Topic: Animals

  • Be a Super Science Sleuth: Ecosystems Scavenger Hunt

    Be a Super Science Sleuth: Ecosystems Scavenger Hunt

    Students will love this fun scavenger hunt to learn about ecosystems, photosynthesis, abiotic, biotic, carnivores, omnivores, and herbivores.

    This mini-unit includes seven short passages with real-life photos to post around the classroom. Using the two organizers and a clipboard students act as detectives to track down the answers to the questions.

    This is a wonderful way to get students actively involved with the information literally by getting them up and out of their seats.

    If desired, you could do this as a stations or centers activity too! This works fantastic as an introduction at the beginning of the unit or as a review activity. It’s perfect for partners or group work.

    Little prep work to save you time:
    ✔ Print posters and organizers
    ✔ Copy two scavenger hunt organizers back to back
    ✔ Post posters around the classroom (or at stations/centers)
    ✔ Assign partners or groups
    ✔ Hand out scavenger hunt organizers and clipboards
    ✔ Set timer (about 5-8)
    ✔ Have students rotate to the next spot

    There is an additional ”ECOSYSTEMS” acrostic chart for students to write down one fact for each letter. This works well for fast finishers or as an additional challenge activity. Hope your students love this activity as much as mine do! Answer keys are included.

    This set includes:
    ⭐ 7 Ecosystem Passage Posters
    ⭐ Ecosystems Scavenger Hunt Organizers (2 pages)
    ⭐ Ecosystems Acrostic Chart to collect 10 additional facts
    ⭐ Answer Key

    This set includes information and questions about the following topics:
    ✔ What is an Ecosystem?
    ✔ Abiotic and Biotic
    ✔ Herbivores, Carnivores, and Omnivores
    ✔ Photosynthesis
    ✔ Habitats and Adaptations
    ✔ Producers, Consumers, & Decomposers
    ✔ Basic Needs and Survival

  • All About Those Batty Bats Powerpoint

    All About Those Batty Bats Powerpoint

    Bats are amazing little creatures that are very helpful to people! Bats are mammals just like us! But the one thing that makes bats special from all other mammals is that they can fly!

    This 26 slide Batty for Bats PowerPoint presentation has colorful graphics to help students visualize and connect with the content. It’s geared for 1st grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd-grade students.
    Students will learn all about these batty mammals with information about:
    ✔ A bat’s diet
    ✔ Body parts of a bat
    ✔ Echolocation ability of a bat
    ✔ Bat nesting habits and hibernation
    ✔ Ways bats help people
    ✔ Vocabulary slides
    ✔ 5 Question Quiz
    ✔ Answer Key
    ✔ For Elementary Grades – First grade, Second grade, Third grade
    ✔ Common Core Aligned

    ⭐ Be sure to check out the PREVIEW for more information.

    Your students will love this Batty for Bats slideshow Presentation!

    Want activities and printables to follow along with this presentation? Check out My Batty for Bats Activity Packs with many interactive activities for students including:
    ✔ 3 character bat stories
    ✔ 4 high-interest informational articles about bats
    ✔ An Uninvited Guest – a batty story featuring Xavier & Andrea
    ✔ Vocabulary Posters
    ✔ Vocabulary Flip Flaps
    ✔ Author’s Purpose
    ✔ Cause/Effect
    ✔ Batty for Bats Organizer
    ✔ A Mini Accordion Bat Book
    ✔ Compare/contrast bats and you
    ✔ Color the True Facts Bats
    ✔ Writing Prompts

    There are many ways to use the Batty for Bats Activity Pack in the classroom depending on your students and the time allotted for this unit.

    There are 4 main activities:
    Introduce the unit with the 3 fun and factual character bats: Buddy Boo, Berry Boo, and Bitty Boo. Have students write three facts they learned about their favorite bat on writing paper choices that match the bats. These look great as a display on a bulletin board.

    Next, read the “An Uninvited Guest” story and answer the questions to pique their interest and build background knowledge. These are perfect for guided reading groups with two sets of skill-based questions. This is also a great discussion starter for real-life situations involving bats.

    Introduce the 6 vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters included. You could post these posters around the classroom and have students travel around to match up and define the words in their flip flaps or use as a center activity. In addition, the vocabulary flip flaps are a great hands-on activity that works well in their interactive notebooks.

    Next, have students read the 4 informational articles and complete the Batty for Bats Organizer (2-sided). These are great for centers or group work.

    The final project is a Batty for Bats Accordion Book. There are three options to do this depending on age and time limits. They will color, cut, and build the book. Once completed it can be used as a stand-alone mini booklet or be glued inside their notebooks.

  • Let’s Learn About Animals with Carnivores, Herbivores, and Omnivores

    Let’s Learn About Animals with Carnivores, Herbivores, and Omnivores

    Students will love learning all about herbivores, carnivores, omnivores with this fun and engaging resource. This unit includes articles, trifold organizers, and activities to accompany the study of each type of animal.

    Case studies and a variety of activities are included for each:
    ⭐ Herbivores,
    ⭐ Carnivores
    ⭐ Omnivores

    Plus there are lots of kid-friendly and engaging activities:
    ✔ Tri-fold Organizers—perfect for INBs
    ✔ Comprehension Questions
    ✔ Five Facts Webs
    ✔ Pocket Animal Cut and Sort Activity
    ✔ Can you find? coloring activities
    ✔ Fact or Fiction Activities
    ✔ Vocabulary Posters
    ✔ Vocabulary Flip Flaps

    There are 3 Main Activities:

    Vocabulary:
    Introduce the vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters. You could post these posters around the classroom and have the students travel around to write the definitions under the flip flaps in their notebooks. These look fantastic on a bulletin board too!

    Reading – Set up Learning Stations:
    Set up a learning station or science center for each type of animal. For each station print and copy the following:
    ✔ Reading Passages
    ✔ Tri-fold Organizers (copy back to back)
    ✔ Five Facts Webs
    ✔ Identify & Sort Photo Activities
    ✔ Fact or Fiction Coloring Activities

    Have students read the passages, answer the questions, and complete the tri-fold organizers for each one.

    Student Activities:
    There are lots of activities included for partner work, fast-finishers, whole group discussion, homework, or for reviewing at the end of the unit.
    ✔ Pocket Animal Sort Activity
    ✔ Can you find coloring activity

    Be sure to check out the PREVIEW for more information

  • Animal Habitats Powerpoint

    Animal Habitats Powerpoint

    Learning about animal habitats is so much fun! Your students will love learning all about these 10 unique habitats with this colorful and informative 77-slideshow presentation. There are several slides about each habitat. There is also a 10 question quiz with an answer key to check for understanding and several vocabulary slides to reinforce important terms.

    The habitats included:

    ⭐ Oceans

    ⭐ Grasslands

    ⭐ Savannas

    ⭐ Wetlands

    ⭐ Deserts

    ⭐ Woodlands

    ⭐ Polar Regions

    ⭐ Mountain Regions

    ⭐ Tundra

    ⭐ Tropical Rainforests

  • Animal Habitats with Savanna, Grassland, Woodlands, Dessert, Tundra, Rainforests, Tundra

    Animal Habitats with Savanna, Grassland, Woodlands, Dessert, Tundra, Rainforests, Tundra

    Animal Habitats Unit: Ocean, Savannah, Grasslands Woodlands Desert, Rainforest & more! This BEST SELLING unit includes reading passages and worksheets for 10 different habitats with fun & easy activities to reinforce learning. This NO-PREP pack will be a huge TIMESAVER! Have students read the passages and answer the comprehension questions about each habitat. Each passage has a habitat scene for students to color and connects to the information.

    The habitats included in this packet are:

    • Oceans
    • Grasslands
    • Savannas
    • Wetlands
    • Deserts
    • Woodlands
    • Polar Regions: The Antarctic and The Arctic
    • Mountain Regions
    • Tundra
    • Rainforest Gallery Walk Activity: This unit also includes a unique activity where students work in pairs to design a mystery habitat poster to display. Then, they do a fun gallery walk around the classroom looking at each poster to try and figure out which habitat it represents.
  • Animal Adaptions Unit with Giraffes, Camels, Dolphins, Gorillas & Jane Goodall

    Animal Adaptions Unit with Giraffes, Camels, Dolphins, Gorillas & Jane Goodall

    Learning about Animal Adaptations & Animal Habitats has never been so much fun! In this pack, you’ll find 15 passages, comprehension and connection activities, vocabulary posters, case studies on giraffes, camels, and dolphins, writing activities, and so much more! You will love this kid-friendly, interactive unit packed full of student-centered activities!

    Animal Adaptations is a nonfiction resource pack specifically geared for Grades 3-5. This printable activity pack focuses on Animal Adaptations through the use of high-interest informational articles in kid-friendly language.

    The main skills and concepts of this unit focus on:
    ⭐ Animal Adaptations
    ⭐ Physical Adaptations
    ⭐ Behavioral Adaptations
    ⭐ Hibernation
    ⭐ Migration
    ⭐ Camouflage
    ⭐ Instincts
    ⭐ Learned Behaviors
    ⭐ Endangered and Extinction
    ⭐ With Case Studies on Camels, Giraffes, and Dolphins

    There are two character studies where students will meet and learn about two influential animal researchers and zoologists!
    ⭐ Meet Jane Goodall
    ⭐ Meet Dian Fossey
    ⭐ Make a character mini-booklet (2)

    This complete unit comes with many engaging student activities including:
    ✔ Graphic Organizers for each animal
    ✔ Constructive Response Questions
    ✔ Who Migrates the Farthest? Chart-Building
    ✔ Instincts vs. Learned Behavior Activity
    ✔ Concept and Vocabulary Flap books for students to use in their science interactive notebooks or binders.
    ✔ Compare and Contrast
    ✔ Animals that Hibernate Activity
    ✔ Hibernate or Migrate Station
    ✔ A Day in Your Life Writing Activity
    ✔ What I Want to Learn: Focus on Learned Behaviors
    ✔ End of Unit Project: My New Animal!
    ✔ Unit Reflection
    ✔ For Elementary Grades – Third grade, Fourth grade, Fifth grade
    ✔ Common Core Aligned

    Be sure to check out the PREVIEW for more information

    Using my Five Step Method below makes learning about animal adaptations meaningful and fun for students.

    Part 1: Hook’em with “Fast Facts True or False” Anticipatory Guide. Students predict at the beginning of the unit the answers to guided questions and then check-n-correct their answers after learning the information and end of the unit.

    Part 2: Read-n-Visualize with high-interest informational articles all about animal adaptations with real-life photographs written in kid-friendly language. These black and white masters of the articles are perfect to use as unit mini-lessons, study guides, or even as notes for their binders or interactive notebooks.

    Part 3: Focus on Skills: to reinforce and enhance student learning with a variety of skill-based activities such as:
    Fact vs. Opinion
    True/False
    Making Connections
    Predicting
    Visualizing
    Compare/Contrast
    Vocabulary
    CRQ’s
    Using evidence & supporting details
    Create a Chart based on information

    Part 4: Realistic Posters with real-life photographs to use on the document camera or ideal for bulletin boards to introduce this topic. Afterward, you can either laminate these for another year or bind them together as a book for your classroom library.

    Part 5: Show What You Know! Student questions, writing prompts, activities, projects, and reflection to evaluate learning. Reflections are perfect for student portfolios and Parent Teacher Conferences.

  • Animal Adaptions Task Cards

    Animal Adaptions Task Cards

    Task cards are a fun and engaging way to reinforce learning and review at the end of a unit. They are so versatile because there are so many different ways to use them in the classroom!

    Here are a few fabulous ways to use them:
    ✔ as scoot cards –get the kiddos moving around the room
    ✔ as desk rotations or all around the room games
    ✔ for science centers
    ✔ as a closure activity at the end of a lesson
    ✔ as a question of the day on the overhead projector
    ✔ as a review game
    ✔ as a quiet activity for fast finishers
    ✔ for indoor recess
    ✔ to study for an upcoming test or assessment

    They work well for partner work or individual work. I’ve even sent them home on a few occasions with some of my students to use as a study tool for an upcoming test or assessment.

    This set includes:
    ✔ 48 different colored cards
    ✔ Student Recording Sheet (copy back to back)
    ✔ Answer Key
    ✔ Blank Cards

    Bonus Set:
    ✔ 16 Vocabulary Words
    ✔ 16 Definition Cards
    ✔ These are great to use for sort and match-up games or as flashcards to help students study.

    Just print, cut, and laminate. These are best if printed on card stock and laminated to keep them preserved for years to come. Wipe down and store in large ziplock baggies.

    More great news!! New science and social studies task cards and other interactive activities and games are coming soon! These are the perfect complement to my science and social studies units.

    This set includes questions about the following topics:
    ✔ Physical Adaptations
    ✔ Behavioral Adaptations
    ✔ Hibernation
    ✔ Migration
    ✔ Instincts vs. Learned Behaviors
    ✔ Mimicry
    ✔ Camouflage
    ✔ Questions About Specific Animal Adaptations
    ✔ Short Answer Questions
    ✔ True or False Questions
    ✔ Fill in the Blank Questions

  • Animal Adaptions Powerpoint

    Animal Adaptions Powerpoint

    Your students will love this colorfully designed 90 Slide PowerPoint Presentation!

    This unit includes a 90 Slide PowerPoint Presentation has been newly updated and improved as of March 2016! It is perfect for teaching a unit on Animal Adaptations geared for 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th grade students.

    This Animal Adaptations Slideshow includes:
    ⭐ 90 slide PowerPoint Presentation to teach the key concepts related to animal adaptations with a close-up look at giraffes, camels, dolphins, and gorillas.
    ⭐ It also has a 10 question quiz to check for understanding and vocabulary slides to highlight keywords.

    The main skills and concepts of this unit focus on:
    ⭐ Animal Adaptations
    ⭐ Physical Adaptations
    ⭐ Behavioral Adaptations
    ⭐ Hibernation
    ⭐ Migration
    ⭐ Camouflage
    ⭐ Instincts
    ⭐ Learned Behaviors
    ⭐ Endangered and Extinction
    ⭐ With Case Studies on Camels, Giraffes, and Dolphins
    ⭐ For Upper Elementary Grades – Second grade, Third grade, Fourth grade
    ⭐ Common Core Aligned

  • Alphabet Posters: Animals (A to Z)

    Alphabet Posters: Animals (A to Z)

    This set of 26 Alphabet Photo Posters feature real photos with different animals that students will love. Add these to your alphabet line to create a one of a kind design in your classroom!

    For best results, print these posters on 8.5 x 11 cardstock or premium brochure and flyer paper from Office Depot. Laminate to preserve them for years to come!

    What’s Included:
    ✔ Alligator
    ✔ Bear
    ✔ Cat
    ✔ Dog
    ✔ Elephant
    ✔ Fish
    ✔ Goldfish
    ✔ Horse
    ✔ Iguana
    ✔ Jellyfish
    ✔ Kangaroo
    ✔ Lion
    ✔ Monkey
    ✔ Newt
    ✔ Otter
    ✔ Penguin
    ✔ Quail
    ✔ Rabbit
    ✔ Snake
    ✔ Tiger
    ✔ Urchin
    ✔ Vulture
    ✔ Whale
    ✔ X-ray Fish
    ✔ Yak
    ✔ Zebra

  • All About Wolves Unit

    All About Wolves Unit

    Students will love learning all about wolves with this hands-on activity pack! In this unit, there are reading passages, comprehension questions, fun activities, vocabulary posters, and a flip book!

    This unit includes reading passages about:

    ⭐ The Way of the Wolf

    ⭐ The Wolf Life Cycle

    There are lots of hands-on activities to complement this unit including:

    ✔ Comprehension questions

    ✔ Organizers

    ✔ Life Cycle Diagram

    ✔ All About Wolves–cut-n-sort activity

    ✔ Flip Booklet

    ✔ Vocabulary Photo Posters

    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary

    There are three main activities in this unit:

    Reading:

    Read the passages all about wolves and answer the questions on the organizers.

    Hands-on Activities:

    ✔ All About Wolves

    Students read the statements to determine which of the statements are facts or opinions. Then they cut and paste the facts on the activity page.

    ✔ The Gray Wolf Flip Book:

    Answer the questions on each page of the flip book. Then cut, color, and assemble the booklet. Flip books are an excellent center activity for students to show what they know.

    Vocabulary Activities:

    Print out the vocabulary posters in color or black and white. Post them on a bulletin board or around the classroom. Make copies of the Spotlight on Vocabulary. Have students write the definition or a sentence using the word.

    There are two different versions included:

    One has an empty box for students to draw their own illustrations related to the word.

    One has an image for them to color and visualize.

  • All About the Rainforest Unit

    All About the Rainforest Unit

    Learning about the Rainforest has never been so much fun! In this unit are 12 passages, organizers, comprehension and connection activities, vocabulary posters, flip up book, and so much more! Your students will love learning all the Rainforest with this Complete Activity Pack & Flip Book!

    The Amazon Rainforest is one of the most amazing places on Earth!

    This unit includes many authentic learning opportunities for the classroom including specialized vocabulary, a close up look at three unique animals found nowhere else, and a Save the Rainforest Flip Book!

    This Rainforest Activity Pack highlights many science topics such as:
    ⭐ Ecosystems
    ⭐ Photosynthesis
    ⭐ Deforestation
    ⭐ Camouflage
    ⭐ Animal Adaptations
    ⭐ Decomposition
    ⭐ Layers of the Rainforest
    ⭐ The Importance of the Amazon Rainforest
    ⭐ Poison Dart Frogs
    ⭐ Three Toed Sloths
    ⭐ Jaguars

    This pack includes everything you need to teach, investigate, and learn all about the Amazon Rainforest with informational articles on:
    ✔ Four Layers of the Rainforest,
    ✔ Awesome Animals
    ✔ Deforestation
    ✔ Ecosystem & Habitat
    ✔ Photosynthesis

    This unit includes lots of creative hands-on student activities including:
    ✔ Anticipatory Set with True/False Questions
    ✔ Rainforest Full-color Mini-book for guided reading
    ✔ Several Rainforest Informational articles with questions and scenes for students to connect and color.
    ✔ Rainforest CRQs
    ✔ Cloze Passages
    ✔ Vocabulary Posters
    ✔ Vocabulary Flip-Flaps
    ✔ Classroom Poster Set — great for bulletin boards!
    ✔ Guess What Layer it is?
    ✔ Plus a 5-page Save the Rainforest Flip Up Booklet
    ✔ For Elementary Grades – Second grade, Third grade, Fourth grade
    ✔ Common Core Aligned

    Be sure to check out the PREVIEW for more information