Students will create a food chain model and use it to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. Resources include a detailed lesson plan, student handouts, pictures of a completed chain, examples of student work, and a video of the lesson in action.
There is something gross under the cafeteria table. Do you pick it up? Gross! How about we mimic a bird's beak to solve the problem of picking up our trash? This lesson models walking through the first few steps of the Engineering Design Process--ask a question, imagine, and plan. Included in this lesson are videos, classroom videos and pictures, slideshows, and a data sheet.
An overview of the major trends in animal evolution.
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This comprehensive study guide covers the necessary vocabulary and concepts for a unit on animal behavior.
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This digital textbook covers core biology concepts and includes interactive features, real-world examples, videos, and study guides.
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Learn about Canada's boreal forest and its importance to our whole earth's ecosystem. Meet the flora and fauna that inhabit this large area, and learn what we can and should do to preserve this environment.
Contains plans for five 50-minute interdisciplinary lessons that ask students to write about math-related, informational books such as "Actual Size" (Jenkins, 2004) and "If You Hopped Like a Frog" (Schwartz, 1999). Students use books like these as models to write their own math-related books about animals. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.
During interactive read-aloud sessions, students identify how an author conveys mathematical information about animals' sizes and abilities. They then conduct research projects focusing on the same mathematical concepts.
In this video segment from Outdoor Nevada, learn about burrowing owls, yearlong residents of open, dry grassland and desert habitats, and the only owls that nest underground and are active both day and night. [1:43]
CK-12’s Life Science delivers a full course of study in the life sciences for the middle school student, relating an understanding of the history, disciplines, tools, and modern techniques of science to the exploration of cell biology, molecular biology, genetics, evolution, prokaryotes, protists,fungi, plants, animals, invertebrates, vertebrates, human biology, and ecology. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with California content standards.
This 3-day activity reinforces what students have learned about animals. The activities focus on pets: cats, dogs, birds, and fish. Main Curriculum Tie: English Language Arts Kindergarten Reading: Literature Standard 2, with prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. Activities in this unit reinforce what students have learned throughout the year about animals. For each activity, a different group of animals is studied. These activities focus on pets: cats, dogs, birds, and fish. Students will re-read both fiction and non-fiction stories that have been previously introduced during the school year. As they read the books, they will have activities to complete in order to earn their “badge” for that animal. Each student will make a paper bag vest on which they will be able to display badges they have earned.
This site features an extensive list of poems and songs for every event during the school year. Explore the seasons, colors, holidays, and more.
Meet an agricultural inspector whose start as a beekeeper led him to a career as a county apiary inspector. Watch him inspect bee hives and you learn about the important connection between bee pollination and a healthy food supply for humans.
Do you think a career in animal breeding might be interesting? This article in Science Buddies gives a clear assessment of what you might expect in that career. Find out what education you need, what the work environment is like, and what the job itself entails. Included is a video that explains the responsibilities of an animal breeder.
Children design an animal habitat and talk about how the habitat provides the animal's basic needs -- shelter, water, and food -- using this block center activity. It includes three resources.
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In this video segment from Nature, Cloud, a two-year-old horse, interacts with his family in the wild. [3:23]
In this interactive lesson supporting literacy skills, students watch video dramatizations that tell the story of the Spanish explorers who arrived in the Americas with Columbus and introduced European, African, and Asian plants and animals to the Western Hemisphere.
The goal of the Listening and Learning Strand is for students to acquire language competence through listening, specifically building a rich vocabulary, and broad knowledge in history and science by being exposed to carefully selected, sequenced, and coherent read-alouds. The 9 units (or domains) provide lessons (including images and texts), as well as instructional objectives, core vocabulary, and assessment materials. The domain topics include: Different Lands, Similar Stories; Fables and Stories; The Human Body; Early World Civilizations; Early American Civilizations; Astronomy; Animals & Habitats; Fairy Tales; and History of the Earth.
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This article lists common misconceptions about mammals. It provides formative assessment probes and information about teaching for conceptual change.