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Alabama Wildlife Federation

Bloomin' Butterflies

For Teachers K - 12th
Get an up close and personal look at the metamorphosis of the butterfly. Pupils take ownership of their learning by collecting butterfly eggs, building a cage, and raising them to adulthood. The lesson resource provides instructions for...
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Interactive
Mr. Nussbaum

Butterfly

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
An interactive challenges scholars to read a short informational text about butterflies then answer eight questions. A progress report appears after the last question.
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Curated OER

Intermediate Activity: Energy Guide Labels

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore energy efficient appliances.  In this economics and ecology lesson, students compare and analyze EnergyGuide labels of various appliances.  High schoolers discuss federal government involvement with consumer...
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Seasonal Science: Spring Life Science Activities

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Spring into science with these great lesson ideas involving butterflies.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Birth and Early Childhood

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders read and compare creation stories of different cultures around the world. They identify and define the concept of the cycle of life and collect and analyze birth and childhood folk beliefs and stories in their families...
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Curated OER

What Goes Around Comes Around!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students create an ecosystem in a jar to show a model of the water, carbon, and nitrogen cycle. Working in small groups, they research and present orally the information they find on this cycle.
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Curated OER

The Froggy Page

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students investigate the cycle of life by observing tadpoles.  In this biology lesson, students utilize the Internet to read stories, observe pictures, and listen to sounds of frogs.  Students create a poster board collage using frog...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Energy Generating a Culture: Early American Coal Miners and Coal Mining Culture

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students calculate how much coal they use based on their electric power usage. In this environmental science lesson plan, students trace the history of coal mining in US. They write a letter to USPS to encourage them to create coal...
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Curated OER

Life in a Forest Stream

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students assess macro-invertebrates from a stream. In this science lesson plan, students observe, classify and identify organisms found in a stream. A lab station is constructed at the stream sight and students study the different...
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Curated OER

Global Greenup

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students utilize satellite images to track the life cycle of vegetational growth over a large area. Animal migratory patterns are compared to this cycle.
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Curated OER

Where are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners construct their own diorama based on the life of a dinosaur. In this dinosaur lesson, students create models of dinosaurs and dinosaurs' eggs to explore the life cycle of this extinct species.
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Curated OER

The Sky is Falling!!

For Teachers 1st
First graders complete a variety of activities about fall. They study a plant's life cycle and what happens to plants in the fall. They make leaf rubbings and discuss seed dispersal. They write a creative story about a seed and visit a...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Bellwork Week 20-Space Science

For Students 7th - 9th
In this space worksheet, students answer questions about the size comparison of the moon, Earth, Solar System, Virgo Cluster, Milky Way Galaxy, and Universe, they answer questions about the Milky Way Galaxy and they sketch the life cycle...
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Organizer
Curated OER

Writing a Fly Report

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this science research worksheet set, students complete scaffolded worksheets as they prepare to write a report about flies. They research information about the habitat, life cycle, interesting facts, diets, and predators of flies,...
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Organizer
Curated OER

Do You Know How an Amphibian Grows?

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this amphibian growth worksheet, students fill 5 blanks with the correct cut-and-paste image of the stages of growth from tadpole to adult frog. Students cut out each stage of growth and order them in the life cycle of a frog. 
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How Are Open Ocean Organisms Structured for Their Environment?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars explore biology by conducting an animal dissection. In this oceanography lesson, students identify the life cycle of a squid and other animals that are involved with commercial fishing. Young scholars dissect a squid in...
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Curated OER

Inside the Egg, Hatching Chickens

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Students explore how an egg becomes fertilized. In this biology instructional activity, students "candle" a variety of eggs in order to determine which ones have been fertilized and which ones haven't. Student use paper plates to create...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mr. Potato

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners identify the nutrients found in potatoes and the process of growing a potato plant. They role-play the potato life cycle, view a flannel board story, plant grass seeds in potatoes, and play hot potato.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Which Baby Animals Looks Unlike Their Parents?

For Students K - 2nd
Learners review the steps of the butterfly life cycle to show how the babies are different from the parents. This learning exercise is a graphic organizer with four fill in the blank statements.
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Unit Plan
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The Seasonal Cycle

For Teachers 2nd
Students complete a unit of lessons on the four seasons. They examine the effect each season has on plants, animals, and people during the actual season, read magazine and newspaper articles, and create a calendar and poster about each...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Seasonal Round and The Cycle of Life

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students identify important dates in the life of the school and the community through reserach and interviewing. They identify important dates in the state and nation and research various holidays and special occasions. Students design...
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Safety

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine crimes common among older adults. They compare the similarities and differences between crimes affecting both the young and old. They take and review a 'crime quiz'. They discuss resources in the community that provide...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Family Life Cycle - Breakfast Lab

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers review the nutritional needs of various age groups. In groups, they plan a breakfast meal for different age groups and spend time making the foods. To end the instructional activity, they serve the food to their...
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"Honey Dew from Bunny Too!"

For Teachers 6th - 12th
The students will design a lab to test the mechanism that triggers spore dispersal. They should have some clues after making observations of the life cycle. Part of the fun here is to let the students devise a method for testing this...

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