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Help! There Are Too Many Dogs and Cats and Not Enough Homes!
Students discuss the importance of spaying and neutering pets. In this animal care lesson, students create a make believe animal shelter. They discuss what happens to animals in the shelter and if no one wants to take them home.
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What's in it and Who Eats it?
First graders explore farming by illustrating images. In this livestock instructional activity, 1st graders discuss what types of plants are used to feed livestock animals and how pets and humans eat the livestock animals. Students draw...
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Hogs on a Diet
Learners discuss the meaning of "hogging" something, and speculate on the origin of this phrase. They attempt to guess the contents of a shoe box (without looking inside). Students view feed grains and discuss animals that eat these...
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The Marvelous Mule
In this mules learning exercise, students complete a ten question multiple choice online interactive quiz about details relating to mules. Prior knowledge is assumed.
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Gerbils
In this gerbils worksheet, students complete a ten question multiple choice online interactive quiz about details related to the care and feeding of pet gerbils. Prior knowledge is assumed.
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Landscape Garden Makeover
A project-based learning plan focuses on landscapes in the community. After identifying problems, such as dead trees or misplaced automatic sprinklers, learners design solutions, contact local organizations to fix the problems, and do...
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Rabbit Habits
In this rabbits worksheet, students complete a ten question multiple choice online interactive quiz about details related to rabbit behavior.
University of California
Artificially Selecting Dogs
Selective breeding has resulted in some novel and beautiful or useful dogs over the years. Using the American Foxhound as an example, genetics learners find out how and why they came about. Then, in small groups, they select breeds to...
Curated OER
Out of the Freshwater Aquarium
In this online quiz worksheet, students answer a set of multiple choice questions about freshwater aquarium fish. Page includes links to answers and resources.
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Freshwater Fish and Fish-keeping
For this online quiz worksheet, students answer a set of questions about freshwater fish. Answers may be submitted for review by clicking a link at the bottom of the page.
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Ecosystem Organization - Lesson Plan
Student explore ecosystems. In this ecosystem organization lesson, students consider how scientists study living organisms. Students participate in a teacher guided activity that requires them to visualize an organism and imagine its...
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Archaeobotany
Learners study pictures of seeds and the conditions in which they grow during their study of archaeobotany. They infer ancient plant use by looking at archaeobotanical samples. They determine the change of plant use by interpreting a...
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Tundra Animals
Explore this comprehensive resource on the birds and mammals of the tundra. This resource features information such as diet, class, order, size, habitat, conservation range and the like.
PBS
Pbs Nature: Pigs
This resource offers a clear and concise description of domesticated pigs. Students who need help narrowing their informational search will benefit from this type of condensed resource.
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Natural History Notebooks
This site from the Canadian Museum of Nature, a natural history museum, provides short information blurbs and fun facts on over 240 different common animals categorized by type (mammals, fish, reptiles, invertebrates, amphibians,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Gallery: Civilization
Explore the images of this gallery and consider how increased productivity from the land, food surpluses, and swelling populations changed the types of communities that humans lived in.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Pictures & Stories From Natural History by Mc Loughlin Bros.
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Pictures & Stories from Natural History by McLoughlin Bros. (1886), a nonfiction, illustrated book about all types of animals including domestic, farm, wild, and...
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Eternal Egypt: Ichneumon
The ichneumon is a type of mongoose that is found in much of Africa. It is a little larger than a domestic cat. The mongoose was included among the sacred animals during the Middle Kingdom.