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Describing Animals Crossword Puzzle
In this animals crossword puzzle worksheet, students use the 20 clues to identify the correct animal-related terms that will solve the crossword puzzle.
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Save the Bay
Students explore the concept of environmental stewardship. In this science lesson, students examine the environmental effects of oil spills as they replicate a contained oil spill and clean up.
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LitterFlotsam and Jetsam: A Little Litter Goes a Long Way
Students explore the concept of environmental stewardship. For this science lesson, students investigate data from the International Coastal Cleanup, identify sources of marine debris, and discover the impacts of this debris on wildlife.
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Stating Reasons and Giving Examples
In this paragraph construction worksheet, students read a model paragraph regarding Costa Rica. Students respond to 10 questions regarding the structure of the paragraph.
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Fearsome Creatures 2
In this fearsome creatures activity, students choose the correct words to fill in the blanks to sentences about dangerous animals. Students complete this for 10 animals.
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Have or Has?
In this have and has learning exercise, students fill in the blanks with have and has, rearrange words in sentences, and label pictures. Students complete 3 activities.
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A River Dead or Alive
For this Nashua River worksheet, students list the causes and effects of the uses of the Nashua River. Students have 8 boxes to fill out.
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Art/Ocean Scene
Students draw and color an ocean scene based on the paintings of Wyland. In this ocean art lesson plan, students view slides of seascapes before they complete their project using oil pastels.
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Stranded along the Coast
Middle schoolers plot stranding sites onto a map using latitude and longitude as well as compass directions with respect to coastal features. They identify several species of marine animals that might become stranded; distinguish their...
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Aggravating Adverbs Too
Fourth graders explore how to use the correct forms of adverbs to compare actions.
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Which Are Possible?
In this math worksheet, students solve 4 story problems in which 4 answer choices are given. More than one answer could be correct. Students choose the possible correct answers.
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North Carolina Symbols: T-Shirts or Calendars
Fourth graders draw a symbol or point of interest of North Carolina to be used to make a calendar or T-shirt. They draw an image in pencil and follow it through to a finished product.
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Emergency-Animal Rescue
Students brainstorm list of people and jobs they think are needed to rescue distressed marine animal, review entire Inside View: Riverhead Foundation site, create revised list, compare and contrast original class list to revised list,...
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Adorable Snow Folks
Students create "Snow Folks" using children's mittens, rice, wooden balls, and various art materials in this Art instructional activity for grades Four and up. The instructional activity includes picture examples and suggestions for...
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Get to the Point!
Young scholars discover what summarization is and why it is important. They focus on the five steps used to summarize and observe as the steps are used to summarize the article "Ghost Tigers of the Rain Forest" out of National Geographic...
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Tick Tock /t/
Students review letter recognition for the letter /t/ and the sound of the letter /t/. They write an upper- and lower-case /t/ and recognize the sound of t as well as the letter when combined with other letters in the form of a word.
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Sharkland Wiki
Students, while researching the waters around southern Africa and viewing a video of the episode "Sharkland" from Thirteen's series NATURE, critique reliability of online resources and analyze the various components of a wiki. They...
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Animal Top Trumps
Second graders evaluate different animals. In this animal parts lesson plan, 2nd graders create a game that compares animals based on five concepts- attack, defend, agility, speed and size.
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Breaking News English: Internet Trade Threatens Exotic Animals
In this English worksheet, students read "Internet Trade Threatens Exotic Animals," and then respond to 1 role playing, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the...
Other
Kidz Korner: Sea Turtles for Kids
This site provides an extensive list of sea turtle sites and includes "Turtle Trax" coloring pages that younger students can print out to color.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Folktales: "Why Turtles Live in Water" [Pdf]
This is a one-page PDF of the West African tale "Why Turtles Live In Water."
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Turtle Dove's Nest and Other Rhymes by William Mc Connell
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Turtle Dove's Nest and Other Rhymes by William McConnell (1887), a fragment of the Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes book.
Saint Louis Zoo
Saint Louis Zoo: Narrow Headed Softshell Turtle
Discover fun facts and learn about the appearance, diet, breeding, habitat, behavior, and conservation status of the narrow-headed softshell turtle.
Encyclopedia of Life
Encyclopedia of Life: Alligator Snapping Turtle
The Encyclopedia of Life presents this in-depth overview of Alligator Snapping Turtles (Macrochelys temminckii), including their habitats, size, conservation status, and much more. Images of this species and maps of its global...