Category Archives: Animals
Peregrine Falcon Cam- live streaming of nesting falcons
PEREGRINE FALCONS have used nesting locations in downtown Salt Lake City since 1984. This spring, like most, the falcons are using a nesting box located on the Joseph Smith Memorial Building at South Temple and Main Street. If you’re in … Continue reading
Black and White Animals- Art project, science lesson, and bulletin board
Submitted by Natalie N. “Black and White Animals” For our Animal unit in science, we discuss the usual animal things: habitat, cold blooded- vs. warm blooded, prey and predators, adaptations, camouflage, etc. We then look at animals that are primarily … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptations, animal lesson, art bulletin boards, black and white animal, black and white animals, camouflage, habitat, hornbill, killer whale, killer whales, science animal lesson, science bulletin boards
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Name the Baby Animal- lesson on locating information, science lesson for elementary
Submitted my Trish M During our science unit on animals, I give my students the sheet you see below. They are given time to find the names of the animal babies. Since my students are old enough, I gave them … Continue reading
Free Science Resources for Your Interactive Whiteboard
I found this great information on misterteacher.com. Free Science Resources for Your Interactive Whiteboard 1. Photosynthesis Animation – A great animation that teachers can play/pause/replay to show what plants need to carry out photosynthesis. Use in a lesson on plants … Continue reading
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Tagged cirrus, cirrus clouds, clouds, cumulonimbus, cumulus, cumulus clouds, food chain, food web, light, photosynthesis, plants, reflection, refraction, stratus, stratus clouds, transmission of light, weather
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Ick or Eat? – Science Bulletin Board for the study of animals/food chain with elementary students
Ick or Eat? Many young students do not understand where a hamburger, slice of bacon, or chicken wing really comes from. Help your students learn about mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish and which animals we eat.
Posted in Animals, Early Childhood Bulletin Boards, Early Elementary Bulletin Boards, Science, Science Bulletin Boards
Tagged animals, birds, bulletin boards, fish, food chain, food chain bulletin board, mammals, maurice sendak, repitles, science bulletin board, science bulletin boards, study of animals
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Basic Needs of Animals Poster- Science lesson and art project
Students illustrate and write about the basic needs of animals. Example shown: Oxygen, food, water, climate, shelter
Posted in Animals, Art, Art Lesson Plans, Art Projects, Early Elementary Lesson Plans, Intermediate Grades Lesson Plans, Late Elementary Lesson Plans, Lesson Plans, Science, Science Lesson Plans
Tagged animal needs, animal needs poster, animal poster, animals, basic needs of animals, basic needs of animals poster, science
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Create a Terrarium- Science lesson and activity to show how living and nonliving things interact
You can do this as a class terrarium or have students make their own. Some teachers assign it as a project, and some offer it as extra credit. Materials needed: container for terrarium (an empty 2-liter bottle even works) small … Continue reading
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Tagged create a terrarium, living and nonliving things, make a terrarium, organisms, plants and animals, science activity, science lesson, terrarium
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Bill Nye the Science Guy on Reptiles- video
From youtube.com (2:10) Reptile skin is warm to the touch, even though they may be cold-blooded. A reptile’s scales are tough even though they’re bending about on the soft skin. Other than that, they’re a lot lke us, not exactly, … Continue reading
All About Geckos- video
Posted in Animals, Early Childhood, Early Elementary, High School, Intermediate Grades, Late Elementary, Science
Tagged animal, animal video, gecko, reptile, san diego zoo, video, zoo
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Recycled Sea Life Creatures- art/craft or science for early childhood and elementary
From makingfriends.com Make an octopus, squid and a sea anemone from recycled cardboard tubes. You need: Empty Paper Towel Tube Tacky Glue Paint and Brush Two Wiggle Eyes — 20mm Scissors Hole Punch Construction Paper Instructions: To make octopus legs, … Continue reading
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Tagged art, craft, earth day, octopus, recycle, recycled materials, sea anemone, sea creatures, sea life, squid, underwater
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Birds-NestCams, science enrichment lesson on birds for any grade level
From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Visit a live cam. Choose from the pictures, or the numerous choices on the drop down menu. http://watch.birds.cornell.edu/nestcams/camera/index
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Tagged animals, birds, live cam, nesting, nests, science, streaming, video
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