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Environment Common Core W.6.2 resources
Endangered Animals Research and Advocacy Brochure Project
Students engage in research about a threatened or endangered animal of their choice. Included are a research outline, online resource list, online brochure template ( via Google Slides), grading rubric, and teacher notes. Students will not only learn about their animal, but become an advocate for their animal and use the brochure to persuasively write about how their animal can be helped.I use this project as a culminating activity for our ecosystems unit. Students have knowledge of food chains
Making Sentences
30 printable or digital handouts to help your students write sentences. Each page has a wildlife photo, a word bank of nine words that relate to the photo, and numbered lines to write on: a hummingbird, a rabbit, a mountain goat, a dragonfly, a lynx spider, a painted lady butterfly, a feather, a pond, a lizard, a grasshopper, a wren, a bird’s nest, a squirrel, a water drop, a cactus, a leaf, and more. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: Writing BUNDLE
Writing about Wildlife and Nature
50 printable or digital writing activities for your students to describe wildlife and nature: lynx spider, katydid, common blue damselfly, house fly, western fence lizard, painted lady butterfly, robber fly, garden snail, green darner dragonfly, stink bug, Japanese beetle, millipede, pill bug (roly-poly), millipede, black carpenter ant, yellow jacket wasp, orchard spider, blue jay, whiptail lizard, grasshopper, assassin bug, wolf spider, praying mantis, wren, tarantula, millipede, Johnson jumpi
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2nd - 8th
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Global Warming BUNDLE
158 printable or digital pages for students to explore global warming. Students learn about:the food we eat and where it comes from, how we produce electricity, the effects of buildings on the climate, the increasing magnitude and frequency of storms, how changing weather harms plants and the animals that consume them,questions and writing prompts inspired by Greta Thunberg, and more.PRINT: I created PDF versions that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or a
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4th - 10th
Animal Adaptations Project: Creative Creatures: Biomes, Adaptations, Research
This animal adaptations project is a great way for students to apply their scientific knowledge of biomes and structural and behavioral adaptations in a fun and creative way!Each student researches an animal, the biome it currently lives in, and the structural and behavioural adaptations it currently has. Then they use their imagination and logic to imagine what new adaptations the animal would develop if it moved to a different biome. How would an arctic fox change if it lived in the desert? Wh
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4th - 7th
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Describing Butterflies, Bees and Birds - Nature Photos
100 printable lessons of DESCRIPTIVE WRITING:Butterflies: 38 pages of monarchs, a buckeye, a gulf fritillary, a gray hairstreak, a duskywing, an admiral, skippers, a painted lady, a mourning cloak, and a variety of caterpillarsBees: 30 pages of honey bees, a paper wasp, bumble bees, black bees, a silver-eyed bee, a yellow jacket wasp and a metallic green beeBirds: 32 pages of hummingbirds, wrens, a hawk, mallards, a black coot, a mother duck and her ducklings, a crow, a sparrow, a mourning do
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2nd - 7th
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Descriptive Writing - Earth Day
12 printable or digital pages to give your students ideas for describing a wildlife scene or setting surrounding a honeybee, butterfly, lizard, rabbit, duck, dragonfly, ladybug, turtle, squirrel, and more. Each page has a wildlife photo (taken by me) and ten additional clues about what might be nearby (a slithering snail, a nearby bird, marching ants, buzzing bees, drifting clouds, shadows, rocks, drifting leaves, and more). Your students will like these writing prompts (and you can use these
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2nd - 8th
Also included in: New Teacher Activities - April (First Year Teacher) BUNDLE
36 Guided Writing Tasks: The Environment
We offer you a complete set of 36 guided writing tasks focused on the topic of the environment. There are a wide variety of writing tasks covering persuasive, informational, explanatory, and narrative writing. This includes tasks for writing essays, reports, opinion pieces, short stories, personal narratives, and poems. It also includes tasks for creating timelines, flyers, and posters. Some of the topics covered include recycling, reusing, conservation, pollution, waste, deforestation, nationa
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3rd - 6th
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Ocean Conservation Interactive Slides and Oceans of the World Flipbook
Perfect for grades 4-6 for a unit on oceans/conservation or for earth day. Perfect for an engaging subject to practice reading comprehension and summarizing a text. Low involvement from the teacher, minimal prep. This resource will engage students in learning about why oceans are necessary. Interactive slides will ask students to match vocabulary words to their definitions, write ideas in a text box, and more. Flipbook craft requires scissors, glue or stapler, and optional colored pencils, mark
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4th - 6th
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Endangered Animals on Parade
Children enjoy learning about animals. They love reading about, watching them, and acquiring knowledge about their habits: what they eat, where they live, their size, their babies and their survival strategies. Add an animal’s conservation status, and children become intrigued with humanity’s role in both endangering and improving that status.Connecting the topic of Endangered Animals with your Language Arts program, you will be able to instruct, provide learning experiences, and assess the s
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3rd - 6th
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"Where is the Amazon?" by Sarah Fabiny Unit
This book tells the history of the Amazon River and rain forest. It discusses the exploration of the area and then tells about the structure and animals/plants that call the Amazon home. It also describes why the Amazon region is so important and what can be done to help preserve the rain forest. This is a great way to combine language arts with history and science!This unit includes the following: vocabulary/spelling words and activities, discussion questions, vocabulary tests, modified voc
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4th - 6th
Descriptive Writing - Animals and Nature
20 pages exploring animals and nature (printable and digital activity). Students write a paragraph describing what they see, noticing the details of each photo and the surrounding plants. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and download your copy. DIGITAL ACTIVITY: I created a digital version with text boxes so students can type in the answers using a computer or tablet (for Distance L
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3rd - 8th
Also included in: Spring Break - Distance Learning for Bored Kids BUNDLE
Global Warming and Solar Energy - Writing Prompts
25 printable or digital pages of writing prompts exploring global warming and solar energy: Descriptive writing, Narrative writing, Hypothetical writing, Make a list, Dialogue, Acrostic writing, Personal letter, Persuasive writing, Asking questions, Directions, Using your imagination, Sentences and paragraphs, and more... PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and download your copy. DIG
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4th - 12th
Also included in: Solar Energy BUNDLE (Global Warming and Climate Change)
Patterns in Nature - Observing & Describing
13 printable pages for students to observe and describe flowers, leaves, trees, fruit, vegetables, grass, bushes, and more. No prep! Just print and go. Take a look at the Preview to see sample pages.
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3rd - 8th
Describing Bugs - Insects and Spiders
10 printable and digital pages to engage students in analyzing roly-polies, spiders, honeybees, ladybugs, butterflies, centipedes, dragonflies, and lots more. Each page has four bug images to describe, like: How many legs it has, If it has wings, How long its antennae are, If it has a tough shell, If it is long and thin or fat and short. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Buy" and download your cop
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2nd - 8th
Also included in: Insects and Spiders BUNDLE
Descriptive Writing - Flowers and Plants
20 pages exploring flowers and plants (printable and digital activity). Students write a paragraph describing a photo: a flower and the surrounding plants. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and download your copy. DIGITAL ACTIVITY: I created a digital version with text boxes so students can type in the answers using a computer or tablet (for Distance Learning). Click on "Create Di
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3rd - 8th
Compare and Contrast - Earth Day
15 printable or digital pages to help your students compare and contrast on Earth Day: the Earth and Moon, nature and humans, a rainstorm and a cloudy sky, riding a surfboard vs riding a snowboard, a hot day vs a cold day, a raindrop vs a snowflake, summer fun vs winter fun, sweating vs shivering, and more. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and download your copy. DIGITAL ACTIVITY:
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3rd - 9th
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Also included in: Back to School Writing BUNDLE
Insects BUNDLE
This bundle contains 163 printable pages or digital activities to explore insects: butterflies, caterpillars, ants, wasps, flies, honeybees, bumblebees, grasshoppers, katydids, dragonflies, damselflies, moths, beetles, ladybugs, cicadas, and other insects... PRINT: I created PDF versions that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and download your copy. DIGITAL ACTIVITY: I created digital versions with text boxes so studen
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3rd - 8th
Analyzing Wildlife - Snakes, Frogs, Birds, Squirrels and Bugs
12 writing prompts to engage students in wondering about wildlife: What does a dragonfly think about while perched on a stick?Why would a frog sit still when it heard you walking nearby? How does a fly decide where to go and what to do all day? Why are some one color while others are lots of colors? How does a caterpillar know what to eat? Why do snakes slither along the ground? Are spiders afraid of snakes or thunder or the wind or anything? What happens when a bird sees something that i
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2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Bugs BUNDLE
Enrichment Writing Prompts using Wildlife Photos - Extra Credit (6th Grade)
33 writing prompts for sixth grade students. Each page has a wildlife photo and a question to promote critical thinking, such as: How are water and air alike?Why are flowers different colors?Why do animals need to be able to jump?What is the benefit of exercise?What is a flower made of?Are bugs dangerous?Where do plants come from?How did you learn to walk?What are you afraid of?Are leaves alive?How does a frog learn what to do?What helps an insect fly?Is it safe to pick up bugs?and more...PRINT
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6th
Plants - Writing Prompts
27 printable or digital pages to engage your students in thinking about flowers, trees, bushes and grass: How are BIRDS and PLANTS connected to each other? Which plants ITCH your legs and feet? How does a tree GROW? Why might you SIT on the GRASS? What might you FIND in an old tree? Why are there PLANTS on Earth? Where do animals HIDE? How are plants DIFFERENT from each other? and more...PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use i
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3rd - 8th
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Descriptive Writing - Butterflies, Birds, Bees
21 printable writing prompts: a bird on the ground, a dammed pond, a fallen tree, a butterfly on a flower, a dragonfly on a leaf, a grasshopper on a stem, a honeybee on a flower, a duck on a rock, a butterfly on a flower, a ladybug on a leaf, a creek, a lizard on woody litter, a rabbit on a trail, a mountain goat on a rock, turtles on a fallen tree, two damselflies on a stem, a butterfly on a flower, a hummingbird on a twig, a bench off a trail, a squirrel eating a nut, a honeybee on a flower.
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: Writing BUNDLE
Wisdom the Albatross
Introduce your students to Wisdom, the albatross as you help them understand how birds are studied, and how research is put into action to protect albatross and other seabirds. This eBook highlights the life of Wisdom, at over 70 years-old, is the oldest known wild bird. The book explores her life and how she inspires bird lovers everywhere. Student will read about the special features of the albatross and why this bird and its nesting habitat is so special. The eBook contains photos, interesti
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4th - 7th
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MS-LS1-5
, 4-LS1-1
, MS-LS1-4
75 Questions for Kids - Back to School Writing
75 printable or digital writing prompts to engage students in thinking about wildlife on their first few weeks of school: Why are people afraid of spiders? Which parts of nature are pointy? Can plants feel pain? How do plants find water? What does an insect think about? Is a mountain alive? Do insects talk to plants? Why are some plants poisonous? What are little animals afraid of? What is a tree made of? and more... Take a look at the Preview to see sample pages. And if you would l
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4th - 10th
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