirds including measurements, scientific method questions, data entry, and more. Students complete 15 exercises.
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Tree Inventory and Map Project

For Students 5th - 8th
In this tree inventory and map project worksheet, students follow the directions on how to take inventories of trees and create a map from it. Students follow 4 sets of directions.
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Habitat Is Home

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Young scholars are introduced to the concept and components of a habitat. They discuss the key components of a habitat and describe how certain factors can cause disturbances in a habitat and change its population. Activities are leveled...
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Habitat Unit - Day 2

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Learners explore abiotic factors that affect habitats. After a class lecture, students work in groups to answer questions about plant tissue, production and growth. They share answers, complete a crossword puzzle, and create a habitat...
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Native Plant Restoration Project

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students distinguish between exotic and native plant species. They work in groups in the field to restore a natural habitat. A class map is created to reflect their work in the field.
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Local Habitats

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students create dioramas that depict a habitat. In this habitat lesson, students use a variety of art items to develop either a marine, freshwater/pond, or forest habitat in a box. They write an expository essay about their habitat, and...
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Backyard Habitats

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify habitat elements. They create a habitat in a backyard, on a balcony, at a workplace, or in a schoolyard and provide the four basic requirements of wildlife survival (food, water, cover, and places to raise young). They...
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Seaworthy Presentations

For Teachers 1st
First graders research ocean animals and plants on the web.  For this ocean habitat lesson, 1st graders prepare a multimedia presentation.  Students will work on their presentations in pairs and every group should have its own animals or...
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Deserts: How Do You Define One?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify what constitutes as a desert by reading a habitat checklist.  In this environment lesson plan, 2nd graders read a nature website to discover facts about the desert and where they are located.  Students utilize art...
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Building a Butterfly Garden

For Teachers K
Students examine the habitat and life cycle of a butterfly. For this early childhood lesson plan, students identify the parts of a butterfly, as well as the stages of the butterfly life cycle. Students also plant a garden in which they...
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Toad Adobe

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore the importance of toads and the need for toad habitats in the environment. In this animal habitats lesson, students create an adobe habitat for toads by using a clay pot. Students paint their pots and place them in their...
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Polar Bear Needs a Home!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders are introduced to the topic of habitat . They create a zoo exhibit fo a polar bear that is being donated to the Albuquerque Zoo. The zoo is not big enough for a brand new cage, so the students choose which of three...
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Venus Flytrap

For Teachers K - 12th
Students study the Venus Flytrap including its habitat and how it eats.  In this ecology lesson students complete several experiments using a Venus Flytrap to see how it reacts to various conditions. 
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A Pressing Project

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students create a collection of pressed plants. In this plant lesson, students use newspaper, plywood, and a rubberband to press plants they previously collected.
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Prairie Mural Project

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders construct a large mural of a praire showing plants, and animals that would live there.
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WWW = World Wide Wildlife

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Through video, internet research, and hands-on activities, learners conduct a study of the interdependence between animals and the habitats they live in. They conduct Internet research independently in order to complete a report on a...
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Kids Can Make a Difference

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
What is a philanthropist? We can all be philanthropists! After assessing the needs of the school and listening to literature about how they can help others, primary learners develop a class project and maintain a journal of their...
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Something Fishy in Ontario

For Teachers 4th
Students create a diorama of the habitat of the fish of their choice, along with a research paper. They research habitats, the factors which affect specific habitats, and how fish adapt to different habitats in order to meet their unique...

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