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Candy DNA Model Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explore DNA structure using materials such as Twizzlers, small colored gumdrops and/or toothpicks.
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Rain Forest Animals

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils create a book about animal species found only in the Amazon rain forest. They find one species to represent each letter of the alphabet, and write each name on a different piece of paper. They illustrate each page with an original...
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Predator-Prey Relationships

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the interrelatedness of predators and prey in four different activities. They simulate an aquatic insect, fish, and osprey food chain during a poker chip game, play an M&M game to simulate the relationship between...
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Sea Turtle Savvy

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore sea turtles. They create paper plate sea turtles and brainstorm other organisms that live in the sea turtle's habitat. They role-play scenes from a nonfiction book, A Baby Sea Turtle's Journey. They play a game...
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Can You Beat Jet Lag?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners examine the health condition of jet lag. Using mealworms, they test the effect of light on the development of them into adults. They answer discussion questions and examine the relationship of age and one's activity level.
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Explorations Through Time

For Students 9th - 12th
In this earth history worksheet, students visit a website and complete 15 fill in the blank and 8 short answer questions based on what they read. Topics include biodiversity, animal kingdoms, evolution, fossils, and extinction.
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Wild Animal Science

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students discover how environmental factors impact the survival of a population. In this landscape design lesson, students create a new animal and discuss the relationship between the animal and its environment before creating a habitat...
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Human Inventions with Animal Features

For Students 7th - 10th
In this animal features worksheet, students match different animal features with the human invention that is similar. Students match 9 inventions and then complete 3 short answer questions.
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Smarty Plants

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Young scholars examine plants and pollinators. In this plant biology lesson, students read The Power of Pollinators and identify the parts of the plant and the pollinators. Young scholars design their own imaginary plants.
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What's For Dinner?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners explore the food chain. They brainstorm and create a consumer-consumed food chains using magazine pictures and research materials. Students identify consumer-consumed relationships.
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VERTEBRATES

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders describe the main characteristics of warm-blooded vertebrate animals. They compare and contrast the two different groups of warm-blooded vertebrate animals by looking at external, reproductive, and growth characteristics.
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Your Favorite Wild Animal

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this research skills worksheet, students select a wild animal and then respond to 5 short answer questions regarding it. In addition, students draw a picture of it and define 6 habitat terms.
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The Night Tree

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the book, Night Tree, by Eve Bunting. They read and discuss the story, identify what the tree did for the animals, create a food chain for animals to hang on a tree, and decorate a tree at school.
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Biological Taxonomy

For Students 6th - 10th
For this biology worksheet, students read about biological taxonomy. They then use the information they learned to answer the 13 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Critters in Your Own Backyard

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify various animals and their habitats, as well as their specific traits In this animal habitat lesson, students list animals they've seen in their backyard. Students select one animal and do research. Students then answer...
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Animal Parenting

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students analyze parenting instincts. In this parenting instincts instructional activity, students view a drawing of animal they studies and describe what they learned about the animal. Students teach the class about their animal and the...
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How Animals Prepare for the Winter

For Teachers K
Pupils study animals. In this hibernation lesson, students are read Stranger in the Woods and they discuss what various animals do in their habitat during the winter. They work as a class to create their own hibernation environment using...
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Environment: Understanding Climate Impacts

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate the potential environmental consequences of climate change. They conduct Internet research to discover how climate change may impact certain species of animals and present their findings in a poster or skit. Students...
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Transportation

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students read about various modes of transportation for people, plants, and animals. In this transportation lesson, students read information about the transportation modes for people plants, and animals using water and land. Students...
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The Earth's Rain Forests

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the importance of the world's rain forests. In this rain forest lesson, students read about the role of the rain forests in the world's environment. Students then write a formal letter to a member of Congress or Senate...
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Animals Alphabetical Order

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this animals activity, students put names of animals into alphabetical order. Students put 15 animal names into alphabetical order.
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Just Ducky - a puzzle about ducks

For Students 5th - 8th
In this ducks worksheet, students create a crossword puzzle about ducks. Students complete 29 blanks inside the crossword puzzle.
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Animals of the Arctic

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discover the animals that make the Canadian Arctic their home. In this Arctic animals instructional activity, students research the animals that live in the region and create posters that feature their findings.
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Marine Field Trip to Whytecliff Park

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study the intertidal habitat, tidal pools and the organisms that live in them.  In this aquatic ecosystems lesson students take a field trip and experience first hand the local seashore environment.