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This video, though it doesn't contain nature, would be something students would be constantly doing after being showed how. It gives the student an example of an optical illusion, and is fun. I think this could be used with nature by having the students draw something about their home environment or their favorite place.
5th Grade Hand Line Optical Art [Video file]. (2014, April 4). In YouTube.com. Retrieved November 30, 2016, from https://youtu.be/tpXtjgVYogg

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Last of Days of school fun project. This is my resource video toward the end of the last school day. Opt Art hand illustions

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This nonfiction book shows students how animals can be used in art. It has many examples of different types of art such as abstract, portraits, landscapes, and many more. The preview only gives three examples, but it is a larger book than that.
Merberg, J., & Bober, S. (2011). Animals in Art (Art from the Start). Downtown Bookworks.

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Find out more about Animals in Art by Julie Merberg, Suzanne Bober at Simon & Schuster. Read book reviews & excerpts, watch author videos & more.

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This fictional book about a boy who feels as though he has the worst teacher is a great book for teaching creativity with the arts. It allows students to see what the mind can do how it can be used to change real things into fun characteristics of a person or thing.
Brown, P. (2014). My Teacher is a Monster. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

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My Teacher Is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.) by Peter Brown - Books on Google Play

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My Teacher Is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.) - Ebook written by Peter Brown. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read My Teacher Is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.).

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Learning Standard: VA.1.4.3.B. Create an example of graphic art (e.g. Poster, illustration, advertisement, or greeting card)
This activity is an integrated activity for social studies that has students draw the state they are given, and turn it into a person and make up "facts" about the person.

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Summary:

Students will create an narrative within the shape of a state (or province) using personal experience. They will choose a state, review that state and draw a picture using the shape of the state as a template.

What You Need:

template of a state (we used Ohio)

pencils

crayons

colored pencils

large drawing or construction paper

What You Do:

1. Review state facts, whatever state you choose.

2. Review shape of the state.

3. Students draw the state on the upper left hand side of large drawing paper - allowing room for hair and a speech bubble to the right.

4. Encourage students to incorporate sentences inside the speech bubble:

Hello my name is _____.

I live in ______,city, state (ie: Dayton, Ohio).

I am good at ______.

My state is known for _______.

5. Students then detail their state head with facial features.

6. Encourage your students to really add their own personality to these wonderful heads.

Recommended Resources:
Coloring Castle (State Outline Coloring Pages)
http://www.coloringcastle.com/state_coloring_pages.html

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State Heads Lesson Plan -- Connecting Art and Geography - Math, Science, Geography, Language Arts - KinderArt

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Students will create an narrative within the shape of a state (or province) using personal experience. They will choose a state, review that state and draw a picture using the shape of the state as a template. template of a state (we used Ohio) pencils crayons colored pencils large drawing or construction paper Review state facts, whatever state you choose.

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Learning Standard: ELA.4.W.2.C.e use specific, relevant, and accurate words that are suited to the topic, audience, and purpose.
In this activity, students write a poem about their pets. The learn about making poems using similes, and make a personal poem about their own pets while drawing or painting a picture of their pets.

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Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

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Learning Standard: FA.1.4.3.A Create an original landscape.
Earth day is usually talked about in regular classes. However, the arts can be integrated into earth day by having the students make Earth day posters to show the affects of pollution on our planet.

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This video is a good resource for students to learn the food pyramid and how to use it. This will allow them be able to pick and choose better food options for themselves.

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Nutrition, Food Pyramid, Healthy Eating, Educational Videos for Kids, Funny Game for Children

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This non-fiction book is written by teachers, and is a summer physical and academic exercise book. It prepares students for the next school year, but also gives students different exercises to be healthy.
Teachers. (2011). Summer Fit (1st ed., Summer Fit). Summer Fit Learning

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Summer Fit Third to Fourth Grade: Math, Reading, Writing, Language Arts + Fitness, Nutrition and Values

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This fictional story about a girl who refused to brush her hair is a great book that uses humor to teach about hygiene. Hygiene is definitely an important aspect of health. It also has animals in a funny twist. A mouse moves in to hair, making her hair an actual "rat's nest."
Bernheimer, K. (2013). The Girl Who Wouldn't Brush her Hair. Schwartz & Wade.

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The Girl Who Wouldn't Brush Her Hair - Ebook written by Kate Bernheimer. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Girl Who Wouldn't Brush Her Hair.

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Health Activity Three: Farming is Important

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Health Activity Three: Farming is Important

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Learning Standard:  NHES.3 Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and services to enhance health.
This activity has students learn about farming and shows them why it is important. I could use this activity to show why keeping farm animals healthy is important, and transition into their own health. I really like this especially for the area we are in, because students may have family in the farming business and relate well to this.

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Farming Worksheet - Importance of Farming

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Health Activity Two: What Food Attracts Ants

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Health Activity Two: What Food Attracts Ants

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Learning Standard: ELA.3.B.4.4.c Explain how the author uses language to present information to influence what they reader thinks or does.
This activity is actually a science experiment  about what foods attract ants. I thought that this would also be a good lesson to see what foods students eat wth the most sugars, and then discuss why they are or aren't good for them. They could use the ants' favorite sweet foods as a topic to start the students thinking about what they are eating themselves. Ants like sweets to get energy, and that could be an example.

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What Foods Attract Ants?-A Hands-on Biology Experiment

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Students learn about ants and how they are able to locate food with this printable science activity. With this hands-on project, students monitor how ants respond to different household foods.

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Health Activity One: What comes from Where?

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Health Activity One: What comes from Where?

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Learning Standard:   NHES.1 Student will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease.
This activity shows students what food comes from plants and animals and introduces the food pyramid to younger students. Students complete a worksheet to show what they learned about food that comes from both.

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This lab activity provides students with the opportunity to determine whether foods come from plants or from animals, and introduces the food guide pyramid. Materials list, set-up instruction, worksheet, and answer key are provided.

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This realistic fiction book is one of my favorite books that was read to me in school. It teaches about the importance of the animals in the small town the main character moves to. It also teaches about different types of owls and would be a great book to use in lesson writing to factor in some social studies and ecology.
Hiaasen, C. (2005). Hoot. NY: Yearling.

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Social Studies Activity Three: Where do They Live?

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Social Studies Activity Three: Where do They Live?

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Learning Standard: ELA. 4.R.1.C.b text to world connections (text ideas and the world by demonstrating an awareness that literature reflects a culture and historic time frame).
This activity shows students where different types of birds live throughout the united states. It is a good activity that uses technology and worksheets so students can remain engaged in the activity. The students can use this to help them learn the states as well. I say this becasue students that connect to a bird will most likely remember the state where they usually live.

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State Birds Collage

Third graders can learn about the 50 US states and their state birds by making this collage. This social studies activity teaches kids about geography and different birds. For more on geography, check out these free activities.

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State Birds Collage Third graders can learn about the 50 US states and their state birds by making this collage. This social studies activity teaches kids about geography and different birds. For more on geography, check out these free activities.

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This nonfiction  book would be good for the farm concept. It talks about how animals are used in the workforce around the world, including farming.
Taylor, N., & Hamilton, L. (2013). Animals at Work (Vol. 16). Brill.

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Nik Taylor, Ph.D (2000), Manchester Metropolitan University, is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University in South Australia. She has published widely on human-animal relations, including Theorizing Animals (Brill, 2011) and Animals, Humans and Society (Lantern, 2013).

Lindsay Hamilton, Ph.D (2009), Keele University, is Lecturer in Management at Keele University in the United Kingdom. She is currently a co-editor of the Sage journal, Ethnography and has published a range of ethnographic articles on work and organization.

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Nik Taylor, Ph.D (2000), Manchester Metropolitan University, is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University in South Australia. She has published widely on human-animal relations, including Theorizing Animals (Brill, 2011) and Animals, Humans and Society (Lantern, 2013). Lindsay Hamilton, Ph.D (2009), Keele University, is Lecturer in Management at Keele University in the United Kingdom.

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Social Studies Activity Two: Prairie Dogs

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Social Studies Activity Two: Prairie Dogs

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Learning Standard: NCSS.G. K-12.5 Environment and Society
This activity gives students an opportunity to see different types of prairies and prairie dogs throughout the United States. They can work in partners and learn together to build social aspects within the activity.

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This lesson plan could be used as a great resource to incorporate animals using farming as the concept that ties them together. It has many different types of cultures and how they use animals in their own farming.
Goodie, M. (2000, January 1). #1481 Fun at The Farm. Retrieved October 17, 2016, from http://teachers.net/lessonplans/posts/1481.html

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Social Studies, level: Elementary
Posted Sat Jan 1 17:59:07 PST 2000 by Marcia Goudie ().
Materials Required: See below
Concepts Taught: Farm Theme

Fun at the Farm
Farm Activities

Group Activity:

Share the following information about cows.

oCows are female cattle. Males are called bulls and babies are called
calves.
oCows provide milk, which is the source of daily products, including cheese,
butter, and yogurt. oThe organ on a cow that holds her milk is called an
udder or a bag. oThere are many varieties of cattle.

Transition: Have the kids moo like cows as they move to the next activity.

Art: Ahead of time, cut sponges into chunks. Clip each chunk into a
spring-type clothespin. Pour Black paint into shallow dishes. Paint cow
spots
on large sheets of paper.

Science & Cooking: Make butter! Place some heavy cream in a baby food jar.
Have the kids shake the jar. If desired, mix in a pinch of salt and a few
drops of yellow food coloring. Spread the butter on crackers for kids to
taste. If you insert a clean marble into the jar, it will not need to be
shaken as long.

Make butter in film canisters. Write books that give each animal name, and
make corn husk dolls. We draw and write about our own balloon farm and make
scarecrow glyphs that relay info on our pets, milk likes/dislikes, and
gardens. Here are the goodies I have collected from different online groups
and stars. Here is a pig idea...it is a movement idea using the song
Hokey-Pokey. Have students stand in a circle and follow your lead.

Writing Activity: Ears of corns on stalks can be spread apart with writing
paper inside. The kids write one thing that is special about them selves on
the paper. We design our own scarecrows during this unit. We also make
butter
using heavy cream. We shake the cream in used, but clean, baby jars. We put
the butter on crackers.

Video: There is also a great video about farming called A Trip to the Farm.
It is very informational, but presented at a level that first graders grasp
and enjoy.

Science: We also learn how to plant seeds and how to take care of them. This
is a good time to read The Carrot Seed and teach sequencing. I also have
several file folder games that I use during this unit. Animal - mother and
baby match. A Math game where kids have to add correctly to get to the
silo...etc.

Social Studies Activities:

Books about Farms:

Teacher Resources

Cheryl Walsh Bellville- Farming Today
Egyptian Farmers- Jim Kerr
Farm Noises -Jane Miller
Farming- Dennis B Fradin
Farming -Gail Gibbons
Farming- Jacqueline Dineen
Farming- Sylvia Parkhurst
Food and Farming - Nigel Hawks
Food and Farming- John Becklake
Machines on the Farm- Hope Irwin Marston
The Farmer through History - Peter Chrisp
Tractors -Graham Richard
Yesterday's Way- Carol Rhoda

Farm Songs and Poetry

Here Is The Barn
(fingerplay)

A Horse
A horse can trot. A horse can run.
A horseback ride is lots of fun!

Goats
Nanny goat, billy goat. What do you say?
"Maa, maa", Silly goats, Run away!

The Cow
The cow is big. The cow says "moo".
The cow makes milk for me and you.

Pigs
Pigs can oink, pigs can snort.
Pigs are fat and kind of short.

Sheep
Sheep are quiet. Sheep are cute.
Sheep give wool to make a suit.

Geese
Geese can honk. Geese can squawk.
Geese can fly or take a walk!

Old Rooster
Old Rooster woke up just so he could say,
"How do you cock-a-doodle do today?"

The Farm
The farm has a cow and a horse and a pig.
And a sheep and a goat and a barn so big!

Continue the song and dance routine with the following verses:

You put your Left hoof in....
You put your right hamhock (hip) in...
You put your left hamhock in....
You put your snout in....
You put your curly tail in...

I have done some activities in connection with farm and scarecrows with the
poem/song "Ten Crows All Shiny Black"

It goes to the tune used with "Ten Green and Speckled Frogs"

Ten crows all shiny black,
Sat on a scarecrows back,
Eating some most delicious corn. Caw, Caw!
Scarecrow jumped and hollered Boo!
Scared one crow, away he flew,
Now there are nine black shiny crows. Caw, Caw!

DOWN ON GRANDPA'S FARM:
Oh we're on our way we're on our way ,on our way to Grandpa's farm.
We're on our way, we're on our way to Grandpa's farm.
(CHORUS)
1.Down on Grandpa's farm there is a big brown cow,
Down on Grandpa's farm there is a big brown cow.
The cow , she makes a sound like this: Moo! Moo!
The cow she makes a sound like this: Moo! Moo!(CHORUS)
2.Down on Grandpa's farm there is a little red hen.(CHORUS)
3.Down on Grandpa's farm there is a big black dog.(CHORUS)
4. Down on Grandpa's farm there is a funny white duck.(CHORUS)
5.Down on Grandpa's farm there is a fat pink pig.(CHORUS)
6. Down on Grandpa's farm there is a big brown horse.(CHORUS)
7. Down on Grandpa's farm there is a new spring lamb.(CHORUS).

We make a counting book, ten on first page, nine on second and so on.
We use fingerprints for the crows and draw beaks and feet.
I can't remember where I got it from but it is NOT original.

We also make small child size scarecrows instead of one large one by having
each student bring in one piece of clothing (child size) and then have
parent
helpers help each group of 4 or 5 stuff and put together the scarecrows.
Then we name them and each child gets a copy of their birth certificate. We
use large safety pins to hold each piece in place and us white t-shirt for
head and draw on features. Then the students create a story about their
scarecrow and dictate it to the parent helpers who copy them down to make
into a book that each child in the group gets and illustrates. It is kept
very short, just 4 or 5 pages. They love sharing the little scarecrow books
with the other classmates.

Build a scarecrow and making haystacks with chow mein noodles.

I like the Old MacDOnald song about vowels but I will change it just a
little
bit.
Old MacDonald had a farm, AEIOU.
ANd on his farm he had short a, AEIOU.
With an "aa" here(using the sound of short a), etc.
Do all the short vowels and then long vowels.

I would like to give credit to the following people who contributed to this
project. laangyal@juno.com, SEWREADIT@aol.com, clemsonbc@aol.com

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Lesson Plans: Fun At the Farm (Elementary, Social Studies)

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Social Studies, level: Elementary Posted Sat Jan 1 17:59:07 PST 2000 by Marcia Goudie (). Materials Required: See below Concepts Taught: Farm Theme Fun at the Farm Farm Activities Group Activity: Share the following information about cows. oCows are female cattle. Males are called bulls and babies are calledcalves.

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Social Studies Activity One: Going Places

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Learning Standard: 4.RI.6.A Compare cultural characteristics across historical time periods (e.g., language, celebrations, customs, holidays, artistic expression, food, dress, & traditions).
This map game could be used and mixed with animals. This is a good game that teaches students about things in every state that they come across. I could add animals to this game easily if needed by looking up common animals found in each state or even what are the most common pets in each state.

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Going Places

Now, teach your little ones all about the length and breadth of the country with the help of this exciting and engaging online social studies activity for kids! JumpStart's 'Going Places' is a board game that is actually a free, printable geography activity in disguise. Watch your kids engage with it and learn at the same time!

Also check out our other printable social studies activities for kids now!

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Fiction. This book shows students a little about time, money, and measurement. It uses humor and animals. To keep students engaged within the story while teaching them about the content within.
Axelrod, A. (1997). Pigs Will be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money. Hong Kong: Aladdin.

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Math Activity Three: TECHnically Speaking

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Math Activity Three: TECHnically Speaking

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Learning Standard: ELA.1.4.B.f Using conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases.
This interactive website allows students to go throughout it and search for the answers to the animal fact questions. It also has speed and lifespans.

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archive of daily questions and answers about animal math from the math cats' magic chalkboard

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This book gives students facts about cats and dogs that could help them with both activity one and two. I chose this book because most students will likely choose to do their activity over cats or dogs.
Bissonette, F. (2014). Cats & Dogs. Francois Bissonnette.

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Learning Standard:  NCTM.M.3-5. Understand the need for measuring with standard units and become familiar with standard units in the customary and metric systems.
This activity gives students the opportunity to see the different life spans of different types of pets. It goes along well with activity one because it expands on it and allows the students to build a bar graph based on the life spans of the pets they may want.

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This website has many math-related interactive games. It has many different mathematical subjects. It can be used for other grades  as well, which is even better for future use.
4th Grade Math. (2016). Retrieved October 24, 2016, from http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/4th-grade-math.html

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Fourth grade math is a level where more and more complex terms and concepts come into play. Students are capable of understanding more involved operations and will dive into things like long division. They'll need to know quite a few math terms, and a good understanding of these will help them move along in the curriculum.

Students will learn more about expressions and equations, using them to represent number relationships and show unknown quantities. They'll learn about properties of addition and multiplication, including the commutative and associative properties. It's also important at this level that students have a good understanding of how to collect, display, and interpret data. They'll need to be able to use frequency tables, bar graphs, line graphs, and stem-and-leaf plots. Knowing how to draw conclusions from data is important as well. Students will also continue to use the language of statistics and probability. This includes terms like certain and likely.

Fourth graders will learn more about the properties of shapes and will use fourth grade math vocabulary to identify and describe geometric shapes and figures. They'll also work with lines, angles, and symmetry. Coordinate geometry becomes a bigger part of the curriculum in fourth grade and students will be asked to find and plot ordered pairs on a coordinate grid.

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Fourth grade math is a level where more and more complex terms and concepts come into play. Students are capable of understanding more involved operations and will dive into things like long division. They'll need to know quite a few math terms, and a good understanding of these will help them move along in the curriculum.

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Learning Standard:  NBT.4.A.5 Demonstrate fluency with addition and subtraction of whole numbers.
This learning activity has students add up everything needed to care for a pet. This allows them to show fluency while also learning just how much their parents and/or family will have to spend in order to care for them. The students will also see just how much care the pet will need that doesn't cost money, but time instead.

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EC.3.C.4.b Identify specialized structures and senses and describe how they help animals survive in environment.
An activity students could do that incorporates animals is classification. This activity allows students to use food to get them thinking about different classifications. Then they start thinking about actual animal classifications as they go along in the activity. This activity could be a unit on its on if needed. I think it is cute and could be
modified to be taught during any time of the year. I always enjoy food, and so do students because we get to eat it in the end. http://www.education.com/activity/article/delicious-classification/

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A good resource for students to see how animals act in their own habitats without taking them to a zoo (if one is unavailable) would be to bring the zoo to the students by showing them live animal shows through zoo websites.
Animal Shows. (2016, December 6). Retrieved September 9, 2016, from http://curiodyssey.org/activities/animal-shows/

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A good non-fiction book to go along with the rainforest food web activity wood be In  the Rainforest by Tom Pipher. It shows the ecosystem of the rainforest and the different animals as well as where they live.
Pipher, T. (1999). In the Rainforest. Bothell, WA: Lands Inn Publishing.

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Science Activity Two: Rainforest Food Web

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Learning Standard: 4.R.1.B.f  using conversational, general academic, and domain specific words and phrases.
This worksheet helps students identify animals of the rainforest and the food chain that goes along with them. It teaches them how animals live together and serve each other by feeding each other in the circle of life.

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Explore the circle of life! This beautiful worksheet shows the web of animals who live in the rainforest. Help complete the circle by filling in the arrows.

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A good fiction book about animals and science is Charlie's Raven by Jean Craighead George. It is about a boy and a raven that imprints on him. I thought this would be a good resource because it gives an insight to ways birds could act.
George, J. C. (2006). Charlie's Raven. New York, NY: Dustin Children's Books.

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So Charlie brings home Blue Sky, a baby raven with a big personality. Blue Sky imprints on Charlie and becomes a great friend and a source of amazement to the whole family. Granddad, an old naturalist, is intrigued, and he does seem to get better-at least for a while.

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Science Activity One: Build a Bird's Nest

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Science Activity One: Build a Bird's Nest

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Learning Standard: NGSS.4.LS1-1 Plants and animals have both internal and external structures that serve various functions in growth, survival, behavior, and reproduction.
This activity, although it says for Kindergarten, I think would be excellent for any grade. The activity has students build a birdnest  from natural material they find in their own yards. This will have the students thinking critically about what will make a sturdy nest and allow students to see the different types of materials that birds use to make shelter in each student's different location.  You could even have the students remake their nests as they go about learning.

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Teach the kids how a bird's nest is made by making your own nests using only natural materials!