Students will explore animal movements. They will compare movements and relate them to where animals live and how they obtain food.

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In this task students have to interpret expressions involving two variables in the context of a real world situation. All given expressions can be interpreted as quantities that one might study when looking at two animal populations.

This Illustrative Mathematics task students have to interpret expressions involving two variables in the context of a real world situation.

This resource is a google slide created to help students begin research for an animal report. This will help them use the explora piece to Utah's Online Library  

This project is designed to help students create a short documentary film using the information they gathered to create an animal report. It can be used after writing an animal report or can be adapted to be used as the actual animal report. It can be designed to appear as a documentary series with all students having the same title opening, or be completely standalone. Students will be learning to find creative commons photos and videos to use in their film. They will create their film using iMovie on their iPads. Brown-Throated three-toed sloth female face.jpg- Wikimedia Commons

In this lesson, students will have the opportunity to research information about their favorite animal on World Book Kids.  They will take notes on the provided note sheet, and will include these facts in a short 2 paragraph report.   Citation for title image:"Polar bear hunting" World Book Kids, World Book, 2022. Online image,   www.worldbookonline.com/kids/media?id=pc344977. Accessed 07 Feb. 2022.

This is a lesson plan to introduce research and writing informational text based on this research.Example of openly licensed Citation: "Animals - Cute Zoo" by Lesya Skripack from Russia is licensed under FreePik. Image Created by: Lesya Skripack 

In this lesson, students will learn a simple, kid friendly way to do research.  Their notes will later be used as they write an informational animal report.

This is a lesson plan designed to meet habitat standards and informative writing standards for 2nd grade. 

Second grade students will be able to write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.*All photos are my original photos. 

Students will conduct a research project on an animal of choice. Students will present the information they found in the storytelling format.

In this unit of study students learn how an animal's body structure and behavior help it survive in its habitat. This unit integrates nine STEM attributes and was developed as part of the South Metro-Salem STEM Partnership's Teacher Leadership Team. Any instructional materials are included within this unit of study.

Students listen to fiction and nonfiction read-alouds and explore selected Websites to identify factual information about animals. This lesson focuses on ants, but can be adapted to any animal.

Learn about the structure and function of living organisms by drawing an imaginary animal in the Take the Stage game show, ANIMAL SURVIVAL! Viewers become contestants on a game show and are challenged to draw an imaginary animal that could live and survive in either the desert, ocean, or the arctic tundra. When drawing the imaginary animal, the contestants write out two distinct structures and a function for each of the structures that help it survive. Learning Objective: Compare the structures and functions of different species that help them live and survive in a specific environment.

Learn about the physical characteristics of environments and act out the animals that live there!

You are the next contestant on the Take the Stage game show ANIMAL SURVIVAL where you will travel in a hot air balloon to the forest of North America, the savanna of Africa, and then take a submarine ride underwater in the ocean. To play the game, you will act out an animal that would live in each environment, and then write how the physical characteristics of each environment helps your animal survive.

Learning Objective: observe and describe the physical characteristics of environments and how they support populations and communities of plants and animals within an ecosystem.

This in an Animal Unit designed for third grade science curriculum. It includes information on animal life cycles, inherited traits, and habitats.

This lesson is for K2 to learn animals vocabulary in Chinese. Students will take photos of animals at home or search photos online and then make a storytelling video by using Adobe spark video. 

This lesson is part of a larger research unit, students have their source material and will highlight keywords and phrases using the graphic organizer from Step Up to Writing and build a paragraph on animal contributions to their environment.